Andrei Rikichi's debut album, "Caged Birds Think Flying Is An Illness" was released on Bearsuit Records on the 31st August 2022

Andrei Rikichi is a former member and co-founder of the Belgian collective, The Unaccountable Red Mist Orchestra

contact: andreirikichi@gmail.com
https://soundcloud.com/bearsuitrecords

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Andrei Rikichi - "Caged Birds Think Flying Is An Illness" (BS056)

Yes, indeed once again Bearsuit Records have released an album crammed with original thought-provoking music that is both experimental but also very listenable. An album that takes electronica, dance and cinematic sculptures to a new and experimental place, a place where white noise and James Bond soundtracks collide to great and unusual effect...
[Monolith Cocktail]

Un album frammentato nella scaletta, ma intimamente coeso, con brani che si pongono come delle piccole storie spesso sarcastiche e grandguignolesche. Un esordio convincente per un musicista a nostro parere da seguire...
[Europa e Cultura Elettronica]

Whilst sliding down the slippery, blood-soaked slope of the horror show ‘They Don’t See The Maelstrom’, you’ll appreciate Rikichi’s command of the studio and all its inherent madness and tricks, like a mad scientist version of Carl Stalling ...And ‘Death Of A Postmaster’ is one of the most beautifully sombre pieces of funeral music you’ll hear this year
[It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine]

Disque habillé de liberté et de magnificence, où le grandiloquent se fait éclatant, où la beauté s’habille de noirceur, où la musique reflète la complexité de l’Homme. Sublime
[Silence & Sound]

It’s disjointed, weird, confusing, sometimes harsh, occasionally melodic, and it makes me happy that there are still companies out there like Bearsuit who remind us all there are still folks out there pushing the boundaries of how we define what music is...
[Set The Tape]

Caged Birds Think Flying is a Sickness leaves you feeling addled and in a spin. It’s uncanny because it’s familiar, but it isn’t, as the different elements and layers intersect. It’s the sonic representation of the way in which life and perception differ as they collide
[Aural Aggravation]

A music project by eleni aka Manekinekod aka Giganta
contact: magnitophono@gmail.com


I have been, am being, will be an ordinary farmer.  
(´ー`)y━~~

終活

Ageing Children are : Frank and Chuck Children (ex Kennel Club)

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Ageing Children - "Live" (BS049 - 2020) is now available from Bearsuit Records:
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live

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Ageing Children - "Strummin'" (BS030 - 2015) is now available from Bearsuit Records :
http://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/strummin

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Ageing Children's debut album, "Ageing Children" (BS021 - 2013) is now available from Bearsuit Records:
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ageing-children

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Ageing Children's track "The Kennel Club" features on the Bearsuit Records V/A album, "Run Over By An Elevator" (BS017 - 2012) available from Bearsuit Records:
http://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-run-over-by-an-elevator

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contact : agingchildren@hotmail.com

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Ageing Children - "Strummin'" (BS030) 

An ominous sleepy headed moocher [‘Slow Motion Stampede’] which if I didn’t know any better sounds not unlike the Grails totally out of it on industrial strength tranqs marooned amid the cold minimalist landscapes of New Order’s ‘movement’. 
[Mark Barton - The Sunday Experience] 

The twelve tracks explore the fringes of modern music, a place where most artists would not dare to follow. This album is about experimentation and not about crafting another set of mundane pop songs. 
[Floorshime Zipper Boots] 

Another fearsome slab of genius from Bearsuit Records 
[Steve Bromley/Gnomefoam] 

No-fi-electro-rock-n-ambient-noise-pop makers, Ageing Children. It sounds all right to me. It's what we need more of on BBC Radio Lancashire. It's what we're crying out for. There's just just not enough of them around. 
[Steve Barker - “On The Wire”] 

If you're looking for a bit of weirdness in your life then you could do worse than finding Bearsuit Records – and the disturbingly monikered Ageing Children. Guaranteed to screw up any sort of peaceful thoughts you're having in the evening... Rather marvellous! 
[Keith Whitham - “Wired”] 

Really impressive album! A touch of genius 
[Tom Byrne - Primal Radio] 

Fantastic tunes from the excellent "Strummin" LP by Ageing Children 
[Phil Vickery - “In-Tune”] 


https://soundcloud.com/bearsuitrecords

Whizz Kid are J-Kane (Belgium) and Harold Nono (Scotland)

The debut album from Whizz Kid, "There's Conjuring To Be Done" on Bearsuit Records (BS026 - 2014) is now available from Bearsuit Records, i-Tunes, Amazon, Spotify etc. - or here :
http://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/theres-conjuring-to-be-done

contact :
whizz_kid@live.com

https://soundcloud.com/bearsuitrecords

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Whizz Kid - “There’s Conjuring To Be Done” (BS026) 

An amazing LP! I really urge you all to get hold of it… you’ll  love it! (Phil Vickery - “In-Tune” BCfm)

These whizz kids sure sound like they’re having a blast and you’ll easily find yourself caught up in their happy party tunes. A children’s album for adults? Or maybe it’s an adult album that the kids can get into as well? No matter. Either way, it’s a refreshing concept, flawlessly executed, and a total joy from beginning to end. (Jeff Penczak - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine) 

“There’s Conjuring to Be Done” never ceases to entertain and have you pressing the repeat button to re-imagine the experience all over again. I’m of the firm belief that its authors (Yo Yo Nielsen and J-Kane) are mischief makers and that what lies within will astound, amaze and amuse all who enter its fried domain.  (The Sunday Experience)

There’s Conjuring to Be Done” is both organic and electronic, instrument-driven and toytronic, landing halfway between Lullatone and Twink.  As such, it’s an immensely appealing, happy sounding record. (A Closer Listen)

Whizz Kid and “Kid Santa” from the album “There’s Conjuring To Be Done” - from the marvellous Bearsuit Records label (Tom Ravenscroft - BBC 6 Music)

Experimental music is often a double-edged sword, but in the case of Whizz Kid, I was positively surprised. Especially the first 4 tracks [they] are pure genius! (Pascal Thiel - DisAgreement)

So delicious! Tubular Bells for toddlers! (Weerthof)

This is a lovely thing! [“falling out of trees…”] (Fenny - “On The Wire” BBC Radio Lancashire)

I’m liking this! [“Summer Bubbles”] (Marc Riley  - BBC 6 Music)

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Whizz Kid - "The Yellow & Blue" (EP) :

To say that Whizz Kid defy genre categorisation would be beyond the realms of mere understatement. Avant-garde electronic genius might be a more apt way of defining what they're about. (Whisperinandhollerin)

Much like other Bearsuit artists, Whizz Kid sound like they’re in a world of their own but they possess the spirit of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop allied with the sweetly nostalgic noise of Black Moth Super Rainbow. 
(Leonard’s Lair)

The Yellow & Blue EP by Whizz Kid is an interesting and compelling piece of work. Whizz Kid make an interesting blend of dreamy funk fuelled breakbeat and smokey electronica that sounds like it came from the back of beyond. (The Sonic Mine Field)

Whizz Kid you slyly suspect may well prove to be in time the labels impish enfant terrible. Impishly inspired. (The Sunday Experience)

This really is an EP well worth a listen. "The Yellow & Blue" is a great window into the darker side of electronic music. (Digitalgig)

“Summer Bubbles” : a jubilant piano-and-glockenspiel-laden romp from Whizz Kid (Textura)

Whizz Kid’s tracks all have something seductively foreboding about them. (Altsounds)

Child like melodies (courtesy of bubbly synth and xylophone respectively) with threatening distorted bass vocals. strangely intriguing. (Tasty Fanzine)

"Summer Bubbles" : Sparky's magic piano gets treated with anti psychotic medication after getting trapped in the grooves of a Riuchi Sakamoto record. Curiously unsettling. (Bluesbunny)

三上僚太 / Ryota Mikami

Artist and co-founder of Vegetable Record.

Eamon The Destroyer - "The Maker's Quit" (BS068)
(Released: 05.09.25)
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-makers-quit

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Eamon The Destroyer - "Radio Sessions" EP (BS066)
(Released: 31.01.25)
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/radio-sessions

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Eamon The Destroyer - "Alternate Piranhas" EP (BS064)
(Released: 31.05.24)
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/alternate-piranhas-ep

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Eamon The Destroyer - "We'll Be Piranhas" (BS061)
(Released: 31.10.23)
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/well-be-piranhas

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The album, Eamon The Destroyer: "A Small Blue Car - Re-made/Re-modelled"
(Released : 21.10.22)
(featuring remixes from Ryota Mikami, Bigflower, Schizo Fun Addict, John 3:16, Misawa Masanori, The Moth Poet, Société Cantine, Ememe, Michael Valentine West, Yuuya Kuno, Andrei Rikichi, Stricknice, Takumi Toki, Yponeko, Harold Nono and Senji Niban) 
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-small-blue-car-re-made-re-modelled

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Eamon The Destroyer - "A Small Blue Car"
(Released : 12.11.21)
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-small-blue-car

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https://soundcloud.com/bearsuitrecords
contact :
eamondestroy@gmail.com

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Eamon The Destroyer - "We'll Be Piranhas" (BS061)

Performed with a wit and wisdom only matched by the beauty and musical genre hopping extravagance not seen since John Peel dropped his record collection down three flights of stairs... A madness of electronica, psychedelia, dance and pop; at times sounding like an inspired Momus sharing magic mushroom soup with Cornelius and Ivor Cutler. Yes, there is magic in these tracks that one can lie back and completely lose themselves in
[Monolith Cocktail]

[ETD] has gone from strength to strength – to the extent that his output has erupted, Godzilla-like, expanding and flexing immense musical muscles. Incredibly intimate, with tension building from the introspective minimalism of the songs. We’ll be Piranhas finds ETD really going all-out to try stuff. And the result is brain-bending
[Aural Aggravation]

Of the purest of joys in listening to Eamon the Destroyer is the feeling that there is no blueprint. And each track spends part of the time fruitfully not finding one, but, as if looking. If that's a foible then so fucking what. This is incredible music with the emphasis on their incredible making... Eamon is in control when all around him, are maybe not.
[Outsideleft]

Deformirani nadrealizam elektroakustičnog neo-popa iz Edinburgha
[Terapija]

Good as ever. Complex as ever. No song is a straight verse-chorus-verse – nothing like that is ever going to happen. It's always going to be full of interesting arrangements, arcs and changes. An adventurous musician. I highly recommend We'll Be Piranhas
[Club Integral Radio Show, Resonance FM]

Wilfully quirky stuff! King Creosote meets Swell Maps vibes...
[Velvet Sheep, Repeater Radio]

Still nothing like anything: a second bout of beautiful noise... “We’ll Be Piranhas” has much more assertiveness about it, yet Eamon’s romanticism upped the ante too, in terms of both sonic spectrum and melodic meander, although The Destroyer’s avant-garde leanings are still tangible here. And that’s exactly where the album’s thrills reside
[DMME.net]

Having entered the odd realm of Eamon The Destroyer, as with his first album A Small Blue Car this packs enough ideas for a whole album into each song
[Whisperinandhollerin]

Eamon The Destroyer returns with a sophomore release that continues to destroy minds and reap rewards by tantalizing us with perplexing WTF’s like the marching band-on-acid electro glitchfest ‘The Choirmaster.’
[It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine]

Il nuovo album di Eamon The Destroyer è ancora una volta estroso e riflessivo. Sfida i generi musicali, stimolando la mente e catturando l'attenzione degli ascoltatori con la sua intimità, tensione e pura creatività. È un viaggio attraverso l'elettronica, la psichedelia e il folk-pop, dove ogni brano offre qualcosa di nuovo e inaspettato. Consigliato agli ascoltatori che apprezzano la musica che rompe gli schemi.
[Europa e cultrura elettronica]

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Eamon The Destroyer - “A Small Blue Car - Re-made/Re-modelled” (BS057)

A remix album of the excellent Eamon The Destroyer album, and this is a rare thing as I actually prefer it to the original, and I enjoyed the original a great deal. A Small Blue Car… is another overwhelming success of a release taking the experimental and layering it with blankets of alternative pop electronica warmth
[Monolith Cocktail]

Bearsuit is a close-knit community of musicologists and risk-takers who love to push the envelope beyond traditional musical forms. A very interesting and, as always with Bearsuit, an occasional challenging listen. [The album] gives you an excellent cross section of the state of today’s electronic and experimental music scene.
Jeff Penczak
[It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine]

A Small Blue Car – Re-Made/Remodelled is a source of pleasure, not only because it’s genuinely interesting, but simply because it exists. An absolute triumph!
[Aural Aggravation] 

Great album!
[Louder Than War]

The fabulous “Nothing Like Anything” by Like This Parade caresses the listener’s ears, its pseudo-orchestral treatment by Senji Niban will stress how impeccably the coherence of “A Small Blue Car” is preserved here. Here’s a vehicle that’s able to run in every make, in every guise and with every trim: an all-terrain type of transport to carry passengers beyond the pale
[DMME.net]

It's the kind of methamphetamine of weird songs [“Tomahawk Den” - Societe Cantine Remix)].  What's he doing?! I don't know but it's fascinating! A sort of song in there but the structures are perplexing and challenging and intriguing... Bearsuit Records – really worth checking out. There's some really great music on there...
[Club Integral Radio Show – Resonance FM]

Awesome stuff!
[From One Extreme To Another] 

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Eamon The Destroyer - “A Small Blue Car” (BS053)

Excellent album!
[River Gibbs FM]

Distinct and mind-spinning music. Engaging, disarming and thoroughly individual, [Humanity Is Coming] is a track that stands out from the pack for all the right reasons
[Neil March - Trust The Doc]

I'm very much enjoying a record [A Small Blue Car] by Eamon The Destroyer that's been sent by the excellent label Bearsuit Records
[Stuart Maconie, Freak Zone - BBC6 Music]

Brilliant stuff!
[On The Wire – BBC Radio Lancashire]

This album once again shows there is powerful, extremely original music being released and being ignored by the so-called tastemakers in 2021. Another gem from the Bearsuit label then: just add it to their ever-growing list
[Monolith Cocktail]

Everything on it is totally terrific! Really quite excellent!
[In-Tune – Bcfm]

Like Flaming Lips in a burning tumble dryer
[Truth & Lies Music / Radio alHara]

[My Drive] is a strong piece...freaky change and great mood... impressed!
[Ivor Perry – Big Flower/Easterhouse]

A fine new single [Silver Shadow] from Eamon The Destroyer. Great Stuff!
[Mark Whitby - Dandelion Radio]

Like Stereolab on ketamine
[Aural Aggravation]

Attesting to the huge goodness of this...
[Glove Of Bones]

It’s unforgettable. Lo-fi miserable nonsense with a heart of gold and a head of cobwebs. Just what we’ve come to expect and love from Bearsuit
[It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine]

Super cool!
[Perturb Radio]

Sweet lo-fi Sparklehorse vibes. Nice!
[Adrian Nicolls]

Brilliant release!
[Space Is The Place Radio Show]

Very cinematic. Like digital psychedelia. Actually this is great! [Silver Shadow] Skilfully put together – and quite a mysterious little piece
[Club Integral Radio Show]

His musical constructions are as intricate as they're insane. Audio think-pieces - all of which are greater than great
[Bizarrechats]

What an album! “Mind-spinning”- I totally agree
[Alexander Stordiau]

Ciò che convince dell'album è l'articolazione tra il songwriting e le partiture sonore, messe sempre sullo stesso livello come a voler impregnare le parole di significati più evasivi e opprimenti. Consigliato a chi ama la musica di Flaming Lips, Tindersticks, Grouper, Sparklehorse
[Europa e cultura elettronica]

Black Bear Catapult are : Ippu Mitsui and Jimmy Finlayson

https://soundcloud.com/bearsuitrecords
https://soundcloud.com/ippu-mitsui
https://www.facebook.com/ippumitsuimusic/

contact : blackbearcatapult@gmail.com

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Black Bear Catapult - “The Laughing House” (BS043)


Wonderful track [Leopold Checks In At The Laughing House]! Very nice, another fine example of Bearsuit Records excellence
[Phil Vickery, In-Tune, Bcfm]

A slice of strangeness. Jittery, jumpy, overenergized, this release positively twitches with a stroboscopic kineticism
[Christopher Nosnibor – Aural Aggravation]

Both surreal and abstract, Black Bear Catapult craft an oddly alluring palette ...manages to wander along a crookedly lysergic landscape that strays delightfully between minimalist glitch groove, 70’s pastoral nostalgia – with a subtle nod to Ghost Box et al, mutant lounge dialects, quirky jazz doodles and the lost art of fun
[Mark Barton - The Sunday Experience]

Hyperactive beat with a mooching melody pushes my buttons
[Henry Courgette]

I've featured Ippu Mitsui before - but of course anything on your label already has a stamp of quality on it!
[Norman X Sane - Fylde Coast Radio]

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Black Bear Catapult - ‘Leopold Checks In At The Laughing house"

You can always count on the Scotland based imprint Bearsuit for your occasional sonic diet of the erratic and skewed. Not known for their playing by the rules abilities, they’ve forged a path that’s been beautifully bizarre and crookedly wayward not to mention so left field it’s on a different pitch whilst all the daubed with a sunny sided childlike innocence. Latest to their slyly expanding canon, a two track release sneaked out by Black Bear Catapult, a meeting of warped minds between Ippu Mitsui and Jimmy Finlayson, the latter of whom goes under so many musical disguises it’s a surprise he doesn’t suffer an identity crisis...
Anyhow, two tracker, incidentally titled ‘the laughing house’ of which only the lead track ‘Leopold checks in at the laughing house’ is available on the band camp previewer. As ever with Bearsuit groove, both surreal and abstract, black bear catapult craft an oddly alluring palette which aside destined to appeal to those folk much missing the ear wares of Soft Bodies, manages to wander along a crookedly lysergic landscape that strays delightfully between minimalist glitch groove, 70’s pastoral nostalgia – with a subtle nod to Ghost Box et al, mutant lounge dialects, quirky jazz doodles and the lost art of fun, file under screwball and sit it alongside your early Casino vs. japan and frank wobbly and sons oddities.
[Mark Barton - The Sunday Experience]

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Black Bear Catapult - ‘Leopold Checks In At The Laughing house"

This one seemingly pinged in from nowhere finds BBC (that’s Black Bear Catapult, which consists of Ippu Mitsui and Jimmy Finlayson) deliver a slice of strangeness that combines hyperactive electropop backing of spacey synths which wibble and warp against a drum machine which flitters and stutters frenetically as if its programmer is on a rush of sugar and caffeine, bursting into double-time seemingly on a whim. Jittery, jumpy, overenergised, this release positively twitches with a stroboscopic kineticism. There’s a nice strolling bassline that emerges here and there during ‘Leopold Checks In At The Laughing House’, and while the overall tone is playful and a little bit daft, it’s something you can groove to. And I’m down with that!
{Christopher Nosnibor – Aural Aggravation]

Haq are: N-qia (Nozomi & Takma aka Serph) & Harold Nono

https://soundcloud.com/harold-nono
https://soundcloud.com/n-qia

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The Haq album, "Evaporator" (BS044) is available from Bearsuit Records, I-Tunes, Amazon etc.
bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/evaporator

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The debut album from Haq, "Nocturnals" is available from Bearsuit Records, i-Tunes, Amazon, Spotify etc.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/nocturnals-Haq/dp/B00BH15WN6

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/nocturnals/id605799157

http://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnals

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contact : haqpeople@gmail.com

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Haq - “Evaporator” (BS044)

The new release from the fine Bearsuit Records finds us tumbling down to the spiralling sounds of Haq; 60s spy theme sexiness merges with the avant-garde dreampop of a bewitched Stereolab playing hopscotch with Delia Derbyshire whilst sucking on the feedback of a JAMC lollipop. This album really is a beautiful work of aural magic and makes for quite a moving experience: maybe there is a God after all.
[Monolith Cocktail] 

It’s way, way out there, strange and bewildering. It’s a headfuck, but that’s not a criticism - it's the weird and wonderful world of Haq...
[Aural Aggravation]

Of course, being Haq there’s always that possibility that things will go south and rattle your expectations and morph into something resembling Captain Beefheart or the Residents crossed with Faust and Einstürzende Neubauten on summer holiday at the beach! 
[It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine]

A really great thing! Loved the whole thang! A great album all round...
[On The Wire – BBC Radio Lancashire]

Wonderful stuff! An excellent LP. … It really is pristine. Bearsuit Records continue to amplify in every compass direction of the continent of excellence! This is a really exceptional LP
[In-Tune, Bcfm]

Great stuff as usual... Very good indeed!
[Aural Delights]

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Haq - "Nocturnals" (BS20)

Nocturnals is one of those rare albums that mixes extreme experimentation with pop beauty and actually works. A gorgeous album, and one whose timing could not be better. This is a perfect spring record. Some sun, some rain, some flowering, some cold spells. A must listen.
Simon Tucker
[Louder than War] 

Gorgeous debut of the collaborative album from Haq between Tokyo-based dynamic duo N-qia by adorable singer Nozomi and programmer Takma and Edinburgh-based multifarious musician Harold Nono. Original and highly enjoyable. Have a listen!
Vito Camarretta
[Chain D.L.K.] 

Haq have hatched the simply immaculate ’Nocturnals’. with ghost like delight this twelve track set is tenderly and sublimely seduced to a landscape that’s glitch glowed and immersed in an after lights out cool sophistication. Imagine a heavenly blissed out this mortal coil being reframed by a lo-fi glitch geared Goldfrapp. Disturbingly beautiful all said.
Mark Barton 
[The Sunday Experience]

On my final run through it seemed that every song had some unique and wonderful moments but I also came to the conclusion that Haq could have produced a damn near perfect pop record but instead of choosing the easy and obvious path in a song, they repeatedly take the least expected route. It’s easy to love this album for the little slice of hazy summer sun that it is.
Kim Monaghan
[Sitting Now ]

[Bees In My Feet] Noisy but really quite subtle and beautiful. A wonderful, wonderful sound!
[Track of the Week - Amazing Beats, Amazing Radio]

Experimental electronica that’s compelling, odd, and oddly compelling. ‘Nocturnals’ is an arresting record that will stutter and shiver its way into the psyche, whether you want it to or not.
Christopher Nosnibor
[Whisperinandhollerin]

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