Merseyside wizard returns with hypnotic, enveloping industrial-tinged electronica and aching trip-pop, recorded in an old factory owned by the KLF. Genre bending ancient-futurist psychedelic, with stunning sound design and emotional skill: one foot in a peat bog, one on a dancefloor. Neneh Cherry features. My local Resident records album of the week — [Bandcamp]
Listen if you like: Burial jamming with Massive Attack while Bjork, The Knife and Trent Reznor smoke a blunt on the sofa
Maria BC - Spike Field
Airy ambient and piano plucks clash with reverby processed vocals and campfire chorals, recorded in the home of a family friend. Light, flighty soundscapes mixed with intimate under-the-duvet vocal takes. — [Bandcamp]
Listen if you like: Julianna Barwick and Nils Frahm at a Hallowe’en party at a beach house
Lost Girls - Selvutsletter
Ice cold Scandi indie pop, with a fuzzy post-punk edge, from Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden’s duo project. Minimalist drum machine and throbbing guitar with pops and splashes of occasional colour dotted around. — [Bandcamp]
Listen if you like: Warpaint at a Siouxsie and the Banshees gig in Norway
Cher - Christmas
Ageless legend releases her first festive album. Yes, I know it’s only October, but it’s Cher so she can do what she fucking likes.
Galya Bisengalieva- Polygon (classical/drone) Glen Hansard- All That Is East Is West Of Me Now (indie folk) Myrkur- Spine (Black metal/folk/ambient) Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter- Saved! (experimental folk/ambient) Klein- Touched By An Angel (experimental/R&B/drone)
Katie Von Schleicher - A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night
“Lyrically wry and classically lush with strings and horns, it’s a songwriter album that nuzzles up to the Arthur Russell and Kirsty MacColl LPs in one’s record collection”
Feel like people may skim past the OP Cher Christmas album, which will really be highly notable as a direct contributor to the decline of human civilisation.
Chicago rapper Vic teams up with producer August Fanon for a fourth installment of his Psychological Cheat Sheet series. Expect braggadocio raps over soulful production. Hip-Hop/Rap
His broadest and most diverse project yet, the 11-track project moves from deep house to jazz, from ambience to the percussive charge of afrobeat. It’s all held together by his singular sense of purpose and that trademark vivacity; deftly finessed, it’s an album that works as a form of musical autobiography.
