Singles & EPs Round up - January 6, 2022

Katherine de Rosset - Meditation As (Self Release)

Gentle, soft to the touch ambient looping from multi-disciplinary artist de Rosset. Not only is this destined to sooth minds its new age of New Age vibrations might just have healing properties as well. Lovely stuff.

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Heka - No One (Fire Talk)

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One of my favourite urban folk popsters is back on another leftfield singer songwriter mission to charm and disarm as she sweetly & saliently offers advice on affairs of the heart,  popping it in a  lo-fi frame that perfectly juxtaposes her sweet tones.

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Alexander Brume - Illusion (No Format!)

I'm a sucker for a French vocal and here sultry late night bar  song meet the sound of the youth controlled streets, accentuated by some some glitchy classical meets jazz production from Brume. Looks like all involved are just starting out, so stay tuned.

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Eat My Butterfly - Labalamer (Shika Shika)

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I'm not sure if Eat My Butterfly is some sort of euphemism, but either way it makes me chuckle. Couple that with the fact that they also make some forward thinking globetronica with inventive production twists and turns, iced with some lovely vocals and they get my full support.

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The Three Lives - Mud & Flame (Full dose)

I'm a sucker for some digi dub and when it's anchored by teeth rattling electro bass and morphing the dub essentials into pleasing new shapes - originally the whole point of dub, rather than just slapping on some echo then I'm all in.

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Schakt - Ur periferin (Feeder)

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This was a pleasant discovery during my digital musical travels as I wasn't aware of Feeder Recordings and it seems like this is Schakt's first release - a double digging win, but that would be immaterial if the laid back genre fluid cinematic stylings weren't both reassuringly familiar and pleasingly fresh.

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Dakota Suite - Forever Breathes (Self Release)

I'd forgotten about Dakota Suite, somehow lost in the constant music deluge I guess, but it's great to hear the masters of melancholy again, this time using acoustic guitar to indulge in some minimal late night existential musing.

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EL O - Bats Toi! (My Bags)

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Medline has been a bit too quiet of late so it was nice to hear one of my favourite French beatmakers back and fusing the psychedelic sounds of Japan with his cultured old school beat aesthetic to propel the underground flow of EL O to a higher plane.

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Holovr - Ethereal Forces (Indole)

This is not one for the restless attention deficit disordered listener as the four tracks come in longer than most LPs but if you need some deep hypnotic laid back electronic house transmissions to slow dance and lose yourself in for a bit then hit that play button.

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