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Hjaltalin ‘Sweet Impressions’ (Borgin)
Adding positive column inches whilst ruminating on iceland’s f ery output, we declare these swooning folksters as the next in line to erupt from their hotbed of restless talents. think belle and sebastian surf ng on molten melodies and powered by the air from their svelte wind section.
UNKLE ‘Natural Selection (Future Beat Alliance Remix)’ (Surrender All)
Lavelle and Clements relish their robustness. each album is a subtle shift, and whilst for a while this may have confused, they now pull away from any cliches and niche and stand for dextrous and decent dance music that’ll sweep record boxes along in their slipstream.
Solvent ‘Loss For Words’ (Ghostly International)
Jason Amm is a new romantic trapped in his Moogy hardwares. his soul is splattered over frazzled circuitry of a retro dream and his songs echo round the silicone landscape that are his playground and his prison: after six years away his darker electro ballads delve into dystopia.
Dam Mantle ‘Rebong’ (Halleluwah Hits)
Second wave of Glasgow wonky crew? It seems so. HudMo and Rustie have a young team snapping after their boarding passes and Dam Mantle’s oft-kilter beats and eddying harps suggest that scotland’s delightfully focused scene continues to feed down-wards and incubate searing visions of sound.
Walls ‘Hang Four’ (Banjo Or Freakout Remix)’ (Kompakt)
Instrumental noise pop from these Hackney neighbours will whisk you miles outside the M25 as accidental krautrockers get seriously emotive with their pedals and synths. Here alessio (aka Banjo Or Freakout) re-rubs his collaborative juices for a spangled and ambient drift through lost frequencies.
Rudi Zygadlo ‘Resealable Friendship’ (Planet Mu)
Yet another Glasgow party peep smashes together half-step, ’80s pop and the spirit of dying churches that bookend the view from his studio window to serve up a vision of Squarepusher and Dabrye bickering over time signatures. Dressed as nuns. Tripping. Zygadlo could be the next one to fly.
Kingbastard ‘Multicolour Octopus Ink Nightmares’ (Herb Recordings)
Kingbastard looks to be anything but a bandit. Instead, he’s one of the most promising electronic composers of the last few years and here blends untreated vocals with more traditional instrumentation to hint at being far more than the consumate IDM freak we took him to be.
Jamie Lidell ‘Compass’ (Warp)
On the title track from his latest album Lidell has brought light across his personal darkness and faced his musical schizophrenia. Here he comes out of the woods knowing enough about himself to know it’s all good and music can take him anywhere.
Male Bonding ‘Not Long’ (Sub Pop)
London’s lords of the lo-fi keep things off-track with this driving ode to basement energy. Dripping spirit and the soul of the underground, there’ll be generations of music fans queueing up in perpetuity to tap into their mainlining of raw electricity and trashed up sonics. Check them out.
Steve Mason ‘All Come Down’ (Double Six)
Haunted in vocal and drenched in spirit; as the former Beta Band singer and sometime King Biscuit Time character, Mason certainly knows a thing or two about forging catchy dream pop. ‘All Come Down’ lazily soars as he wonders where the buck truly stops. Right here, Steven.
Slash ‘We’re All Gonna Die Feat. Iggy Pop’ (Roadrunner)
No-one gets the same sear from their guitar as slash. and no-one’s as boisterous up front as iggy pop. dream team glean here then as two heavyweights combine to close off another essential cross section. get this shit playing really fucking loud!
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