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Maiya Blaney – And

Maiya Blaney describes her second album A Room With A Door That Closes as “a love letter to her blue,” an emotional state that she defines as “a kinetic, intense, and dark energy that needs to be expressed as soon as it is felt.” The eleven songs on the album span radioactive kiss offs, sorrowful meditations on yearning, and gossamer reveries about self image, with the stand-out And moving through pitch-shifted drone, majestic strings and soft guitar over the course of its 6+ minutes.

https://maiyablaney.bandcamp.com/album/a-room-with-a-door-that-closes

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Buscabulla – Divino Tesoro

Se Amaba Así – which loosely translates to “The way love was” – sees Raquel Berrios and Luis Del Valle Buscabull devoting their second album to the examination of modern love and the myriad strains of Latin music to explore their struggles as both artists and a romantic couple. It’s darker in tone that their debut Regresa but no less captivating.

https://buscabulla.bandcamp.com/album/se-amaba-as

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Leon Bridges – Hold On

Bridges' sophomore album Good Thing reflects the singer's sonic maturation.

Leon Bridges wrote this a decade ago around the time of his fantastic debut LP Coming Home, but it’s only just seeing the light of day. Nostalgic country-soul stylings from one of the best sounding voices in the business.

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Lucy Gooch – Night Window Part One

On her debut album Desert Window, Lucy Gooch stays true to her electronic foundations, while incorporating more acoustic instrumentation and digging deeper into her folk roots through songwriting. At the heart of Lucy’s music is her rapturous, at times operatic vocal, with which she bring to the fore more than with previous releases. The result is described as “an atmospheric balance between Kate Bush and Cocteau Twins harmonies” which is risky ground with which to invite comparison; the fact that I’m not mad about it shows just how good this album is.

https://lucygooch.bandcamp.com/album/desert-window

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36 & zakè – Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel III

In the last few years, 36 has become one of my favourite artists, although I became a fan after he started his Statis Sounds… series with zakè, so don’t feel like I’ve been a part of that particular journey. Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel III is the final part of the trilogy, made up of two long pieces: “Final Approach” and “Blue New World.”

As with the first two volumes, it’s cinematic in scope and carefully paced, built around slow-moving drones, soft static, and layered synth work. “Final Approach” includes some striking use of low-end and piano, while “Blue New World” leans into heavier, darker textures, and there’s even a nod to doom and drone influences in places, though still within the ambient framework. It’s an immersive final chapter to the series.

https://3six.bandcamp.com/album/stasis-sounds-for-long-distance-space-travel-iii

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Margaux Gazur – Agata

I was slightly obsessed with Smallville about 15 years ago, so it’s comforting to know that not much has changed in terms of the music they’re putting out in the intervening years. Margaux Gazur’s new LP Blurred Memories is dusty, low-key, slightly eeire, hypnotic house and I can’t get enough of its opening track.

https://smallville-records.bandcamp.com/album/smallville-lp-18-margaux-gazur-blurred-memories

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Romance – End Titles

Romance’s latest album, Love Is Colder Than Death, is perhaps their bleakest to date. From the ghostly, pitched down vocals on opener Too Much Love to End Titles, the final (and most striking) track, the album is drenched in not just melancholy, but misery. And I love it. End Titles shares much of its DNA with The Caretaker’s ballroom deconstructions, but without dropping entirely into despair – although it does get pretty close. Majestically moody stuff.

https://youmustrememberthis.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-colder-than-death

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Not Marshall – UNKNOWN PRODIGY

Pretty sure I write a variation on this every time I post a Not Marshall track, but it is staggering they don’t get more attention. At time of write they have one (!) follower on Soundcloud and get 56 monthly listeners on Spotify. And I don’t think they even have a Bandcamp account. A ludicrous state of affairs. Their latest LP ELLIX is another masterclass in icy ambient and drone, even swerving into more trancey textures a la 36 and Lee Gamble. Should be massive, never will be 😦

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Smerz – But i do

Slickly detached bedroom pop and electronic excursions from Norwegian outfit Smerz, taken from their new album Big city life. But i do has an almost Massive Attack-esque swagger about it, but with a touch of humour in both the vocals and synth work replacing 3D and Daddy G’s dour delivery.

https://smerzforyou.bandcamp.com/album/big-city-life

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Night Tapes – pacifico

Night Tapes boldly go where quite a few have been before, mining Souls of Mischief’s seminal classic 93 til Infinity for their latest single pacifico, the third drop from their upcoming album portals/priorities which is coming in September. It’s pretty lush.

https://nighttapesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/portals-polarities