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Review: Lawrence Lek + Oliver Coates - Unreal Estate OST

“Congratulations! Your bid for Burlington House and 6 Burlington Gardens was successful. The former home of the Royal Academy of Arts is now yours.” The premise is this: the Royal Academy of Arts has been sold off to an anonymous Chinese billionaire and converted into a luxury playboy mansion. Through

Review: REFUSENIK - Musikaliszer Pinkos

Here’s the situation. Arturas Bumšteinas (aka REFUSENIK) picks up an old Polyvox synthesiser in Vilnius (the capital of his home country of Lithuania) and uses it to play pieces from a 1927 Hebrew music book by Abraham Berenstein entitled Musikaliszer Pinkos. I feel differently about the record now

Review: Tom McKinney - TMK

Strange things can happen when composer and performer are split into separate entities. So often, the acoustic guitar can be a sponge for habitual composition; the constant, subconscious application of routine movements and personal technique, carving out identity through the persistent reprise of homely melodic progressions and particular quirks. TMK

Review: Chaines + Tom Rose - SPLIT

Rather than present each artist in its own distinct block, SPLIT alternates back and forth between tracks by its two participants. It swings pendulum-like between two states, placing emphasis on the point of transition between them; that “similar but different” co-dependency that renders the split format somewhat awkwardly poised, relishing

Review: Goves - A Creche For The Lonely And Peculiar

Even the very first sound on A Creche For The Lonely And Peculiar treads an ambiguous line between an organic, real-word tangibility and the abstract realms of electronics: is it the amplified scrape of a thin nail on a dry wall perhaps, or maybe just static modulated and reshaped? Such

Review: Leo Abrahams + Oliver Coates - Crystals Are Always Forming

Only the second ever release from Manchester’s Slip Discs, Crystals Are Always Forming resumes the label’s fresh-thinking meld of organic and artificial sources, this time homing in on a collaboration between the cello of Oliver Coates and the electronic conjurings of Leo Abrahams. But rather than burrow into

Review: Points Of Light - SLP001

My edition of SLP001 will be different to yours. My initials are stenciled onto the paper ribbon in silver font, sheathing the individually stenciled card sleeve within, which in turn holds the individually stenciled CD. Needless to say, the opening statement of the Slip Disc label places strong emphasis on