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I think a track from this album was mentioned earlier in the thread but this whole album from Visible Cloaks / Yoshio Ojima / Satsuki Shibano is amazing:

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It’s also possible that I just associate Portishead with mildly irritating music played in my general environment that I never paid much attention to at the time either.

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Reissue of Dome 1 (with Dome 2 coming soon).

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I quite liked the Billie Ellish album. Sounded like Lorde for the #mulch set. Actually imo there are some very interesting production tricks geared towards headphones that I haven’t heard the equal of yet. Totally see how she could be annoying :joy:

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Doing a first run through of this new Local Natives record today… really great stuff. Some really great sounding drum & bass sounds.

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Weirdly, I just this minute got an email saying that it has been released. Edit: never having specifically heard of them before, other than in passing as the subject line of emails passing through my inbox.

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Woah now that’s wild! Highly recommend checking them out. Really great band. Their first record Gorilla Manor was a very impressive debut.

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I might just do that; currently listening to the new UnicaZürn album Sensudestricto, which is coming out next week via Touch records. Lots of lovely Mellotron arrangements, strings, synths and electro-acoustics (sadly I can’t find any previews available online to link to): https://touch33.net/catalogue/to113-unicazurn-sensudestricto.html

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the music of Dirty Three is timeless. I was fortunate to see them a few times in the early-mid 90s and they are still some of the most memorable performances I’ve ever seen. at one of them (opening for Pavement) they had just lost a close friend the night before and dedicated the set to her, Warren laid bare his emotions and there might not have been a dry eye (and jaw off the floor) in the entire club.

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I haven’t shared here for awhile, thought this was worth spreading :slight_smile:

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New Amon Tobin, loving it:

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henry from amps for christ made me the absolute best unofficial ‘best-of’ collection of Steeleye Span tracks, years and years ago. the LPs can seem bloated without such curation but the good stuff is reaaal good, i keep coming back to it

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very true. similar to Fairport Convention (though I don’t think there’s as much “bloat” in the earlier/mid albums)

in a similar vein I always loved this song:

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That song / video is excellent, thanks for posting it!

I followed Mick Turner’s output more closely than that of Dirty Three’s, as I’d become sort of enamoured with his style / approach to playing (along with Jim White’s feel) … this is one of my favorites of theirs:

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i’m loving the new amon tobin too, it’s gorgeous sounding with mannequins, mutable, cwejman, and buchla instruments well represented. i’m pretty sure amon tobin could make anything sound like amon tobin though.

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No matter which genres he crosses the borders of, he always sounds like Amon Tobin. I’ve been really into Dark Jovian for the past few months, and I love ISAM, but my favorite individual track he’s done is this:

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I really dig this new release from Bjørn Svin. Metallic, repetitive and very saturated, but still lots of air and times to breath in between.

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Tell us about your relationship with ambient music…

It’s a difficult one, I don’t particularly listen to it in my spare time with exception to the music of my friends and even then I’d hesitate to call it “ambient.” I think especially with renewed interest into a genre it is easy as a listener to become fatigued, overwhelmed, even underwhelmed with new music. I’m not so sure it suits me or it just happens to be a vessel in which there are few rules. Then again maybe that’s a bad thing for the genre, perhaps it’d be easier to shift, to evolve the genre if there were more codified notions of what is ambient and what isn’t. More and more I see people talk about ambient music as some sort of “cure-all,” yet all I want is to push back and make it darker, more unpleasant, less forgiving, less holistic.

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