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Not Turning Off: Volume 13

Two divergent takes on loner explorations from The All Golden and Dean McPhee go under the review microscope

Leaning into the Spaces: Burd Ellen Interview

Burd Ellen’s Debbie Armour talks to Gareth Thompson about sacred dramas, Mary as an Ever Mother and taxidermy wrens

Polypores – Flora (Castles In Space)

Stephen James Buckley continues the transmogrification of Polypores, with arguably his most alluring and hypnotic album to date

Steve Nolan – From Water / Ream (Spun out of Control)

Steve Nolan’s double cassette set of ambient dream music opens up portals, reroutes neural pathways and unlocks associative trains of thought

Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch – An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil (Sacred Bones)

Jozef and Jim’s experimental lute and guitar drones form an occult music for thin places which lingers and insinuates through cosmic visions

Production Unit – Why Do the Birds Sing? (Broken20)

Production Unit’s planet conscious soundscapes are La Jetée as sonic collage: warnings from the future embedded in the now

The Silver Field – Rooms (O Genesis)

The Silver Field’s debut album grants access to a hermetic world of sound alive with psychedelic drones, alien apparitions and inverted dreams

Rapt – Rapt

Rapt is where early nineties R&S Records style techno is stripped and slowed into ambient drone works for sleepless nights

Penelope Trappes – Penelope Two (Houndstooth)

Penelope Trappes’s second album delivers beautifully unsettling art installation dream pop while exploring interior worlds and minimal industrial zones