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That Kind Of Faint Hope / Excerpts, Outtakes & Radio Edits

Piano II

Black Brain / Aziza

Aziza

Nordic Flora Series, Pt. 6: Outlaw Music

Is there a place in heaven for boys like me?

visuals by @Moskalus: https://youtu.be/KTqGuP2FyJg

Here are 2 new jams that I hope will get you through the end of this year & safely into the next. They were inspired by a tumultuous 2016 and are thus heart-felt to the core ♡♡♡

baltra.bandcamp.com/album/rearview-ep

Rearview

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Untitled (B)

The World

LA Hills Burn At The Peak Of Winter

A Body Turns To Eden

A Collection Of Ceramic Vases (Yves Saint Laurent Buried In The Garden Of His Marrakesh Home)

Great Many Arrows

Arrow 5

Soho Rezanejad & Frederik Valentin - One Of My Shades
From Various Artists "I Could Go Anywhere But Again I Go With You" 
Posh Isolation 207, January 19, 2018 
Digital only release

Soho Rezanejad & Frederik Valentin - One Of My Shades

Memoria

Puce Mary — The Drought
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No. PAN 87
Release Date: 5 October 2018 
Pre-order album: bit.ly/2KGmn9f / bit.ly/2KGL7Ot

Building from a reputation of arresting live performances and critically acclaimed releases Puce Mary breaks new ground with The Drought, evolving from the tropes of industrial and power electronics to forge a complex story of adapting to new realities. Remnants of noise still exist, sustaining the penetrative viscerality offered on previous records, however The Drought demonstrates an intention to expand on the vocabulary of confrontational music and into a grander narrative defined by technical and emotional growth.

Bringing together introspective examination with literary frameworks by writers such as Charles Baudelaire and Jean Genet, Puce Mary’s compositions manifest an ongoing power struggle within the self towards preservation. The traumatised body serves as a dry landscape of which obscured memories and escape mechanisms fold reality into fiction, making sense of desire, loss and control. The Drought presents both danger and opportunity; through rebuilding a creative practice centred on first person narrative and a deliberate collage of field recordings and sound sources Puce Mary injects an acute urgency across the album seeking resilience.

“To Possess Is To Be In Control” makes use of lyrical repetition as an ambiguity of two selves, or a divided self, attempting to consume one another, while “Red Desert,” named after Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1964 film, portrays the individual subsumed by surrounding environmental forces. The seven-minute epic “The Size of Our Desires” acts as the emotional tipping point of the record; amongst the ominous drone and dense feedback flutters almost-beatific melodies, while the lyrics reveal a romantic call to be swept up in the midst of an increasingly uninhabitable world.

Rather than escape, The Drought dramatises a metamorphosis in which vulnerability is confronted through regeneration. Noise and aggression no longer act as an affront to react against but part of a ‘corporeal architecture’ where space, harmony and lyricism surface from the harsh tropes of industrial music. The Drought chronologises a transformation through a psychological famine, new ways of coping akin to plant survival in a desert – to live without drying out.

The release is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring art by Torbjørn Rødland

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The Drought

Puce Mary -  A Feast Before The Drought (PAN 87)

SOLAS

Untitled

Elephant

In Waves (feat. CTM)

Track from NE74 Various Artists — Scandinavian Swords IIII: Atlas of Visions Pt. I
Out on 3xLP and digital June 12th.

The fourth instalment of the Scandinavian Swords series breaks with its predecessors’ forms. Deviating from the austere brevity that marks Northern Electronics out, Scandinavian Swords IIII: Atlas of Visions completes a survey of the label’s confidants and components in the same breath as it introduces a swarm of new artists and genre-collisions.

With the swell of the last 12 months behind them, Anthony Linell and Jonas Rönnberg have forged the compilation with a paradoxical formula: Atlas of Visions stakes itself as a milestone release that retains the sure-footed programming of its proprietors yet cuts a new silhouette for what the platform of a Northern Electronics release consists of.

Presented across two volumes, Atlas of Visions courses through the hyper-pigmented and infectious fallout zone between club-focused works and the abstract territories of experimental modes. The release compiles egression and intensification into a pandemoniac whole, a refracting design for fractured times.

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome.
Graphic design by Jonas Bard.

Scandinavian Swords IIII: Atlas of Visions

The Empire Line - Træt av lagen, træt av Systembolaget

Escape Reality

Stronger Together (Escape Mix)

Shadow Box

Melts All Your Memories

Winter Ashes

Path of Devotion

Stumhetens toner

Tårlös sorg

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The Sound of New Isolationism

Victor Marbus