soundtrack
Jim O’Rourke’s eerily captivating motion picture soundtrack for Hands That Bind is a vital addition to his Drag City catalogue
The polymathic Stephen Coates accounts for the belated full return and phased retirement of The Real Tuesday Weld
Tindersticks veteran David Boulter takes us behind the conceptual childhood seaside scenes of his debut solo album on Clay Pipe Music
Jazz pianist Greg Foat brings Symphonie Pacifique, his latest masterful concoction of jazz, library music and pastoral composition, to Strut Records
David Lynch gives voice to unreliable simian singer Jack Cruz for this 7″ of noir-surreal DIY torch songs on Sacred Bones
Stewart Gardiner shares the records he played out at the end of January and discusses bringing hip hop into the world of Concrete Islands
The synth-based tracks of Jorja Chalmers’s deep-dreaming debut Human Again are a cartography of unreal things that feel very real indeed
After soundtracking John Wyndam’s Day of the Triffids for the Bibliotapes label, Rupert Lally has turned to a David Cronenberg inspired mixtape
Dean Hurley leaves the town of Twin Peaks behind with his second volume of reality-disintegrating ambient soundscapes under the Anthology Resource banner
Steve Nolan’s double cassette set of ambient dream music opens up portals, reroutes neural pathways and unlocks associative trains of thought
Writer and musician Mark Brend has compiled an End Times mixtape to pull listeners into the unsettling world of his debut novel Undercliff
The Shining Levels have dug deep into the hills to create an earthy and visionary musical accompaniment to Benjamin Myers’ novel The Gallows Pole
Ross Blake’s soundtrack to Pretty en Rose evokes the magical, odd and unmade of European cinema, and is reissued on limited edition white vinyl
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
Anthony DP Mann reads the weird fiction Carcosan classic to a score by Goblin keyboard manipulator Maurizio Guarani on this reissue from Cadabra Records
Le SuperHomard’s French pop music may be a parallel universe St Etienne and Meadow Lane Park the soundtrack playing in Antoine Doinel’s head
This exclusive mix for Concrete Islands by synth and soundtrack master Steve Moore turns the energy up and leaves the cold behind
The Paralian is the first great album of 2019, a beautifully instinctive, naturally textured work of analogue ambient haunted by the North Sea
Radiophonic cues seep out from liminal spaces on Possum and electronic groans give way to fragile piano work on White Boy Rick
The Earth Recordings release of the gently narcotic Bagpuss soundtrack reveals the cat behind the curtain in a ready-made sample suite for hauntologists everywhere
Isolated from the Netflix documentary, Brocker Way’s score suggests different musical paths and evokes new narratives