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It is at times quiet and hypnotizing, but also intense and dissonant, strange and haunting.
It is audacious and unexpected, with a diverse yet cohesive set of sounds / instrumentation, starting with the delicately beautiful "Futile Devices" and ending with the epic 25+ minute "Impossible Soul".
And the inspiration for the album is fascinating, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Adz
If you haven't heard or haven't listened in a while, give it a spin! 🤘😘
Feb 15, 2025
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here's a completely under the radar gem of weirdo bedroom folk pop filled with bubblings of synths and fluttering flutes and random eclectic acoustic instrumentations, fragments of hooks and choruses, digressions into distortions and reemergences of natural ambiances with waterfall sounds, harps, xylophones, all mixed together in such a wonderful and fascinating way and i've been obsessed now for months... it sounds to me as if daniel johnston in his prime had access to a DAW.
May 10, 2024
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Can't pick favourites so I'm letting myself choose a bunch :) Sue me
Mogwai Fear Satan, Mogwai —A quarter of an hour of post-rock with a beautiful, beautiful build.
It Never Entered My Mind, Miles Davis Quintet — Feels a bit cheaty because it's jazz and there definitely are lyrics inspiring the lead melody.. still wonderful for pensive late-night walks.
Earth Moon Transit, Duster — if you haven't sat back and spent time with this album, what are you doing? Clear an evening and put it on repeat. Yes, technically it has lyrics. Personally I barely hear them.
Prologue, Kamasi Washington — Such powerful energy on the closing track of last year's album.
Blade Runner Blues, Vangelis — the song that made me fall in love with synthesisers.
Jan 6, 2025
Only one album out rn (The Moviegoer), yes this is my husband’s music project! I play on it too now and more coming soon :))) if you’re in LA (or anywhere) keep an eye out on our insta— we’re playing more and more shows and some shows in NY and hopefully Manchester on the map too!!
“Introducing a revisionist exotica for these times…aquatic synths & drum machines, slide guitars & santoors, stray trumpets and accordion...ethno-industrial, dub, and samples from a fifty-year old suitcase of cassettes...
The major catalyst was a suitcase of twenty cassettes my father unearthed from his teenage years in Iran, recorded between 1972-1975, taping DJ monologues off the radio, lines of movie dialogue off the TV, radio plays, spoken word translations of European pop...
That made it a kind of excavation of a bygone time, a travelogue to a place accessed only through cultural artifact & collective memory. An imaginary soundtrack to a half-remembered movie from a faraway place.”
Apr 30, 2024
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These books expertly combine genre vibes of mystery, science fiction, eldritch horror, espionage, and more, all wrapped in beautifully written, "literary" prose. And Vandermeer's clear affection for nature buoy's all of the above, containing some of the most lovely, evocative, and creative descriptions of plants, animals, and environments/ecosystems.
Oh and Jeff just released a new Southern Reach trilogy prequel / sequel novel, Absolution. I'll be reading this after finishing a reread of the original trilogy (currently on the second book Authority). Looking forward to giving Acceptance another shot, as it was the weakest (or least accessible to me) of the three when I first read them years ago.
Feb 7, 2025