This promo is like a (doubtless unintentional) Dutch take on those Godspunk compilations from Pumf records in Blackpool (unintentional because I would run naked through the streets of Leiden if anyone says they have all the Pumf compilations in NL)
Stranger Son – Last Days of Butterfly
Those in need of a cuppa and a biscuit had better get one now, as there’s more monochrome psycho drama in store with French Playground, a track which charts the Algerian revolt of the 1950s.
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Apneu – Hard Feelings
This LP should live in the real world of first dates and being sick after a party, and doing your smalls at the laundry, not looking to play out a role as the example of some Simmel-style deconstruction about musical spatiality and society.
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Blank Realm – Grassed Inn
It’s got something of that lackadaisical attitude that The Saints, Royal Trux or the Teardrop Explodes used to spread around, and should be the soundtrack to lots of bedsit rave ups.
Josephine Foster – I’m A Dreamer
Given the way Josephine Foster’s I’m A Dreamer is produced and presented, it should come as no surprise as the whole enterprise feels totally out of step with the present time.
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Melt Yourself Down – Melt Yourself Down
All over in 36 minutes too, how the FUCK did they manage to cram all of that in in such a short time?
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Tim Hecker – Virgins
I’d say this is an essential LP, really worth listening in to. It’s enervating, tough, uncompromising and something that is at times, pretty bloody far out whilst being incredibly accessible.
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Peter Broderick – Float 2013
Broderick’s work always reminds me of things that Rodelius does; especially when you take into account those very minimal, spacious, but melancholic piano runs…
UMA – Vanity
It’s deceptively quiet, under the radar music that heralds (I bloody hope) a great LP from this German duo.
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Ikebana – When You Arrive There Remix
So, mental baggage left firmly in the rubbish dump, we can say this record is as diverse and refreshing as can be.
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