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Alexander Tucker talks to Stewart Gardiner about Alan Moore’s Providence, panspermia and multi-dimensional imagery in Guild of the Asbestos Weaver
Kemper Norton’s self-released brunton calciner album is a work of industrial beauty, disturbing archaeology and curiously fitting electronics
Hyperdub inaugurate their spoken word imprint with Mark Fisher and Justin Barton’s psychogeographical meditation on disappearance and the Suffolk coast
Dean Hurley leaves the town of Twin Peaks behind with his second volume of reality-disintegrating ambient soundscapes under the Anthology Resource banner
Adrian Corker’s experiments with acetates on Music for Lock Grooves create an environmental music with shades of Brian Eno’s On Land and György Ligeti
Jane Weaver’s Loops in the Secret Society is an emotive tapestry of charged library music and into the night dancefloor anthems
Stephen James Buckley continues the transmogrification of Polypores, with arguably his most alluring and hypnotic album to date
Carrying on his prolific polymathic run of 2019, Oliver Cherer teams up with ISAN’s Robin Saville, for an idiosyncratic conceptual ambient outing
Shedding the hauntological skin of The Heartwood Institute for his first official solo LP, Jonathan Sharp forges an inviting and inventive new sonic space
Steve Nolan’s double cassette set of ambient dream music opens up portals, reroutes neural pathways and unlocks associative trains of thought
Heat Death, Dalham’s third LP and first for Castles In Space, is a thrillingly original electronic work that draws comparisons with early Boards of Canada
Richard Skelton has unearthed ambient transmissions from deep time and pressed them into the present with this album of hinterland inspired compositions
The middle part of Erland Cooper’s proposed triptych inspired by the Orkney Islands is a modern classical evocation of mythology, wonder and wildlife
Greece’s unsung Sound In Silence label unveils yet another imaginative venture from veteran Yorkshire-based journeyman Richard Adams
Leafcutter John’s latest LP is a walking tour of the Norfolk coast rendered as mossy electronica seasoned with field recordings in a kosmische stew
Kinbrae’s second LP is an enchanting psychogeographic evocation of the River Tay that channels the cycle of renewal through analogue ambient soundscapes
A cast of considerate remixers take the conceptual journeying of last year’s solo LP from Mark Peters into eclectic yet seamlessly navigated new directions
Mourning is disrupted throughout Atki2’s Requiem, where ambient piano pieces are transformed by electronic interference and worn crackle
Anthony DP Mann reads the weird fiction Carcosan classic to a score by Goblin keyboard manipulator Maurizio Guarani on this reissue from Cadabra Records
Dylan Henner’s debut EP channels American minimalism and classic ambient to evoke the imaginary score to a stripped back science fiction film
Pye Corner Audio’s third LP for Ghost Box is a future classic of dark potentiality and evocative sonic world building with a core of Space Age optimism
TUTTI is an abstract autobiographical study rendered in dark, sensuous electronics that conveys a hallucinatory experiencing of the past in the present
Self-rejuvenating North Carolina-dweller Sarah Louise delivers a second album for Thrill Jockey that shifts her story on from rustic earthiness to ambient-laced abstraction
The Paralian is the first great album of 2019, a beautifully instinctive, naturally textured work of analogue ambient haunted by the North Sea
Stewart Gardiner says goodbye to 2018 with a roundup of albums and EPs, ranging from the ambience of anxiety to haunted house music and pagan flutes
Through the Crash Barrier is a sort of ground zero Concrete Islands mix, capturing a moment three months into our existence
Bank of Forever’s post-industrial transmissions from slow rooms are maze-like staging areas that dismantle cause and effect