Noise
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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…
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Polar Seas Recordings has two handsome cassette/download releases out June 2: the aforementioned Echoic Architecture by Endurance and this new one from Brad Deschamps. Those who follow the label will recognize Deschamps as the label’s curator and as half of North Atlantic Drift. This iridescent beauty is his eighth release under the anthéne name.…
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A third of the way into Joshua Stefane’s new 60-minute recording under the name Endurance, it appears certain we’re in for a purely minimalist tour of his favourite drone sounds. This is by no means a criticism. The globetrotting Canadian researcher and translator who now calls Nara, Japan home can be fairly credited with…
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I’m worried about James Beardmore’s teeth. I cannot be certain that there is a problem. His dentist may well read this and lodge a complaint with the BADD PRESS client experience department. I’m betting that won’t happen though, after hearing Beardmore’s new single under the name CARES. If ever there was a track that captured…
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We have been instructed to listen to ps’s new album at 3 am, alone. Filipe Cruz, the man behind the initials, offers just one note of caution: “use headphones.” It’s not bad advice. There is a lot to listen to here, on this 11th album from ps. Volatile is a detailed, intricate work that…
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