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    A crazily convoluted crucible of ideas: Three Trapped Tigers – Numbers: 1–13

    by 5:4 March 25, 2012 • 13:23
    March 25, 2012 • 13:23

    Turning away from the Lent series for a bit, for some time now i’ve been itching to write about Three Trapped Tigers. They’re a trio of musicians from London, and despite the fact they consist of keyboards, bass guitar and drums, despite the fact their music is given labels such…

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    New digital EP: Simulated Music – postscript

    by 5:4 October 1, 2011 • 13:08
    October 1, 2011 • 13:08

    i’ve released today a new EP of electronic music, titled Simulated Music – postscript. As that name suggests, the EP contains material related to my album Simulated Music, released a few months ago. Here’s an excerpt from the blurb: Simulated Music, released in June 2011, was a cycle of music…

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    Mika Vainio – Life (… It Eats You Up)

    by 5:4 August 1, 2011 • 01:43
    August 1, 2011 • 01:43

    For around seven minutes, you wonder where you are. Extended, sharp, contorted droning outbursts emanate from somewhere, wrestling either to cling to or break free from their origin. It’s like witnessing an alien voice learn how to speak. And then, seemingly from nowhere, IRRUPTION! the music transformed into a massive…

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    Richard Ginns – Sea Change

    by 5:4 June 25, 2011 • 12:08
    June 25, 2011 • 12:08

    Nostalgia is a curious and dangerous thing. Its essential condition – memorialising past events, beautifying them into an idealised rendition of the original – is a kind of historical plastic surgery, and its prevalence in contemporary culture shows no sign of abating. At its best, in the realm of the…

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    New CD: Simulated Music – out today!

    by 5:4 June 12, 2011 • 13:19
    June 12, 2011 • 13:19

    Simulated Music is my new CD, released today, Sunday 12 June 2011. The piece marks something of a departure from my previous electronic music. In Simulated Music, i have allowed the sound materials much more freedom to ‘do their own thing’, leaving them to unfold with minimal intervention. Both in…

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    Noveller – Glacial Glow

    by 5:4 June 6, 2011 • 17:12
    June 6, 2011 • 17:12

    Since departing from rock outfit Parts & Labor in 2009, Sarah Lipstate has taken to exploring deeply experimental territory. Under the nom de guerre of Noveller, armed with only a guitar and the determination to subject it to all manner of treatments, she has spent the last couple of years…

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    A flawless reverie for the end of the world: The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation – Anthropomorphic

    by 5:4 May 23, 2011 • 11:09
    May 23, 2011 • 11:09

    From time to time, an album comes along that doesn’t just confound expectations, but actually goes so far as to widen one’s understanding of what music is capable of being. Scott Walker’s The Drift (which recently turned five years old) is, for me, the most memorable example of that; the…

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    Mind-bogglingly beautiful: Fovea Hex – Here Is Where We Used To Sing

    by 5:4 May 14, 2011 • 12:33
    May 14, 2011 • 12:33

    Clodagh Simonds likes to take her time. Following an early spell of musical incandescence in the late ’60s and early ’70s (in her own group, the fascinating prog folk outfit Mellow Candle), the Irish singer was content to hover in the fringes for three and half decades before taking centre…

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    A complete counterpoint to untold destruction: Ex Confusion – Too Late, They Are Gone

    by 5:4 March 15, 2011 • 22:35
    March 15, 2011 • 22:35

    Sometimes, timing changes everything. Tomorrow sees the release of a new EP from Japan’s Atsuhito Omori, better known as Ex Confusion, titled Too Late, They Are Gone. That a work of such sublime quietude from a Japanese artist should come at such a desperate time for that country—which has, in…

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    The familiar and the strange playing together as friends: Radiohead – The King of Limbs

    by 5:4 March 6, 2011 • 16:23
    March 6, 2011 • 16:23

    As an occasion, Valentine’s Day is polarising enough, split between they who regard it with importance, and those for whom it’s little more than an overhyped, vacuous sham. But that polarisation was exacerbated further on this particular Valentine’s Day, bringing as it did Radiohead‘s announcement that their eighth album, The…

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    Aidan Baker – Lost in the Rat Maze

    by 5:4 February 9, 2011 • 21:06
    February 9, 2011 • 21:06

    There will be some who regard Aidan Baker as not just an important part of post-rock, ambient doom music, but as a sine qua non of that scene, perhaps even the benchmark by which its practitioners should be measured and judged. Such is his perceived importance to many, and the…

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    Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972

    by 5:4 January 12, 2011 • 21:19
    January 12, 2011 • 21:19

    If there’s one thing that characterises Tim Hecker’s music, it’s a spirit of dichotomy, sitting comfortably betwixt smooth, rounded ambient edges and jagged points of noise. Ravedeath, 1972 continues that dichotomy, and embodies another one, combining the effervescent caprice of live improvisation with the cool consideration subsequently brought to bear…

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    United Bible Studies – The Gascoigne Observatory

    by 5:4 December 4, 2010 • 17:48
    December 4, 2010 • 17:48

    A few months ago, United Bible Studies made available in digital form their debut release, Stations of the Sun, Transits of the Moon, which first saw light of day as far back as 2003. Listened to beside the group’s latest album, The Gascoigne Observatory, released last month, makes for a…

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    Ironomi – Sketch

    by 5:4 November 5, 2010 • 00:32
    November 5, 2010 • 00:32

    While stereotypes abound when discussing music emanating from the east, an acute sensitivity to the machinations and subtleties of nature seems to be an unmistakable, almost ubiquitous characteristic. This, complimented by a profound kind of simplicity, sets such music apart from the preoccupations of the west, which so often gravitate…

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    New digital release: at the magical hour when is becomes if / desert-tide

    by 5:4 October 2, 2010 • 00:00
    October 2, 2010 • 00:00

    The sonic poles of noise and pitched material are heard in delicate vein on my own new digital EP, which presents two works composed in June 2010. The shorter of the two, desert-tide, takes a gentle journey through a small, noise-based landscape. By contrast, at the magical hour when is…

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    Flawless, stratospheric pinnacles: The Birthday Massacre – Pins and Needles

    by 5:4 September 24, 2010 • 21:19
    September 24, 2010 • 21:19

    While the majority of contemporary rock—regardless of what prefix it’s given—tends to pass me by as so much generic, posturing fluff, inject a healthy, industrial-strength jolt of electronics through it, and i’m very much more inclined to sit up and pay attention. Such music’s just as capable of factory-line posing…

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    Aching with exuberance: of Montreal – False Priest

    by 5:4 September 18, 2010 • 12:18
    September 18, 2010 • 12:18

    My first encounter with of Montreal‘s 2008 album Skeletal Lamping was a bewildering experience. For anyone unfamiliar with it, its apparent 15 tracks are nothing but a ruse; in fact, there are many more than that, the album lurching between portions of song, seeking neither clarity nor indeed coherence. On…

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    Hypnotising, confounding, beautiful: Chubby Wolf – Ornitheology

    by 5:4 July 25, 2010 • 16:07
    July 25, 2010 • 16:07

    On 8 July—the anniversary of Danielle Baquet-Long‘s death—in a rather lovely coincidence, her first posthumous release, Ornitheology, landed on my doormat. That was the standard edition, released in a typically short run of 125 copies by Digitalis—by now, of course, very sold out. Yesterday, the special edition arrived, in an…

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    Dragonette – new single: Our Summer Volcano

    by 5:4 July 20, 2010 • 20:00
    July 20, 2010 • 20:00

    Canada’s most exciting electronic pop outfit Dragonette are putting out their first release of 2010 in a week’s time, a single titled “Our Summer Volcano”. The partial title track, “Our Summer”, is an audaciously addictive anthemic floor stomper, perfect for summer parties where it’s destined to send people out of…

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    A ferocious take on dubstep: Hecq – Sura

    by 5:4 June 22, 2010 • 15:42
    June 22, 2010 • 15:42

    Despite claiming, a little over a year ago, that “the whole beat-science cant go any further for me”, Hecq has unleashed a new EP, Sura, that is a ferocious take on dubstep. Far from turning his back on beats after Steeltongued, Hecq positively bombards the ears with them, barely held…

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