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If home-produced, rough-around-the-edges indie-pop is your bag, then Quiet Safe Nothings by Gilboa could be right up your ally. For those who appreciate melody and intention over execution, tracks like opener ‘Quiet’ and ‘Away’ will please the most, while my personal favourite ‘Song in Open D’ will find fans with listeners who value honesty and vulnerability in theirContinue Reading

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Photo by Alex Plesovskich In the Fade – The Lost Days folk In the Fade, the most recent single from Californian folkies The Lost Days, is a wholesome affair marked by heavily strummed acoustic guitar, loose tambourine, understated vocals, and sliding bass licks. The girl/boy harmonization of the vocals create aContinue Reading

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The recent explosion of ambient music is making it hard to weed the great from the good (all music is good, objectively). Thankfully many resources exist as necessary sieves, one such is the always trustable A Closer Listen. A recent perusal of their site led me to stumble upon nocny, a ‘heavilyContinue Reading

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A riveting experiment at the intersection of spoken word, performance art, and electronica, Tongues by  Tanya Tagaq is an absorbing, challenging, and often uncomfortable listening experience. The imagery throughout the album is fiercely somatic, using the metaphor of tongue removal as a symbol of language and culture loss at the hands ofContinue Reading

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Robert Stillman is an American experimental jazz practitioner currently based in the United Kingdom. This transplant of continents has led the artist to some self-reflection on the philosophy of nationality on What Does It Mean To Be American? Sprawling opener Cherry Ocean is a brooding piano-based piece, Stillman’s velvety vocals resting atop the sporadicContinue Reading

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Photo by Inga Seliverstova No Contact – Heart Shaped indie/pop Belfast based outfit Heart Shaped (the dream pop project of Texan native Kendall Bousquet) recently released the colourful single No Contact on Poison Moon Records and Unique Technique Records. Ethereal vocals delivered with equal measures of attitude and grace soar over the grittyContinue Reading

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 Canadian/Japanese electronic music label/website ADSR Collective have unveiled the first installment in their new ‘Sound Stories’ series.  This carefully shot documentary is an intimate glimpse into the passionate pursuits of modular synth producer Hikari Instruments, who are based in Tokyo, and who offer some philosophical nuggets.  It’s not easy toContinue Reading

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Photo by Lisa Fotios     Triangle, L’Orage (2022) jazz/afro/funk Hailing from Switzerland, L’Orage are a jazz ensemble operating at the intersection of classic and progressive styles of jazz, mixing the results with a dash of afro funk for good measure. While opener Pentatetrahydratonic is a straightforward free jazz affair, tracks suchContinue Reading