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A second 2024 review package, featuring fresh and archival wares from Rupert Lally, Dean McPhee, Aircooled, Essential Logic and more
A broad spread of freshly-pressed sounds from The Declining Winter, Gilroy Mere, Death And Vanilla, Jilk, The Van Pelt and more
Some of 2022’s last new and archival wares face scrutiny. Including things from Moving Statues, Suzy Mangion, Sairie, Andy Bell and others
Stephen Pastel tells the story behind the Geographic label as they embark upon reissues by The Pastels, Maher Shalal Hash Baz and Lightships
CLAIR talks music-making, microdosing and the magic of Glasgow to mark the release of her Body Blossom – Revelations EP
Glasgow new wave of avant-garde artist CLAIR builds on the promise of her debut album with a submersive and ecstatic digital single
Another mound of new and excavated artefacts from The Hardy Tree, Sam Prekop & John McEntire, Michael Tanner, Marine Research and others
With Wayward, Vashti Bunyan disidentifies her story from its countercultural return-to-nature mythology, writes Alice Keeling
An album with its own secret geography, A Letter from TreeTops finds Woodstock-born Jesse Chandler perfectly at home on Ghost Box Records
Fresh works from D Rothon & Oliver Cherer and Stomatopod arrive alongside archival bundles from Heavenly and The Weather Prophets
Works from David Boulter, The British Stereo Collective, Apta and more are sifted as the shutters come down on a release-heavy year
A double bill of Ghost Box and Clay Pipe, with Pye Corner Audio and The Hardy Tree making sonic journeys into speculative fiction
A spread of sounds from the Second Language and Gare du Nord label families, Marisa Anderson and William Tyler, Blyth and Ghostwriter
Andrew Wasylyk talks about reasonable daydreams, meeting migratory geese and the making of his intoxicating new LP for Clay Pipe Music
A sifted slew of electronically-reared produce from Heron & Crane, The Voice of Saturn, Ben Winter, clocolon and Rupert Lally
Reflections on ten tremendous years of Clay Pipe Music, with founder Frances Castle, through ten totemic releases
New albums from Cheval Sombre, Plankton Wat and Isnaj Dui shift through several shades and shapes of self-seclusion
Another choice compilation from Second Language and a fifth album from Songs of Green Pheasant shine soothing light into our winter gloom
To mark the release of new LP Adlestrop, the real Gilroy Mere talks to Stewart Gardiner about Clay Pipe Music, the Beeching Report and avoiding nostalgia
Jon Brooks’s How to Get to Spring on Clay Pipe Music invites nature indoors with a set of beautifully necessary pastoral electronics
Stewart Gardiner shares the records he played out at the end of January and discusses bringing hip hop into the world of Concrete Islands
Stewart Gardiner wanders down a holloway into an out of time world to speak with Vic Mars about his Inner Roads and Outer Paths LP for Clay Pipe
Stewart Gardiner explores the delicate microcosmic worlds of Kama Aina in this archive feature from Plan B magazine