Utility Fog

Sunday, 7th of March, 2010

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And you can LISTEN AGAIN via the link at the bottom.

Sad news that Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse took his own life this week. Played a track to see him off, in collaboration with Christian Fennesz. Fennesz’s laptop power trio FennO’Berg are back with a new album, on which the jury’s still out – but I haven’t had a chance to listen properly yet. This track stood out enough to get the thumbs up tonight!

Montreal’s The Besnard Lakes’ new album sounds remarkably like The Besnard Lakes — and that’s a great thing! If you’re familiar with their last two albums you’ll know what to expect – and it’s as rapturous and epic as ever.
Fellow Canadians The Arcade Fire slipped in next – for some reason this song was on my mind for a few days this week, and it is a very fine one I must say.
And we had a little reminder of The Besnard Lakes’ first album.

First off in our little “classical” music-influenced theme tonight is The Knife’s opera based on the life and works of Charles Darwin, written “in collaboration” with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock. It’s pretty crazy cool stuff, with scene-setting experimental sounds, enormous analog synth lines, operatic (and non-operatic) vocals and some percussion… A definite winner.
Speaking of classical influence, also another track from that amazing These New Puritans album, with wind ensemble in amongst the percussion and almost new wave attitude…

More classicism with Icelandic composer Daníel Bjarnason, whose “Bow To String” is the first work on his new album for Bedroom Community. Countless multi-tracked celli make for a rich and richly-rhythmic sound, with a little help from label boss Valgeir Sigurðsson. From Valgeir we also heard a wonderful track from his new album, featuring many other Bedroom Community artists as guests, plus an older glitchy electronic piece which ushered in a bit of an electronic segment. However, in between we had a reprise of the one track as yet available from Sam Amidon’s new album — blissful rhythmic ostinati and an authentic folk voice.

The electronica begins with Sydney’s Vorad Fils, who happens to be one of the members of the beloved Seekae, and has an album coming out via Feral Media soon! Classic electronica.
It’s the first in a number of tracks tonight from New Weird Australia Volume Five, which you are hereby instructed to go and download now. Get the others too if you haven’t yet!
There. Good.

Next, Scottish glitch-hop artist Loops Haunt. Nicely twisted, syncopated and chopped stuff. And while it’s definitely more on the dancefloor tip, it’s still very much listening music too, and strangely appropriate as a segue into a new Autechre track, from their stellar Oversteps. Raved about it last week, and I think we’ll be back for more for a good few weeks yet (at least until the album comes out on CD!) This track starts off a bit oddly but swiftly becomes something fascinating, and the last minute or two as it tails off are pretty amazing.
And then a rarity – an artist about whom I know pretty much nothing! Racoon is on the Italian label Disasters by Choice and makes very Mém-influenced electronic/folktronic sounds. It’s very pretty and I’d love to know more…

We had a brief tag-team tonight between two excellent remix albums, from Aarktica and dakota suite. The former takes the drone-pop of Jon DeRosa’s Aarktica and either takes it more in the droney-guitar direction or adds some nice crunched beats etc… But UFog-favourites The Declining Winter add some extra vocals and Sarah Kemp’s multi-tracked violin for something very special.
The dakota suite remix album actually came out last year but has just been re-released by German label Karaoke Kalk for greater coverage, and it’s brilliant. Tonight, Peter Broderick is at his usual heights with a very soft and reflective piece worthy of multiple re-listens, and Deaf Center contribute something layered and evocative. More of these to come…

Aaron Martin’s latest album isn’t on Sydney’s Preservation, but Experimedia are well-known for their beautiful packaging too. Aaron here seems to be taking things in an even more abstract sound-related direction, but the second track I played is one of his best cello-related works yet, a multi-tracked delight.

Further New Weird Australia offerings include the wonderful Sydney-based sound artist Gail Priest, whose vocal processing is a wonder, the ever-fab Crab Smasher with a bit of almost Sonic Youth-like rock jamming, and Red Plum & Snow — new project for Kris Keogh of Blastcorp, taking vocal-swapping acoustic guitar folk-pop in very interesting directions :)

Also in there, the improv guitar, sax, drums and other stuff from Sydney’s Espadrille, and a b-side from Collarbones, more glitched-up electronic pop.

sparklehorse + fennesz – Goodnight Sweetheart [Konkurrent]
Fenn O’Berg – Part IV [Editions Mego]
The Besnard Lakes – Like the Ocean Like the Innocent Pt I: The Ocean / Pt II: The Innocent [Jagjaguwar]
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) [Rough Trade]
The Besnard Lakes – This Thing [Jagjaguwar]
The Knife in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock – Epochs [Rabid/etcetc]
These New Puritans – Hologram [Angular/Domino]
The Knife in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock – Tumult/Colouring of Pigeons [Rabid/etcetc]
Daníel Bjarnason – Bow To String Mvt I: “sorrow conquers happiness” [Bedroom Community]
Valgeir Sigurðsson – Grýlukvæði (feat. Sam Amidon, Nico Muhly & Ben Frost [Bedroom Community]
Sam Amidon – How Come That Blood [Bedroom Community] {free download via Pitchfork!}
Valgeir Sigurðsson – Focal Point [Bedroom Community]
Vorad Fils – Temple Leak [New Weird Australia] {download the latest free comp now!}
Loops Haunt – Huarache [Fortified Audio]
Loops Haunt – Joplin [Black Acre]
Autechre – d-sho qub [Warp]
Racoon – the anonymous brother of Lili Chou Chou [Disasters by Choice] {one wonders if the titular person is Racoon, since I can find practically no information about them on the interwebs!}
Aarktica – In Sea (remixed by Mason Jones) [Silber]
dakota suite – very early one morning on old road (deaf center remix) [karaoke kalk]
Aarktica – Am I Demon? (remix by The Declining Winter) [Silber]
dakota suite – this failing sea (peter broderick remix) [karaoke kalk]
Aaron Martin – Ice Melts Onto Fingers [Experimedia]
Gail Priest – Etchings [New Weird Australia] {download the latest free comp now!}
Aaron Martin – Water Tongue [Experimedia]
Espadrille – out of space part 3 [self-released]
Crab Smasher – Skin Destruction [New Weird Australia] {download the latest free comp now!}
Red Plum & Snow – I Would Die 4 U [New Weird Australia] {download the latest free comp now!}
Collarbones – late nights [Collarbones Bandcamp] {download free – follow the link!}

Listen again — ~ 180MB

Sunday, 28th of February, 2010

Yay for musics! LISTEN AGAIN, folks, at the bottom of this post!
Tonight was mainly a feature on a few special new releases.
Anticon’s Son Lux explores iterations of one track on the digital-only Weapons EP, which Australians can’t get from bloody Amazon, so you might want to try Midheaven…
Have One On Me, Joanna Newsom’s new album is an epic over 3 CDs, but totally worth it for the trip – for both the lyrics and music, a layered love story that’s beautifully poignant.
And while the CD release is still slated for end of March, Warp snuck the digital release of Autechre’s new album Oversteps a good month early. My suspicion is that they wanted to make the best of it, since it had well and truly leaked already. It’s a #1 Stunna, the best release in ages from one of my favourite bands — on the release of their last album, I wrote a feature article in Cyclic Defrost about how much they meant to me. All the melodicism they’ve been submerging for the last decade or so is back to the fore, along with the full spectrum of beats and atmospheres and freakiness.

We started with one of Son Lux’s own reworkings of “Weapons”, and then the opening track from the Joanna Newsom. The latter was so strikingly reminiscent of the lovely Kate Bush that I had to play a couple of her tunes, and a track from Pikelet’s new album segued so nicely from the latter that, well, it just had to be done. Back to Joanna for one of the absolute highlights, the gorgeous “In California”, with wonderful orchestration and a curious way of changing key and then slipping back down a tone for the refrain.

I couldn’t resist playing Clouds’ dubstep anthem from a few years ago, sampling from “The Book of Right On”, and that took us into one of Son Lux’s reworkings of My Brightest Diamond from her fabulous four-artist remix EP collection released a month or so ago. And then brilliant young composer/arranger Nico Muhly got his hands on the Son Lux tune, with a great arrangement and chunky beats.

Speaking of chunky beats, I’m still obsessing a little over These New Puritans’s new album. Sad to have missed out on the limited edition featuring the full score, gimmick though that was. Another great track tonight.

Following that, we had the first track from the new Autechre, which will no doubt be featured over the next good few shows. “known(1)” is one of the beatless (albeit not rhythm-less) tracks, with an incredible freaked-out melody. It was followed by the utterly classic “Flutter” from the Anti EP, its non-repetitive beats still thrilling, and the gorgeously long fade-out still something else. Couple of other long-fade-out tracks from Ae later on, but we took the tip from the frenetic beats to pull out some early drum’n'bass (1993) from Acro, which turns out to be a collaboration between Decoder & Technical Itch, and is the sort of stuff that must’ve been influencing the IDM/drill’n'bass folks around the mid-’90s.

Back with Son Lux, and anticon labelmate Alias gets behind the mic for the first time in ages, as well as remixing the track. Following this, a brilliant track from ex-labelmate Sole with his current collaborater The Skyrider Band, aka William Ryan Fritch (see later in the playlist…)
The latter and the next track are currently available as part of a promotional compilation put together for South By Southwest by Ernest Gonzales’ Exponential Records. The remix of Heliocentrics’s Sirius B features some brilliant rapping from Vast Aire, and comes courtesy of the very fine Stones Throw.

From there, Sydney/Adelaide duo Collarbones give us a piece of glitch-pop, and it’s strongly recommended you go to their Bandcamp and download it FOR FREE.

And thence to New Zealand, where we join the wonderful Chris Knox, along with Alec Bathgate for the seminal and hugely-influential lo-fi experimental wonder-group the Tall Dwarfs. As you may know, Chris suffered a stroke last year that has (as often they do) devastated his language centers, although he is able to move around and even play music again now. We heard a tune from the Tall Dwarfs, Chris’s solo indie hit “Not Given Lightly”, and a couple of really marvellous reworkings from a marvellous double CD compilation that you should go and buy right now, called Stroke, in which artists from all around the world gathered together to help this importand and well-loved musician/artist/writer get by.
Bill Callahan’s cover of “Lapse” is one a few tracks on this album I’ve had on repeat for the last two weeks. It’s just amazing. Also delightful is the contribution from veteran NZ artist Don McGlashan, best known probably for his indie band the Mutton Birds in the ’90s. He pulls out the drum machine and channels Chris Knox’s recording techniques while sounding as angelic as ever. We also had a gorgeous little number from one of the lost masterpieces of NZ music, 1989’s debut album from his duo The Front Lawn.

Next up, our man in Melbourne, John McCaffrey aka Part Timer has sent in another UFog exlusive (for now), his remix of Vieo Abiungo, which turns out to be another project of the disturbingly-talented William Ryan Fritch. This is one of the best Part Timer remixes in ages too, a bit of an idm thing nicely complementing the African-influenced original track.

Japanese artist Miko contributes vocals and lovely glitches to Ian Hawgood’s remix album, and we then move back to Joanna Newsom for “Does Not Suffice”, the last track from Have One On Me. It’s a wonderful and fitting closer, wrapping up the tale with solo piano and voice, all the way up to the final lines, where the strings enter to underscore the final sentiment: “…and everywhere I tried to love you / is yours again, / and only yours.” Gets you right between the eyes, and from there the song opens up crescendoing into a reverb-laden ending.

I took the opportunity of the reverb to cross to the closing track from Autechre’s Oversteps, which managed to be in just the right key. It may not have the advantage of moving lyrics, but it’s a beauty too, and has a lovely long fade out. Two more Ae-related tracks take us out – side project Gescom with “Key Nell 2”, with two great beats and long ambient outro and then “Nuane”, which ends their greatest album, Chiastic Slide, with chattering, burbling synths from another planet.

Son Lux – Weapons II [anticon]
Joanna Newsom – Easy [Drag City/Spunk]
Kate Bush – The Man With The Child In His Eyes [EMI]
Kate Bush – Army Dreamers [EMI]
Pikelet – Pillow Castle [Chapter Music]
Joanna Newsom – In California [Drag City/Spunk]
Clouds – Shallow [Noppa] {samples liberally from Joanna’s “The Book of Right On”}
My Brightest Diamond vs Son Lux – To Pluto’s Moon [Asthmatic Kitty]
Son Lux – Weapons IV (Nico Muhly Remix) [anticon]
These New Puritans – Orion [Angular/Domino]
Autechre – known(1) [Warp]
Autechre – Flutter [Warp]
Acro – Superpod [Force Ten Recordings/Breakdown Records]
Son Lux – Weapons VI (Alias Remix) [anticon]
Sole & The Skyrider Band – Mr Insurgent [Sole One/Fake Four] {available (for now) for free download as part of Exponential Records‘ SXSW promo album Kadohadacho here}
Heliocentrics – Sirius B (remix) feat. Vast Aire [Stones Throw] {available (for now) as above}
Collarbones – Kill Off The Vowels [Collarbones Bandcamp] {download free – follow the link!}
Tall Dwarfs – thought disorder [Flying Nun]
Bill Callahan – Lapse [Chris Knox/Spunk]
Chris Knox – Not Given Lightly [Flying Nun]
Don McGlashan – Inside Story [Chris Knox/Spunk]
The Front Lawn – Theme From The Lounge Bar [The Front Lawn] {see a hilarious YouTube transferred from video here}
Vieo Abiungo – Furious (Part Timer’s Upbeat Mix) [forthcoming on Lost Tribe Sound] {This is William Ryan Fritch of the Skyrider Band – see above. Exclusive remix from Part Timer, direct from the man as usual…}
Ian Hawgood – A Film by Miko [Home Normal]
Joanna Newsom – Does Not Suffice [Drag City/Spunk]
Autechre – Yuop [Warp]
Gescom – Key Nell 2 [SKAM]
Autechre – Nuane [Warp]

Listen again — ~ 180MB

Monday, 22nd of February, 2010

Filling in for the veritable legendary Paul Gough today! I played some favourite tunes from 1993, just for fun. An interesting year, with Underworld’s self-recreation as techno boundary-pushers, jungle/drum’n'bass getting serious as part of the post-hardcore scene, along with Future Sound of London’s lovely ambient techno and the Warp label’s nurturing of what was dubbed IDM in the nascent email list scene…
Plus heaps of great indie guitar music, punk and rock of course! I’m sad not to have played any hip-hop, among the various omissions, but so it goes with only one hour of airplay!

And yes, as usual, you can LISTEN AGAIN. See below…

Underworld – mmm skyscraper i love you [Junior Recordings]
Nick Cave – Faraway, So Close [Electrola]
NoMeansNo – The Land of the Living [Alternative Tentacles]
John Oswald – Mad Mod [Disk Union]
Björk – Human Behaviour [One Little Indian]
Belly – Low Red Moon [4AD]
Clouds – Bower of Bliss [Red Eye]
Future Sound of London – Cascade Part 1 [Virgin/FSOL Digital]
Boogie Times Tribe – The Dark Stranger [Suburban Base]
Aphex Twin – on [Warp]
Autechre – Kalpol Introl [Warp]

Listen again — ~ 58.5MB

Sunday, 21st of February, 2010

So. Tonight’s interview with the lovely Mr James Blackshaw was a little delayed but did go ahead. We also had a number of tunes from the amazing BJ Nilsen, and ran the gamut from melodicism to drill’n'bass… Checkit.
LISTEN AGAIN link at the bottom as usual! You can also download the James Blackshaw interview on its own here (~19MB).

Starting tonight with a lovely bit of field recording-meets-drone courtesy of BJ Nilsen. It’s the title track to his new album and features the amplified sound of a chair being dragged across the floor. Yum.
Then we had the closing track from the ever-wondrous Pikelet’s new album – folky guitar and heavenly harmonies.

James Blackshaw was a bit of a focus for tonight. I had a bit of difficulty getting through due to a misunderstanding about area codes, but once I sorted that out we had a fantastic chat about his music. You can download it separately here.
The first track I played showcases his beautiful cyclical fingerpicking guitar style. Later we had works featuring strings and voice (from his latest album and first on the Young God label), more fingerstyle guitar, and lastly one piece featuring Blackshaw on piano.
You can catch James Blackshaw in two Sundays’ time, 7:30pm on the 7th of March at Raval in Surry Hills. Tix here.

We heard a track from Axxonn’s excellent new cassette release last week. Tonight, another piece of shuddering drone. Follow the link to buy the cassette with a free download, or purchase it digitally here.

As you may have heard, Michael Gira has announced that he is reforming his legendary gothic rock group Swans, with a new album in the works. Hugely exciting news. In the lead-up, he released a third album of home recordings, including a number of awesome new tunes he played last year on his Australian tour. Tonight’s was one of the highlights.

Ah, Keith Mason, another artist going by his first initial! This track is a trial run for his shambolic EP of last year. You can download it for free, whaddaya waiting for! Grungey keyboard bassline, electric guitar that sounds like a pirate coming to cut your throat.

Shearwater have another album out – third in the trilogy that started with the glorious Palo Santo and continued with Rook… unashamed romantic melodicism, owing much to late-period Talk Talk. Wonderful stuff.

These New Puritans, on the other hand, how to characterise this group? With classical arrangements for woodwinds and choir, plus a highly rhythmic core that points at dancehall and perhaps grime, along with a punkish attitude, and… heck, just check out the video for “We Want War”!
The album was produced by Mr Graham Sutton, giving me an excuse to play one of my favourite songs ever, Bark Psychosis’s Bloodrush.

Next up, Low’s Alan Sparhawk returns with a second album for his ROCK side-project Retribution Gospel Choir. It’s heavy and it’s got Sparhawk’s songs and vocals – what more could we want? That Low song I played could possibly be one of the greatest songs ever too.

Squat Club is one of many Sydney acts based around the crew called QWERTY whose drill’n'bass/idm tunes I used to play a lot when they dropped them into the station a few years back. Squat Club is fabulous epic prog stuff, and goes down a treat. Meanwhile Josh Head’s Calmon H Salmon continues the QWERTY tradition of crazed beats and synths. Yes please.

As well as another lovely soundscape from BJ Nilsen, we had something a little different, from the excellent 10×7” set Recovery from Fractured back in 2008. Nilsen covers Joy Division, although you probably wouldn’t notice :) Still, beats and stuff!

Meanwhile, first hint of the debut album from Sydney’s Actual Russian Brides, electronic pop experimentalism, followed by some more electronica from Sydney: Loopsnake’s dubsteppy debut EP and Monk Fly’s wonky swung beats (released on the Bay Area’s Daly City Records).

And finally, a couple of tunes in tribute to the wonderful Chris Knox. Next week, we’ll have more Knox, Tall Dwarfs, and covers from the fabulous Stroke comp that’s out to raise money to help him recover from last year’s, yes, stroke. Tonight, the lo-fi masterpiece “the slide” is followed by fellow NZ legends The Chills covering a very early Tall Dwarfs tune…

BJ Nilsen – The Invisible City [Touch]
Pikelet – Elbow Equals Bend [Chapter Music]
James Blackshaw – Spiralling Skeleton Memorial [Important Records]
Axxonn – Drone Study1 [Bedroom Suck]
James Blackshaw – Cross [Young God]
James Blackshaw – Sunshrine [Kning Disk]
M Gira – Promise of Water [Young God]
K Mason – Untitled Demo November 2004 [Download from K Mason]
…interview with James Blackshaw…
James Blackshaw – The Cloud of Unknowing [Tompkins Square] {in background under interview!}
James Blackshaw – Gate of Horn [Tompkins Square]
Shearwater – Landscape at Speed [Matador]
These New Puritans – We Want War [Angular/Domino]
Bark Psychosis – Bloodrush [3rd Stone]
Retribution Gospel Choir – Electric Guitar [Sub Pop]
Low – Belarus [Sub Pop]
Retribution Gospel Choir – Destroyer [Sub Pop]
Squat Club – Corvus [self-released]
Calmon H Salmon – karnageminitinkles [self-released, available through addictech]
BJ Nilsen – Heart and Soul [Fractured] {Joy Division cover!}
BJ Nilsen – Finisterre [Touch]
Actual Russian Brides – Puppet [demo/unreleased]
Loopsnake – Is It The Devil In You? [self-released]
Monk Fly – Bumpin Joints [Daly City Records]
Tall Dwarfs – the slide [Flying Nun]
The Chills – Luck or Loveliness [Merge]

Listen again — ~ 179MB

Sunday, 14th of February, 2010

Tonight’s show covered quite some ground, from early ’80s Sydney with the M² label to contemporary Melbourne with Pikelet’s wonderful new album, with minimal techno, drone and much more in between.
LISTEN AGAIN link at the bottom, finally (once shonky internets were fixed…)

When Pikelet played a couple of Sydney shows in Sydney in 2008, she was already road testing some new material, and the wonderful “Toby Light” turned up in a few live sets. It’s been quite a wait, but finally that song opens her fabulous new album Stem, which you should run out and purchase right now! Charming songs based around loop pedals and a plethora of different instruments, perfectly constructed little wonders.

Ascension Records have just released a 4CD box set of all (or most?) of the material released by legendary Sydney label, studio and collective M² during the early 1980s. It’s quite appropriate to start with The Makers of the Dead Travel Fast and their “hit” song “Tael Of A Saeghors”. Even though they weren’t the originators of MSquared, they came on board very early in the piece and this song got quite a bit of radio airplay at the time.
The folks at Vinyl on Demand put out a big vinyl boxset of MSquared stuff last year, but unlike this CD set, that was all unreleased material. Height/Dismay teams up the ubiquitous Patrick Gibson with Dru Johnson (also of Scattered Order and others). This untitled track loops a crying baby under a plaintive tune. It’s quite beautiful, if rather disturbing too…

Next up, Newcastle’s The Atlas Room (I think it’s a solo project) handed in a demo at FBi recently with a pretty impressive range over its 4 tracks. First up we took the almost post-punk “Iris”, and then there’s the more ambient “Dendrite”.
In between, first track from the stunningly-produced Black Noise album by German artist Pantha du Prince. It’s described as minimal house or minimal techno, but it seems to me that only covers part of what he’s doing – with krautrocky elements, a bit of an African influence, almost folktronic hints and a really lush sound.

Sydney (or central coast) artist Edwin Montgomery is on a roll, and has released two albums for free download at his website. Topography just uses a Roland SH2 monophonic analog synthesiser – yes, just a monophonic synth, with loop and delay pedals. It’s quite a lovely ambient and nostalgic sound.
Continuing the synth nostalgia, we have a couple more tracks from Brooklyn’s Oneohtrix Point Never, and then Edwin gives us one of the pieces from his other recent album, 4 Violins – beautiful layered violin drones.

Keeping it stringy, cellist Danny Norbury contributes the first of tonight’s tracks from Ian Hawgood’s Home Normal label, and it’s a remix (or reworking) of Ian Hawgood’s own work. From the same CD, we also had a fabulous folktronic feast from Color Cassette.

Next up, one-time folktronic poster-boy Minotaur Shock teams up with one of the members of the Iskra String Quarte for the second entry in the L-O-A-F Explorers’ Club. Something a bit different for Minotaur Shock and one of the best things I’ve heard of his in ages.

BJ Nilsen’s productions are still new to me, and pretty friggin’ awesome. Source material can be field recordings, strange objects or musical instruments, and everything has a generous helping of computer processing. It’s not unlike what Machinefabriek is doing, but the results, in terms of track structures and probably sonic intentions, are quite unique. The first track we heard tonight starts with digitally distorted birds, abruptly chops off, and then grows into this almost electric organ thing.

Next up, Justin Broadrick & Andrew Broder aren’t really a pair you’d expect to see together on vinyl, but the latest 7″ in Hidden Hive’s Kissing Kin series doesn’t just split sides between them – they’re two collaborations, with Broadrick’s familiar Jesu onslaught of guitars and drum machines, and Broder’s familiar Fog drawl. Strangely, it works. More please!

After more Pikelet, we skipped back to 1990 and the second Necks album. I still remember buying this album, with its original artwork (so sad that they changed it for the reissue). Shorter tracks, unlike most live Necks gigs, and some interesting instrumentation and studio experimentation. Their gig this Friday night at the Metro in Sydney can’t come highly enough recommended from me.
From 1990 Sydney back to the early ’80s, Patrick Gibson gives us a little bit of ambient electronica. I never cease to be amazed at how nonchalantly forward-looking people like these, Severed Heads and others were around this time.
Perhaps also forward-looking, albeit released on cassette, are Brisbane’s Axxonn. At least the cassette releases come with a free download, and Bandcamp very sensibly allow you to choose pretty much any format you like for downloading purposes. Axxonn’s music is powerful stuff, and the beautiful chord progressions and saturated noise are all-enveloping here.

Rejoining the lovely Home Normal, we have one track of glitchy acoustic guitar from offthesky, the processed vocals and drone of L / M / R / W, and the very chilly ambience of Konntinent.

No other new artists in the rest of the playlist, but the last Pikelet selection from her new album has a sweet little bit off the original piano-and-vocal demo version (“Take Off The Face Paint”) which she was selling at gigs in 2008; so I thought we should hear another of those tracks. “My Piano” features some very nimble piano playing and multi-tracked vocals.

Pikelet – Toby Light [Chapter Music]
The Makers of the Dead Travel Fast – Tael Of A Saeghors [M²/Ascension Records]
Height/Dismay – Untitled [M²/Vinyl on Demand]
The Atlas Room – Iris [demo]
Pantha du Prince – lay in a shimmer [Rough Trade]
The Atlas Room – Dendrite [demo]
Edwin Montgomery – Waves of Trilithium [self-released] {free download from his website!}
Oneohtrix Point Never – Behind the Bank [No Fun Productions]
Oneohtrix Point Never – Betrayed in the Octagon [No Fun Productions]
Edwin Montgomery – 4 Violins – I [self-released] {free download from his website!}
Ian Hawgood – A Film By Danny Norbury [Home Normal]
Ian Hawgood – A Film By Color Cassette [Home Normal]
Minotaur Shock and J Underwood – Monodon Monoceros [L-O-A-F]
BJ Nilsen – Scientia [Touch]
Justin Broadrick & Andrew Broder – Nowhere [Hidden Hive]
Pikelet – Swooping Buzzards [Chapter Music]
The Necks – Garl’s/Nice Policeman Nasty Policeman [Spiral Scratch, reissued on Fish of Milk]
Patrick Gibson – Bland A [M²/Ascension Records]
Axxonn – Urine Mote [Bedroom Suck] (cassette+download – or digital from Bandcamp)
offthesky – Light Like [Home Normal]
L / M / R / W – Clay [Home Normal]
Konntinent – Frost Fair [Home Normal]
BJ Nilsen – Into Its Coloured Rays [Touch]
Pikelet – Face Paint [Chapter Music]
Pikelet – My Piano [self-released]
Scattered Order – Personal Safety [M²/Ascension Records]
Pantha du Prince – es schneit [Rough Trade]

Listen again — ~ 175MB