Issue 13
Welcome to the first real edition of Sleephouse of 2010...
Click here to listen now!
Tracklisting:
1. Vic Thrill - 'Brevia Buzz Storm'
2. Here We Go Magic - 'Fangela'
3. Sam Amidon - 'How Come That Blood'
4. Fourtet & Burial - 'Wolf Cub'
5. Mount Kimbie - 'Maybes'
6. Skriet - 'Fåglarna'
7. Mount Eerie - 'Ancient Questions'
8. Loscil & Destroyer - 'Certain Things You Ought To Know'
9. Loscil - 'Union Dusk'
Or a fuller explanation...
1. Vic Thrill - 'Brevia Buzz Storm'
Photo: John Brassil
Marc Riley's 6music show is more and more filling the gap left by John Peel's profound absence, especially when he drops lunatic stuff like this right out of the blue.
Released in 2007 and surely beggin' for a re-release, this 9 minute 'Beefheart goes Bollywood' freakout just gets better and better throughout its trance-inducing duration. If you want to find out more about this Brooklyn's Vic Thrill - I'd suggest starting here.
2. Here We Go Magic - 'Fangela'
A real classic that I missed out of the end of year credits. A damn near perfect marriage of dream pop with a strangely appropriate electro underpinning.
Main man, Luke Temple oversees this song's gentle and charming cascades with a winning charm, making me think that there might be just be something in this hypnogogia, afterall.
Here We Go Magic MySpace
3. Sam Amidon - 'How Come That Blood'
The tradional folk runs strong in Sam Amidon's family, but he serves up a real fresh treat for the ears on this song, a complete reworking of an old Appalachian standard, and a song that seems to me haunted by Arthur Russell's Iowa farmboy personna.
Better still he's offering the track for free download right here in exchange for your email address. Not a bad deal, as I'm sure he'll be dropping you a line come March when the full album, 'I See The Sign', is released.
4. Fourtet & Burial - 'Wolf Cub'
It's surely official - after a string of lukewarm releases - Four Tet is thoroughly back on track. The excellent Joy Orbison remix of 'Love Cry' is doing great business and he's just unleashed a fantastic mix from his London DJ reisidency at Plastic People (you can listen to it right here).
Seems to me that Mr Hebden's brush with the dark side (i.e. his collaboration with Burial) has done his the world of good and he's returned rejuvinated from the land of shadows ready to release an album that's as anticipated as anything I can remember from Four Tet. While we wait for 'There Is Love In You''s release, let's celebrate his return to form with the my favourite side of 2009's Four Tet / Burial split 12".
Visit Fourtet.net to listen to a preview of the new record!
5. Mount Kimbie - 'Maybes'
More dubstep influenced stuff from London's Mount Kimbie, this time from the more melodic and sunny side of the genre, courtesy of Hotflush Records.
And although I'm not entirely sure this technically is actually dubstep - I'm pretty goddamn pleased that the genre has sparked a renewed interest in this kind of electronic music again. As I'm sure are these fellas.
Mount Kimbie
6. Skriet - 'Fåglarna'
Photo: Anna Sundström
My further adventures in Scandinavian music continue with this cracker from Swedish band Skriet.
In the old days, when writers had to make you listen to the song without being able to let you listen to it, comparisions with Joy Division would have been banded around. Thank god then for the internet. Just click here and listen to them for yourself and save me the embarrassement. The song title means 'The Birds', by the way.
Skriet MySpace
7. Mount Eerie - 'Ancient Questions'
When I read that Mount Eerie's latest album was "black metal" influenced, I swore I wouldn't listen to it. I softened my position somewhat, but was put off by the loud guitars on the first track when I finally got round to giving it a proper listen.
I don't even know how I came to hear the rest of the record, but somehow it's wormed its way into my heart regardless of my better judgement. In fact, I think it's Phil Elverum's best record in some time. Dammit.
Visit Pwelverumandsun.com for all things Elverum
8. Loscil & Destroyer - 'Certain Things You Ought To Know'
9. Loscil - 'Union Dusk'
After reading a few scraps of hesistant predictions and sniffing the gathering wind - I'm gonna put all my money on a pronounced comeback for drone and ambient this year. Afterall, what do I care? Even if I'm wrong I'll still get to play you some glorious records.
And we're gonna start with the very best - Vancouver's Loscil.
By day, Scott Morgan is a mild-mannered Sound Designer for the video game industry - by night he's one of the finest exponents of minimal ambient around, having released a glittering string of releases over that last decade, all of which I can thoroughly recommend.
He's also played drums with Destroyer and remains a collaborator with Dan Bejar - as evidenced by the first track, a live rehearsal recording of Destroyer's 'Certain Things You Ought To Know' that he posted on his excellent blog last year.
He also quietly slipped out the three track 'Strathcona Variations' as a digital-only release on Ghostly International in the fall of 2009, and 'Union Dusk' is taken from that. You can buy it right here.
I'm sure I've heard rumours of a full length release in 2010 too. Or maybe that's just my wishful thinking. I really hope not.
Visit loscil.ca
Click here to listen now!
Tracklisting:
1. Vic Thrill - 'Brevia Buzz Storm'
2. Here We Go Magic - 'Fangela'
3. Sam Amidon - 'How Come That Blood'
4. Fourtet & Burial - 'Wolf Cub'
5. Mount Kimbie - 'Maybes'
6. Skriet - 'Fåglarna'
7. Mount Eerie - 'Ancient Questions'
8. Loscil & Destroyer - 'Certain Things You Ought To Know'
9. Loscil - 'Union Dusk'
Or a fuller explanation...
1. Vic Thrill - 'Brevia Buzz Storm'
Photo: John Brassil
Marc Riley's 6music show is more and more filling the gap left by John Peel's profound absence, especially when he drops lunatic stuff like this right out of the blue.
Released in 2007 and surely beggin' for a re-release, this 9 minute 'Beefheart goes Bollywood' freakout just gets better and better throughout its trance-inducing duration. If you want to find out more about this Brooklyn's Vic Thrill - I'd suggest starting here.
2. Here We Go Magic - 'Fangela'
A real classic that I missed out of the end of year credits. A damn near perfect marriage of dream pop with a strangely appropriate electro underpinning.
Main man, Luke Temple oversees this song's gentle and charming cascades with a winning charm, making me think that there might be just be something in this hypnogogia, afterall.
Here We Go Magic MySpace
3. Sam Amidon - 'How Come That Blood'
The tradional folk runs strong in Sam Amidon's family, but he serves up a real fresh treat for the ears on this song, a complete reworking of an old Appalachian standard, and a song that seems to me haunted by Arthur Russell's Iowa farmboy personna.
Better still he's offering the track for free download right here in exchange for your email address. Not a bad deal, as I'm sure he'll be dropping you a line come March when the full album, 'I See The Sign', is released.
4. Fourtet & Burial - 'Wolf Cub'
It's surely official - after a string of lukewarm releases - Four Tet is thoroughly back on track. The excellent Joy Orbison remix of 'Love Cry' is doing great business and he's just unleashed a fantastic mix from his London DJ reisidency at Plastic People (you can listen to it right here).
Seems to me that Mr Hebden's brush with the dark side (i.e. his collaboration with Burial) has done his the world of good and he's returned rejuvinated from the land of shadows ready to release an album that's as anticipated as anything I can remember from Four Tet. While we wait for 'There Is Love In You''s release, let's celebrate his return to form with the my favourite side of 2009's Four Tet / Burial split 12".
Visit Fourtet.net to listen to a preview of the new record!
5. Mount Kimbie - 'Maybes'
More dubstep influenced stuff from London's Mount Kimbie, this time from the more melodic and sunny side of the genre, courtesy of Hotflush Records.
And although I'm not entirely sure this technically is actually dubstep - I'm pretty goddamn pleased that the genre has sparked a renewed interest in this kind of electronic music again. As I'm sure are these fellas.
Mount Kimbie
6. Skriet - 'Fåglarna'
Photo: Anna Sundström
My further adventures in Scandinavian music continue with this cracker from Swedish band Skriet.
In the old days, when writers had to make you listen to the song without being able to let you listen to it, comparisions with Joy Division would have been banded around. Thank god then for the internet. Just click here and listen to them for yourself and save me the embarrassement. The song title means 'The Birds', by the way.
Skriet MySpace
7. Mount Eerie - 'Ancient Questions'
When I read that Mount Eerie's latest album was "black metal" influenced, I swore I wouldn't listen to it. I softened my position somewhat, but was put off by the loud guitars on the first track when I finally got round to giving it a proper listen.
I don't even know how I came to hear the rest of the record, but somehow it's wormed its way into my heart regardless of my better judgement. In fact, I think it's Phil Elverum's best record in some time. Dammit.
Visit Pwelverumandsun.com for all things Elverum
8. Loscil & Destroyer - 'Certain Things You Ought To Know'
9. Loscil - 'Union Dusk'
After reading a few scraps of hesistant predictions and sniffing the gathering wind - I'm gonna put all my money on a pronounced comeback for drone and ambient this year. Afterall, what do I care? Even if I'm wrong I'll still get to play you some glorious records.
And we're gonna start with the very best - Vancouver's Loscil.
By day, Scott Morgan is a mild-mannered Sound Designer for the video game industry - by night he's one of the finest exponents of minimal ambient around, having released a glittering string of releases over that last decade, all of which I can thoroughly recommend.
He's also played drums with Destroyer and remains a collaborator with Dan Bejar - as evidenced by the first track, a live rehearsal recording of Destroyer's 'Certain Things You Ought To Know' that he posted on his excellent blog last year.
He also quietly slipped out the three track 'Strathcona Variations' as a digital-only release on Ghostly International in the fall of 2009, and 'Union Dusk' is taken from that. You can buy it right here.
I'm sure I've heard rumours of a full length release in 2010 too. Or maybe that's just my wishful thinking. I really hope not.
Visit loscil.ca
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