soundscapes

Black Deer – Black Deer (Huntleys + Palmers)

Black Deer’s self-titled album for Glasgow’s Huntleys + Palmers label offers detailed dancefloor transmissions in abstract techno form

Burial – Tunes 2011 to 2019 (Hyperdub)

Burial makes a vital sonic pilgrimage with Tunes 2011 to 2019, a carefully curated collection that inhabits past, present and future

Automatic Invention: Alexander Tucker Interview

Alexander Tucker talks to Stewart Gardiner about Alan Moore’s Providence, panspermia and multi-dimensional imagery in Guild of the Asbestos Weaver

Carter Tutti Void – Triumvirate (Conspiracy International)

Carter Tutti Void bring their collaboration to a close with third album Triumvirate, an exploratory set of enveloping post-techno compositions

Dean Hurley – Anthology Resource Vol II: Philosophy of Beyond (Sacred Bones)

Dean Hurley leaves the town of Twin Peaks behind with his second volume of reality-disintegrating ambient soundscapes under the Anthology Resource banner

The Space Between: June 2019

Stewart Gardiner’s The Space Between column is intended to pull together reviews that almost never were, preventing them from falling through the cracks

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

Richard Skelton – Border Ballads (Corbel Stone Press)

Richard Skelton has unearthed ambient transmissions from deep time and pressed them into the present with this album of hinterland inspired compositions

Kinbrae – Landforms (Truant Recordings)

Kinbrae’s second LP is an enchanting psychogeographic evocation of the River Tay that channels the cycle of renewal through analogue ambient soundscapes

Robert W Chambers – The Yellow Sign (Cadabra)

Anthony DP Mann reads the weird fiction Carcosan classic to a score by Goblin keyboard manipulator Maurizio Guarani on this reissue from Cadabra Records

Cosey Fanni Tutti – TUTTI (Conspiracy International)

TUTTI is an abstract autobiographical study rendered in dark, sensuous electronics that conveys a hallucinatory experiencing of the past in the present

Bank of Forever – Music for Navigating (Temporary Tapes)

Bank of Forever’s post-industrial transmissions from slow rooms are maze-like staging areas that dismantle cause and effect

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