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Encounters: William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops
It was mid-summer, and the evening sky was a deep cerulean blue despite the late hour. From the living room of my old Glasgow flat, I looked down on the Maryhill Road as it ran towards St George’s Cross subway… Continue reading
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Deli Girls – I Don’t Know How to Be Happy (Review)
“Remind them that they will never be as angry as the rest of us.” So screams Danny Orlowski on ‘Here We Go Again’, a track appearing three-quarters of the way through Deli Girls’ second album, I Don’t Know How to… Continue reading
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Caterina Barbieri – Ecstatic Computation (Review)
Two eyes, superimposed on a cold metallic surface. At first glance the image appears depthless, the lifeless gaze of a clay sculpture, flat and unseeing. Only with closer inspection does the landscape appear: snow-tipped mountains; light breaking through a watery… Continue reading
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Molly Nilsson – 2020 (Review)
Encountering Molly Nilsson’s back-catalogue for the first time can be a daunting experience. With nine albums in as many years, each bearing analogous black-and-white cover designs, it is hard to know exactly where to start. Indeed, the uniform aesthetic of… Continue reading
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Special Request – Bedroom Tapes (Review)
With four albums scheduled for release this year alone, Paul Woolford, aka. Special Request, can perhaps be forgiven for returning to some early demos on his latest release, Bedroom Tapes. Selected from lost cassettes rediscovered during a house-move, the compiled… Continue reading
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