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ToiToiToi – Vaganten (Ghost Box)

Germany’s ToiToiToi returns to Ghost Box with Vaganten, an LP of wayward electronics, Medieval plunderphonics and Chaucerian machine music

Plone – Puzzlewood (Ghost Box)

Retro-futurists Plone return after two decades with Puzzlewood, a magical mechanical mystery record that couldn’t be more at home on Ghost Box

Listening Center – Diaphanous Structures (Temporary Tapes)

David Mason takes a far more meditative but no less effective turn with this new digital-only Listening Center long-player

Jon Brooks – How to Get to Spring (Clay Pipe Music)

Jon Brooks’s How to Get to Spring on Clay Pipe Music invites nature indoors with a set of beautifully necessary pastoral electronics

More Like a School Orchestra: Vic Mars Interview

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

Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus with The Belbury Poly – Chanctonbury Rings (Ghost Box)

Justin Hopper, Sharron Kraus and Belbury Poly have brought the thinnest of places to vivid life in this oddly comforting avant-garde wonder

Dalham – Heat Death (Castles In Space)

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

Summoning Radiophonic Hounds: The Dark Outside and Bibliotapes Interview

The Dark Outside’s Stuart McLean talks to Stewart Gardiner about avoiding digital, hollowing out old books and his new soundtracks-for-books cassette label

Clesse – Clesse (Café Kaput)

Jon Brooks’s latest project for his Café Kaput digital label takes a left turn into techno and acid house, and is just as thrilling as anything he’s done

Situational Sound and Music: The Radiophonic Workshop and Max Richter

Radiophonic cues seep out from liminal spaces on Possum and electronic groans give way to fragile piano work on White Boy Rick