Still pretty hooked on the Four Tet album and the Kompakt comp this week; apart from anything else, both very powerful working soundtracks for hot weather. Ditto a strong late arrival from Duane Pitre, which completes a trilogy with his last couple of albums ("Feel Free" and "Bridges") and confirms ...
Still pretty hooked on the Four Tet album and the Kompakt comp this week; apart from anything else, both very powerful working soundtracks for hot weather. Ditto a strong late arrival from Duane Pitre, which completes a trilogy with his last couple of albums (“Feel Free” and “Bridges”) and confirms him once again as my favourite – and most nuanced – drone artist out there at the moment.
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1 Four Tet – Morning/Evening (Text)
2 Various Artists – Total 15 (Kompakt)
3 Mercury Rev – The Light In You (Bella Union)
4 Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Autoimaginary (Drag City)
5 Bilal – In Another Life (BBE)
6 Gwenno – Y Dydd Olaf (Heavenly)
7 Alif – Aynama-Rtama (Nawa Recordings)
8 Wand – 1000 Days (Drag City)
9 Phil Cook – Southland Mission (Thirty Tigers)
10 Kurt Vile – B’lieve I’m Goin Down… (Matador)
11 Dungen – Allas Sak (Smalltown Supersound)
12 Duane Pitre – Bayou Electric (Important)
13 Master Musicians Of Bukkake – Further West Quad Cult (Important)
14 Alela Diane & Ryan Francesconi – The Sun Today (Believe Recordings)
15 Craig Finn – Faith In The Future (Partisan)
16 Blondes – Persuasion (RVNG INTL)
17 Uncut’s next free CD
18 Jamie xx – In Colour (Young Turks)