Kevin Press
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Japanese electronic music and sound artist Kee Yawne’s debut recording landed earlier this month. It’s a consistently strong effort. The eight pieces featured point to a level of compositional maturity seldom found on first-time recordings. Yawne’s release is filed under TMRPOE (an acronym for “the most remote place on earth”). Keep Sleeping is suitably titled…
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Whatever you’re planning to add to your music collection next, put it on hold. The new Future Astronauts compilation, Vessels V, is the best thing going right now. Bar none. This fifth album in the U.K. label’s series of lo-fi ambient comps boasts 15 tracks, every one of them a stunner. I emailed Future Astronauts’…
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The lead single from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s 13th studio disc drops today. “La Mitrailleuse” is a vintage slice of the electropop that made the Wirral, Merseyside duo rich and famous in the 1980s. The title is French for “the machinegun,” an all-too apt reference these days. It features looped recordings of gun and…
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Austin, Texas has long had a world-class music scene, the sort more often associated with global centres than with cities home to fewer than a million souls. While it may be best known for country and other roots-based music, there’s a good deal more under the surface. Colin Andrew Sheffield, chief proprietor of the Elevator…
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Once a punk, always a punk. Richard Melville Hall’s new side hustle dropped its second LP today. You can find both Moby & The Void Pacific Choir albums FOC via WeTransfer. Hard copies will be available June 16. Meantime, check out this typo-ridden “press release” over the name John Miller. (Credit Ben Kaye at Consequence…
