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MWVM, Rotations (Silber Records)

"It´s Easy To Be Miserable", one of the track titles of this album claims quite truthfully, so why not exert yourself and be happy instead? On his debut album, Micheal Walton from Durham in the UK proves to be a joyful, if restrained, guitar-teaser, stroking and molding it with delay pedals and... [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:36, 03 Jul 2008

Miko, Parade (Plop)

A breed and gender of performer that seems almost indigenous to Japan is the bird-voiced, whispery female vocalist. This may be a false wish-fulfillment caused by too much investment in the Orientalist geisha mystique, but it is a fact that a lot of whispery female vocalists are of Japanese origin.... [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 07:41, 30 Jun 2008

New Fonda 500 album 'Je m'appelle stereo' out Monday 30th June.

[ review of: Fonda 500 ]

'Loud, proud and incredibly sexy, Hull’s Fonda 500 are back with another pure pop explosion for the ears. ‘Je M’appele Stereo’ finds fuel from past indie creations to produce a record which sounds like as if Super Furry Animals have eaten too many sherbet dib dabs and have been left alone... [read]
Posted by nicolai_brotung at 20:23, 25 Jun 2008

Bramble, Innate (Grundruck)

A deep space atmosphere is immediately established on Bramble´s debut by a pad of weightless synth and a single "beep" - one of the most direct utterances on this entire, understated album. Yet this half-hour, four-track journey might just as well be headed inward as outward, downward into systems... [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 07:17, 25 Jun 2008

Never Known, Once in a Lifetime (Afe)

"Another friendly edition" is the classy little CDR label founded and run by Andrea Marutti. Today Marutti is an established and admired ambient artist, but he has a long history of experimenting with genres stretching back to the early nineties and releasing (mostly solo) material under a variety... [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:21, 19 Jun 2008

Box of Dub: Dubstep and Future Dub (Soul Jazz)

In the recently released, revised edition of his history of dance culture, "Energy Flash", chronicler Simon Reynolds defines dubstep as a darker, taciturn and more experimental brother of grime and 2step, all of which are shoots off the UK Garage tree. However, he also criticizes it for having the... [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:36, 16 Jun 2008

Expansion Bay, Star Obsolescence (Spanish Music)

Star Obsolescence hears Nathan Thompson of New Zealand processing instrumental sounds from previous band work and field recordings into a new musical journey. The three-part odyssey begins with "Lateral Drift I" which, while it may aspire to be an ambient eye-closer, tears at my brain like... [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 07:57, 16 Jun 2008