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CLAIR talks music-making, microdosing and the magic of Glasgow to mark the release of her Body Blossom – Revelations EP
Gloria de Oliveira and Dean Hurley’s Oceans of Time is Lana Del Rey reimagined as a Lynchian dream pop masterclass
Glasgow new wave of avant-garde artist CLAIR builds on the promise of her debut album with a submersive and ecstatic digital single
Ambient Babestation Meltdown & JBS repurpose material from SF paperbacks and VHS cassettes as ambient-not-ambient and EBM for Optimo Music
A bitesize round-up of releases – featuring Three Three Fives, Hawksmoor and Deliquescent Crystals – offers up some distinctive flavours
Glasgow duo Cahill//Costello chart an improvised course under sheltering skies and ocean depths, with their minimalist debut Offworld
Andrew Wasylyk talks about reasonable daydreams, meeting migratory geese and the making of his intoxicating new LP for Clay Pipe Music
A kaleidoscopic range of releases from Cubs, D. Rothon, Rose City Band and Lucy Gooch explore inside-out creativity
A diverse gathering of sounds from Rob St John, Colleen, Cheval Sombre, The Chills and Juliana Hatfield goes through some evaluating ears
A quick roundup of short reviews from Concrete Islands HQ, with releases from International Anthem, Soma, Ghost Box, Strut and Jazzland
Mark Churcher discusses the musical foundations of V-Neck and his A Nice Random Meet LP, plus Glasgow connections and the return of Emote
Lithuanian duo Five Rituals discuss their debut LP of experimental low-end music, giving in to the present moment and eco friendly vinyl
Bongo Joe’s La Ola Interior compilation of 1980s Fourth World infused Spanish ambient is a third eye opening experience
Another choice compilation from Second Language and a fifth album from Songs of Green Pheasant shine soothing light into our winter gloom
New albums from Snow Palms, Angèle David-Guillou and Faten Kanaan, pushing post-classical envelopes and more, fall under the review spotlight
Jim Becker tells Gareth Thompson about sharing compassion, putting the ego down and collaborating with Tibetan healer Lama Lobsang Palden
Healing energies and mystic overtones unite on Jim Becker’s long player with Lama Lobsang Palden for Drag City
A regular visitor to Concrete Islands, Preston’s Stephen James Buckley is finally brought in for questioning, at the apex of a very productive year
Stepping aside from his films and literature led explorations, Rupert Lally looks back into his own childhood with this first appearance on Modern Aviation
A hearty delve into locked-down springtime releases from The Home Current, Polypores, Listening Center, Grand Veymont and more
David Mason takes a far more meditative but no less effective turn with this new digital-only Listening Center long-player
Stewart Gardiner never intended the title of his ongoing reviews column to be about social distancing, but reality has wrestled all meaning to the ground
Moustachioed modular-synth maestro Stephen James Buckley brings others into his immersive sound world with sublime communalist results
Burial makes a vital sonic pilgrimage with Tunes 2011 to 2019, a carefully curated collection that inhabits past, present and future
Dark Entries treat an undeserving world to Mechanical Fantasy Box, an archival collection of erotically charged experimental electronics by Patrick Cowley
Adrian returns with Autumn Done Come part two, another seasonally-skewed selection of musical produce bundled-up as the nights draw in
Alexander Tucker talks to Stewart Gardiner about Alan Moore’s Providence, panspermia and multi-dimensional imagery in Guild of the Asbestos Weaver