spoken word

Not Turning Off: Volume 11

A mix of wares from The Heartwood Institute & Hawksmoor, The Eccentronic Research Council, Polypores & Gareth E. Rees and The Home Current

Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (Rock Action)

Arab Strap explore the darkness of human exploits on the wistful and polished As Days Get Dark, their first album since 2005

Danalogue x Alabaster dePlume – I Was Not Sleeping (Total Refreshment Centre)

Danalogue and Alabaster dePlume hitch a wild ride together with a freewheeling studio set for Total Refreshment Centre

Mark Fisher & Justin Barton – On Vanishing Land (Flatlines)

Hyperdub inaugurate their spoken word imprint with Mark Fisher and Justin Barton’s psychogeographical meditation on disappearance and the Suffolk coast

Justin Hopper: The Thin Place on My Map Mixtape

Justin Hopper has made an invitingly out of place and out of time mixtape for Concrete Islands to accompany the Chanctonbury Rings album on Ghost Box

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