October 2010
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The Radio Dept.: Download new song, The One, for...
The Radio Dept. recorded one of this year’s best pop albums (called ‘Clinging to a Scheme’) but instead of having some relax and free time after their worldwide success they decided to start an US tour and release new single EP for stunning ‘Never Follow Suit.’ The leading song is partly inspired by 80’s documentary ‘Style Wars’ about the Graffiti...
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“Happiness doesn’t consist so much of what one has scraped together and got...”
– Peter Høeg - Den stille pige
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Erik K Skodvin: Pochmúrnosť a temnota z jesenného... →
Erik K Skodvin je nórsky umelec, ktorý sa venuje temnému ambientu a väčšinou pomalej elektronickej hudbe so surreálnym nádychom a pocitom, akoby ste počúvali hudbu k filmu. So svojim najznámejšim projektom, Deaf Center, vytvoril jeden z najpôsobivejších ambientných albumov minulého desaťročia; hĺbavý, zvukovo plný, chvíľami hravý a hlavne silne obrazotvorný. Elektronika a manipulácia s...
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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma will throw you into a droning...
Type Records pick another talented person, whose life is utterly filled by art. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma has been releasing music with Tarentel, The Alps and his one-man-band Colophon. Along with recording individually or with his groups, he’s also founder of experimental label Root Strata that released albums of Grouper, Oneohtrix Point Never or Zelienople among many other artists in its rich...
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Svarte Greiner: Road into dreamless sleep
Richness and nuance of Erik K Skodvin’s musical world is fascinating. In few days he’s releasing his first album recorded under his name, beautiful acoustic affair called ‘Flare,’ but the prolific nature of this productive Norwegian is even greater. In the late November, there’s a split LP with Le Corbeau expected and it’s recorded under Skodvin’s most...
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Sampha: When dubstep meets chillwave and funky
Put some dubstep beats on the bottom. Then add vintage synthesizers, mix them in your computer til the moment they sound washed out, relaxed and bit dazed. Use the piano and blend it smoothly into the mass. Don’t be afraid of drum & bass lines and r&b vocals; put them tenderly into the middle of your increasingly listenable substance. To make it taste more sweet and tasty, drop of...
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Our Broken Garden: Honey-voiced melancholy from...
Anna Bronsted, the main creative force behind chamber outfit Our Broken Garden, is best known for her beautiful honey, whispery soprano and love for subtle, hushed arrangements. Her debut album, When Your Blackening Shows was a decent dive into emotive gloom with tender ballads about love, regret and death. Her second effort, Golden Sea (Bella Union), was recorded with Søren Bigum...
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Fabrizio Paterlini: Fragments of romantic pianist
In his interview for Audiovoltaics, Italian pianist and composer Fabrizio Paterlini defined his music as a “glass of red wine on a summer’s evening.” While listening to the two of his newest pieces, it’s definitely what his music sounds like. Even without knowing his Italian origins, Il gigante e la balena reminds romantic, almost kitschy relaxed evening wandering somewhere through the...
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Röyksopp present new song, 'I Wanna Know'
Although Röyksopp got mixed reviews for their latest effort, Senior, they are unstoppable with releasing new songs. They obviously love regular switching between catchy disco-pop tunes and moody, instrumental chill-out ones. And yeah, their new song belongs to the first category. Four-to-the-floor rhythm comes first, then their 4 basic chords and finally (ta-dah), gorgeous male vocals.
With...
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“The collection of energy must be the ground of form.”
– Arvo Pärt - Untitled notebook from 1976
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“To write means going against one’s ides;
if I know, what do I want to...”
– Tomas Espedal - Gå. (Eller kunsten å leve et vilt og poetisk liv)
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Late: Dark cinematic dubstep from chilly Finland
One of this year’s most introverted and lonely dubstep albums comes from Finland. Unsurprisingly. It’s not shocking that this country with lot of darkness during their autumn and winter gives the world of music such inside-looking, dark atmosphere loving artists. Linking Finland with night is similar cliché as comparing every opaque-sounding dubstep album to Burial. However, it was...
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James Blake sings Limit to Your Love, Feist's...
If you have already pigeonholed James Blake as “just” the dubstep’s next big thing, he proved on Klavierwerke EP, that he’s capable of something more eclectic and genre-breaking. Calm, introverted look into his soul was both dark and spectacular, as Blake made a connection between his solemnly sounding piano, torn fragments of vocals, dazed atmosphere and even slower...
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Marta Mist: Dark mourn of violins and cellos
Who Marta Mist are, we don’t know, but their music is so subduing that the details of persons behind are not as important as their music. This Leeds-based group began their career just few month ago with release of Distance/ Skeletal/ Union piece on Hibernate Records. Resembling Kyle Bobby Dunn or Stars Of The Lid, this 24-minute three-parts composition is ambient, tender drone mixed with...
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Röyksopp: Skôr zdĺhavé zívanie, ako nápaditý relax →
Röyksopp sú elektronické duo z Nórska, ktoré sa do hudobných kroník minulého desaťročia zapísalo hlavne vďaka chytľavým melódiám skombinovaným s hrejivo príjemnými elektronickými textúrami spájajúcimi svet chill-outu s tanečným parketom. Po desaťročí sa rozhodli urobiť vyhýbku a vrátiť sa k tomu, čím prerazili a zviditeľnili sa dokonca aj na MTV. K minuloročnému disco popu nazvanému ‘Junior’...
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Zola Jesus: Poor Animal
Penetrating waters of alternative pop doesn’t always mean being shallow or dumb. It’s not so easy to master catchy melody with approachable arrangements and retain the originality and uniqueness of artistic statement. Doing quality pop is as demanding and artistic as composing the songs of any other genre and such artists should gain similar admiration and recognition.
With every...
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Arborea: Red Planet of folksy dreams
Sweet folk melodies are subconsciously connected to nature. Folk takes a bow to the traditions of old days, when people were closer to the nature and countryside wasn’t just a hollow of nothingness. Also, myths about origins of animals, woods or natural phenomena were much more important and thus the relations to the world of wild living creatures were tighter and somehow, more obvious and...
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Ólöf Arnalds: The SoundCloud Sessions
Ólöf Arnalds is a spectacular artist whose art can be most fittingly described as cute. Strumming light and delicious harmonies on her guitar (or charango) and chirping airy melodies, Ólöf’s music is attractively pure. She released her second album few weeks ago and in the review for Wears The Trousers I concluded that “[Innundir Skinni is] a document of Arnalds’ artistic maturation...
