new album is doubleplusgood. saw these folks open for deafheaven and have been hooked since.

this is just amazing, its like ive taken the best drug ever

noise

space / badman

Echelon from Portal Theory is a dense record of menacing tones and spooky, sugary voices challenging even the most hardened miserable git not to be stirred. Echelon is the sound of tragic, desperate beauty. It's rhythms rattle and pound with menacing precision. It's chords murmur gently in an oppressive gloom. It's aching, sublime voices that are as sweet as they are claustrophobic. This is music for biting nails, burning candles, and touching skin. These are songs for your dark side.

Portal Theory are Lisa Trevorrow and Thomas Edward Hale with guest vocalist Victoria Lloyd of Claire Voyant singing on the track Siren.

02 Another State Of Dreaming

out on Spacecase Records 2/1. preorder here:
https://www.spacecaserecords.com/spacecase-releases/true-green-my-lost-decade-cassette

My Lost Decade (mp3)

05 - Hopeless Diamond

Virtue Misspent

The Seasons Reverse

The Seasons Reverse (live)

No Joy - Everything New

Second take with some sloppy scratches. I was on the fence about uploading this one but I think there's some good parts that are worth sharing. As always, this is a live one take recording. Thanks for listening ✌️

Here's a video of the recording 
https://youtu.be/G05PaYLEUSM

Sunday Sesh Part II

KODACHROME  - 11:1:25, 5.43 PM

In the run-up to the release of our retrospective 'Central Belters' on 23rd October, we are choosing a track of ours to feature, one per day.

This, and 33 tracks spanning our 20 year career will be available to buy on 6LP / 3 CD / Digital download from mogwai.co.uk and all good record stores.

'Hunted By A Freak' originally appeared on 'Happy Songs For Happy People' and is also available to buy in stores now for £6 or £4.99 at iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/happy-songs-for-happy-people/id273173399

Mogwai // Hunted By A Freak

Satin Wall -  Dans Les Profondeurs  ( Coldwave  1981 Belgique )

Starrsha

Sweet Girl

In Love

Summertime

Penultimate Press is pleased to present A Sunset for Walter, the first duo release from long-time collaborators Jérôme Noetinger and Anthony Pateras. Having worked together in a number of different collaborative contexts over the years, the pair used Pateras’ 2018 residency at Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart as an opportunity to develop a major durational work for Steinway piano and multiple Revox tape machines. Presenting four excerpts from a three-hour concert, the LP’s opening moments immediately establish its distinctive sound-world: an austere sequence of octaves slowly sounded by the piano gradually develops into passages of fragmentary lyricism as Noetinger’s tape manipulations dilate the sonic space with rumbling sub-bass, distant echoes, and hints of uncanny backmasking.
 
A Sunset for Walter was conceived as a loose tribute to the piano works of Walter Marchetti, particularly the slowed-down subaquatic expanse of Nel Mari Del Sud. As Marchetti described his own work, A Sunset for Walter is ‘music without beginning, or end, or development’, where the lack of obvious structural divisions creates something like an endless present. But where the monochrome surface of Marchetti’s work – in its willingness to descend, in his own words  to the ‘pits of aesthetic poverty’ – often approaches total stasis, A Sunset for Walter is calmly immovable in its overall texture but perpetually changing in detail, as the performers respond intuitively to each other, their instruments, and the environment. Noetinger’s tape manipulations range from nearly imperceptible shadowing of the live piano to anarchic bursts of rewinding tape, floating wisps of feedback, and dreamlike concrète interjections of children’s voices and splashing water. Pateras’ piano performance moves from single pitches left hanging over a backdrop of silence to almost Messiaen-esque sequences of complex chords and arpeggios, all sounded within a temporal framework that seems to follow internal rhythms of breath and bodily movements.
 
Caught in this hall of mirrors, the listener is often unable to distinguish the live piano from its tape-manipulated reflection. Like the sunset of the title, here outlines blur into a crepuscular haze, as fleeting effects of light and shade catch our attention just as they disappear.

No Joy - Everything New

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