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Occasionally something comes along that inspires us to put pen to paper. Maybe some great audio, an inspirational character, record label or event that we feel the need to shout about a little bit? We also put our daily recommendations here for the RSS feed crew.

16/1/2021 0 Comments

beautify JUnkyards - Cosmorama (Ghost Box)

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The new Beautify Junkyards LP for Ghost Box is a gloriously instant hit. Immediately you're launched into their psyche pop, acid folk freakiness with layer upon layer of sonic consciousness to explore & barely a moment to reflect until the final note has faded.
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The fourth album for the Lisbon based band and their second on Ghost Box following on from The Invisible World of Beautify Junkyards in 2018. Cosmorama is a beautifully crafted and lavishly produced adventure into tropicalia tinged psychedelic dream pop. Like a hallucinogenic fusion of Os Mutantes and Broadcast. Music that’s deeply influenced by Portuguese and Brazilian vocal traditions; gauzy layers of male and female vocals shift dreamlike against a backdrop of masterly acoustic musicianship, complex percussion and haunted electronics making this album perfectly at home in the world of Ghost Box records.
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15/1/2021 0 Comments

Conny Frishchauf - Die Drift (Bureaub B)

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Familiar synth sounds, pleasingly & inventively arranged with underground echoes & a playful pop twist, topped by Conny Frischauf's softly sung & spoken Austrian vocals, released on Bureau B, should see you nicely through your end of week undertakings.
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Viennese artist Conny Frischauf’s music is a whirl of Kraut, leftfield electronica and synth pop. She playfully shines a new light on on tradition to create a fresh, contemporary sound. Having released a brace of EPs – Effekt & Emotion“ (International Major Label, 2018) and Affekt & Tradition“ (Kame House, 2019) – Frischauf now presents her debut album, Die Drift.
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14/1/2021 0 Comments

Wil Bolton - Cumulus Sketches (Home Normal)

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Good to see Home Normal kicking off 2021 in style with Wil Bolton's suite of field recording sprinkled, drifting ambient textures that are perfect for lockdown ceiling gazing as well as daydreaming of warm spring days & the appearance of nature's green shoots.
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Following up from 2014's 'Bokeh', Home Normal welcomes back Wil Bolton. 'Cumulus Sketches’ is an album of fragile, drifting ambient structures for daydreaming and cloud-watching. Pastoral analogue synthesizer melodies and effects pedal textures are intertwined with rural and urban environmental sounds recorded in South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka.

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Written and recorded by Wil Bolton
Cover art by Stijn Hüwels
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
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13/1/2021 0 Comments

Aardvarck - Monkey Formula (Bandcamp Self Release)

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Dutch maestro Aardvarck has produced more (DJ) secret weapons than all the world's superpowers put together, so it's great to hear him give the club sub-woofers a break & turn his hand to some classical caressed, opera flirting, Asiatic temple tinged, beat-lite, synth soaked ambient dub.
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12/1/2021 0 Comments

Bobby Lee - Shakedown in Slabtown (NATURAL HISTORIES)

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Sounding like a peyote popping, double dropping Deadhead on a dusty desert bender, Sheffield's Bobby Lee luckily doesn't let the North of England's lack of wide open sun dried planes get in the way of creating some of the best cosmic country & swampy astral Americana around.
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Recorded to ¼” tape, Shakedown In Slabtown is a sunscorched ramble through widescreen guitar instrumentalism, down-home gospel, Kosmische repetition and swampy country choogle with the hiss left in.

Bobby is joined by Guy Whittaker (Sharron Kraus, Jim Ghedi, Big Eyes) on drums and percussion, Mark Armstrong on electric bass and keys plus a primitive drum machine groove last heard on Suicide's debut or JJ Cale’s early records.

Owing as much to The Durutti Column as Ry Cooder, the album takes in stripped back traditionals, fuzzed out folk funk, Hired Hand-style acoustic vignettes and wide eyed rural rock. In the grand power-trio tradition, the album closes with a live rave up; an 11min+ elongated deconstruction of Warren Zevon’s Join Me in LA, equal parts Dr John’s Gris Gris, E2E4 and CCR vamp.

Bobby Lee - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Drum Machine
Mark Armstrong - Bass Guitars, Keys, Post Production
Guy Whittaker - Drums, Percussion
Ric Booth - Fiddle on How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
Brian Ellis - Percussion

Engineered and Mixed on 1/4" Tape by Brian Ellis at Portland Works, Sheffield, Summer 2019.

Mastered by Dean Honer

Artwork by Santi Oviedo.
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