I don’t even know what this is really and I can’t find anything about it online other than that’s it a project of Luke Wyatt and Jessi Long, but it’s incredible.
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Her Blur – People Of The Red Blur
Tag: post rock
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The Orielles – The Improvisation 001
I’m going to Simple Things Festival in a few months, so have been doing the usual things of obsessively listening to every single artist billed. This includes The Orielles; a band whose name I recognise but have never previously listened to. Taken from their 2022 album album Tableau, The Improvision 001 is utterly brilliant, almost unclassifiable and has been on constant repeat for the last few days. And yes, I appreciate this came out several years ago, but also: the past is a largely safe and friendly place that I enjoy exploring.
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Kathryn Mohr – Waiting Room
Written and recorded in a repurposed fish-packaging factory in the remote Icelandic village of Stöðvarfjörður, Kathryn Mohr’s Waiting Room is an eerie and intimate exploration of solitude. Her debut LP for The Flenser, it’s sparse yet deeply affecting, built from skeletal guitar lines, occasional piano, and field recordings that capture Iceland’s stark beauty. Songs drift between ghostly folk and surrealistic soundscapes, with Mohr’s vocals hovering between detached murmurs and visceral intensity.
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Milan W. – Ballad
Milan W.’s new album Leave Another Day feels like the culmination of 16 years weaving his way through projects like Crumar Young, Mittland Och Leo, Speedqueen, and Beach. Across 12 tracks, he distills dusky country, noir jazz, and indie-pop melancholia into a cohesive, dreamlike whole. His voice – weightless yet commanding – hovers in perfect suspension, threading through warm synth tones and intricate textures with the grace of an old soul navigating new terrain.
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Slowdive – kisses – sky ii (Grouper Remix)
Now this was an unexpected delight. Says Liz Harris of the experience: “Making music was only an idea in my head when I first fell in love with Slowdive. What a strange dream all these years later to work with them. This track was such a lush pop hit to start, I just tried to boost and smear those gauzy highs and fields of dreamy texture, and Rachel’s ethereal vocals. Added a touch of tape, Wurlitzer, and space echo too. It was a pleasure to work on.”
Grouper’s celestial interpretation was accompanied by a Daniel Avery remix, which is also very good, but this is the one for me.
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Mk.gee – Lonely Flight
Mk.gee’s LP Two Star & The Dream Police is the Take Care of 2024, and his latest single Lonely Flight continues his sadboy reflections in impeccable fashion.
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Mica Levi – slob air
Mica Levi makes their Hyperdub debut with the 12-minute slob air, an amalgamation of dream pop, post rock and shoegaze and among the most accessible, warm pieces of music they’ve ever produced. As you’d expect from someone renowned for soundtrack work it has a cinematic quality, but it also sounds contained and personal; a little nugget of time and place that calls to mind both Dean Blunt and John Murphy.
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Loma – How It Starts
Loma’s 2020 album Don’t Shy Away was one of the best of the year: its somewhat paranoid but ultimately reassuringly intimacy the perfect companion for heading into a winter of lockdown bleakness. Four years later we now have the follow up How Will I Live Without A Body, and while the overall atmosphere hasn’t changed drastically – recording techniques include using the ruin of a 12th-century chapel as a reverb chamber – I’m not sure it quite reaches the insular beauty of it’s predecessor. How It Starts is lovely though.
There’s surprisingly little online about Joanne Robertson and Dean Blunt’s new collaborative EP Backstage Ravers, save for a glowing RA review and an enthusiastic Reddit thread. Perhaps that’s expected from the famously publicity shy artists, but they really are making us work for it. Robertson takes the lead here with Blunt lurking in the distant background. Hazy, occasionally discordant and in a questionable stage of completion, the eight songs here are nevertheless completely beguiling.
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Maria BC – Taper
The first new music since the release of her excellent 2023 album Spike Field, Taper was written and recorded around two years ago, and is “about searching for someone who doesn’t want to be found and mourning a future foreclosed. grief and longing, basically…”. Bleak! And beautiful!
The Predatory Wasp 