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Akuma

Another track from Köhn's new album 'Kreis Plön', out on KRAAK, on the 9th of June. Pre-order at kraak.bandcamp.com.

Almost 20 years ago Jürgen De Blonde debuted on KRAAK with the nowadays unfindable and almost visionary album köhn 1. It was the starting point for a vital and wondrous exploration that lead him over paths of glitch, idm, shoe gaze, hypnagogic pop, improvised music, straight forward synth music, field recordings and kraut. 

In the middle of this ungraspable adventure through contemporary electronic music, Köhn stands as a genuine artist that stayed true to the curious spirit of the DIY knob twiddling and boggling boy he once was. 

KRAAK is proud to present his 7th album on KRAAK — Kreis Plön, which documents and envisions 20 years of exploring. It’s an album that is about a fusion of the past and the future, of separation and reconfiguration, of mourning and rejoicing, of noise and peace. Kreis Plön is about geolocation. It’s about probable fiction and looking for bits of different puzzles that fit together. An exercise in linear and perpendicular coherence devoid of any objective logic. 

In the middle of the album an artist is envisioning his place in the Now, questioning how or when he got there, as he links memories to imaginary places, and real places to imaginary histories. Kreis Plön stands as such a masterpiece that bluntly envisions the future of electronic music.

Klinker

So Lucky

Bee Sting

Retoons

Lemoncrush

Sticky Bun

Out now on limited cassette and digital. All music by @x-y-r

Cassette case includes zine designed by artist & two copies of the cassette. Available on Bandcamp: https://xyrmusic.bandcamp.com/album/x-y-r-qtt7and in select shops soon.

X.Y.R. - QTT7 - Full tape Mix

A Place To Bury Strangers - “Frustrated Operator (Slowdive Remix)” from the upcoming album ‘Re-Pinned’ on Dead Oceans, out October 5, 2018.

Stream / Pre-Order — https://aptbs.ffm.to/re-pinned

A Place To Bury Strangers - Frustrated Operator (Slowdive Remix)

From 'Obey,' out Sep. 28, 2018. 
Preorder: http://hyperurl.co/ExplodedViewObey

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Exploded View - Raven Raven

Mystery Tonight

Got One

The Big Sleep

Artist: Bellini
Title: Being Married
Album: Before The Day Has Gone
Release Date: July 27, 2018

Pre-Order: www.temporaryresidence.com/products/trr302

A decade is literally a lifetime for most bands. For Italian-American post-punk stalwarts, Bellini, it is simply the time it took to make their new album. Separated by an ocean, the members of Bellini lived their lives, mourned several close friends who lost theirs, and occasionally converged in Italy or Chicago to write and record what would become Before The Day Has Gone. Recorded as always by longtime collaborator and companion, Steve Albini, Before The Day Has Gone’s roots are in tracks that were originally laid to tape at Albini’s Electrical Audio Studios way back in 2012, where they sat until fall of 2017, awaiting completion. Albini mixed and sequenced the album independently, as Bellini has preferred with all of their albums since 2005’s Small Stones. Bellini’s gift for marrying melody and dissonance is as sharp as ever on Before The Day Has Gone – the band’s veteran rhythm section of Matthew Taylor and Alexis Fleisig anchoring Tilotta’s sinewy anti-riffs and Cacciola’s primal punk poetry. Bellini deliver passion and pain with the kind of pride and prowess one would expect from a band of their pedigree, and Before The Day Has Gone is their most dramatic and dizzying display of their two-decade career.

Bellini - Being Married

Short-Chain:
Glen Biesiek
Laurence Diack
Catherine Ellis
Liam Pram

Recorded by Liam Pram, Tom Dennison & Joshua Lynn
Mixed and Mastered by Joshua Lynn

Short-Chain

Mouse Man

Vast, expansive and introspective works utilising place-specific found sound on this second Cremation Lily LP for Alter. Contemplating mortality, illness and the perennial bleakness of British winter in a seaside town we find Zen Zsigo experimenting with piano, violin, synthesiser and walkman tape players. Layering field recordings of the Hastings shoreline atop druggy, stretched out 303 basslines and snippets of spoken word there seems to be an overarching thematic of memory and reflection at play. From vignettes of crumbling glass and bittersweet drones through to sprawling, semi-rhythmical pieces (‘As a sea creature...’) it seems as if Zsigo is trawling the coast for fragments of its former glory. The end result of his study manages to echo the work of Yoran, Leyland Kirby and even Jacob Kirkegaard yet the rare moments where he lays bare his own vocal narrative seemingly transforms In England Now, Underwater into sonic diary territory. Mixing salt-water soaked cassette loops with haunting, minimalist piano motifs and warped recordings of crashing waves and bird noise an intense atmosphere of Ballard’s drowned world is evoked through sound.

Order: https://cremationlily-alter.bandcamp.com/album/in-england-now-underwater

Cremation Lily - Radiance And Instability (ALT42)

Cremation Lily - Washed Through Glass (ALT42)

blue moon
you saw me standing alone
without a dream in my heart
without a love of my own

blue moon
you knew just what i was there for
you heard me saying a pray for
someone i really could care for

(backing vocals)
blue moon blue moon
you saw me standing
you heard me dreaming
of you blue moon blue moon

blue moon blue moon
you knew just what i
i made a prayer for
it’s you blue moon blue moon

written by Richard Rodgers
artwork image by Ellie Tsatsou http://www.ellietsatsou.com/

blue moon

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