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Casha Mour - AAOO (Self Release) [lo fi electronica]
"late night, big city tower block electronica drenched in pleasing distortion and static, coupled with a flickering fluorescent lit ambience"
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 211 min read


Lucrecia Dalt - A Danger to Ourselves (RVNG INTL.) [Alternative Pop]
"balances Dalt’s stubborn experimentalism with a more accessible pop sheen, but ultimately it’s a triumph for perseverance and time honing her studio and song craft"
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 202 min read


Modern Nature - The Heat Warps (Bella Union) [Alt Pop]
"worked on stripping down the sound without sacrificing the message or artistic vision, and only gone and made a genuine alt-pop album"
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 162 min read


Hussain Bokhari - Possessions (Mood Hut)
"Lovely all-rounder album on a mellow, lo-fi, slacker-balearic tip."
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 121 min read


Shrunken Elvis - Shrunken Elvis (Western Vinyl)
"this album will satiate the outsider demands of old heads and provide a gateway to the counter cultural sounds of fifty or sixty years ago for a new generation"
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 92 min read


Amble - the places across the water (Home Normal)
"The playing is pleasingly minimal and melodically ambiguous, always stopping just short of tired old tropes or overly familiar progressions"
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 81 min read


Lagoss & Abagwagwa - Island Slang (Discrepant)
"constructing a barrage of polyrhythmic percussion and layering the highly flammable rhythms with deviant dark room rave primed electronica and low frequency pressure,"
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 292 min read


Francesca Marongiu -Still Forms in Air (Umor Rex)
"inspired by mid-1980s Japanese new age and ambient music, otherwise known as kankyō ongaku (environmental music), and less directly by vintage Italian experimental music"
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 252 min read


SYLIANRUE - Reflection (Self Release)
a gentle, graceful and ever so lovely ambient neoclassical arrangement that should be on every introvert's contemplation playlist.
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 222 min read


Olli Aarni - Dimension Scrolling (Mondoj)
"It’s a painstakingly constructed soundscape with a childlike playfullness to it and a soothing method to its minutai laden madness"
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 182 min read


kita kouhei - 北航平 - Idealism Ⅲ (Neuf)
"Kouhei naturally uses a more acoustic, percussive sound palette of mini-rattles, quick shakes and one hit wonders, the compositions are equally as far-out"
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 162 min read


Bonuru - Thin Places (Blue Adventure)
"the horns in sweet unity repeating a pleasingly restrained refrain that synergises with the repeated minimal guitar motif that acts as the tracks ever present driving force"
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 132 min read


Almost An Island - Almost An Island (PITP)
"The album is a collaborative triumph that blurs the lines between song and soundscape, and might even be that rare thing, an ambient project that looks, as well as sounds good on a stage."
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 122 min read


Raúl Cantizano & David Cordero - Aunque llegue la mañana (Noray)
" the album fittingly weaves its way along dusty, rosemary strewn, electroacoustic Andalusian paths, planting the seed of a new genre that we can only hope germinates in the region’s sun baked landscape. "
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 42 min read


prepare thyself - void jazz (Reptilian Snack)
"the jam session meets soothing psyche rock meets shoegaze meets space rock of “orbital decay” as the boys once again lull you into a false sense of psychedelic security before testing your lysergic limits"
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 23 min read


Farah Kaddour & Marwan Tohme - Ghazel (Ruptured)
"this album, recorded between the Tunefork studio in Beirut and Tohme's home in the Lebanese mountains, is a perfect melting pot of rural, urban, traditional and innovative."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 312 min read


Charbel Haber, Nicolás Jaar and Sary Moussa - Crashing waves dance to the rhythm set by the broadcast journalist revealing the tragedies of the day (Ruptured)
"This is a heavy album, but what would you expect from a recording utilising Tunefork Studios in Beirut as a conduit to remotely unite these artists during the Israeli aggression/response (delete as applicable)"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 302 min read


Ben Varian & Sarah Safaie - Ark's Joy (Self Release)
"Far-out funkiness and some cosmic bump is the order of the day with "scampi strut" with Varian setting the keyboard controls for the heart of the sun"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 292 min read


Eeyun & The Co-Operators - Dub Over Yonder (Waggle)
“Last Night’s Dub” sees another heavy riddim test your speakers, and trust me this album won’t be kind to lower quality hi-fi gear
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 282 min read


ghost and tape - Pardinyas (Dauw)
"despite my natural inclination towards the nonabrasive, palliative end of the ambient spectrum this is something of a Thai massage, a mildly unsettling but ultimately relaxing affair, and I like it a lot."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 231 min read


Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Different Rooms (International Anthem)
"The new album sees these studio neighbours embarking on another ethereal voyage of discovery to the land where ambient, new age, minimalism and classical meet"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 202 min read


Hamid Reza Behzadian - Blues for Leila (Self Release)
"artfully fusing the sounds of his harmonica, both Indian and Western slide guitars and Iranian folk music."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 182 min read


R&D - I'll Send You A Sign (Ruination)
!This album is perfect start of the day music, just as well really as I’m writing about it at 5.45am."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 142 min read


Smokey Cake - Casa Nueva (Self Release)
"If you want a good natured fusion of throwback chill-out, with a cosmic vibe and a psychedelic twist that will sound great over the summer then look no further."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 112 min read
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