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Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #9

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 8, 2023
2 Comments on Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #9

Original images sourced from artists' Bandcamp pages.

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Katie Gerardine O’Neill Interview: “I’ve finally tied together a lot of my processes with this album”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 6, 2023
1 Comment on Katie Gerardine O’Neill Interview: “I’ve finally tied together a lot of my processes with this album”

Katie Geraldine O'Neill (photo from artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Beth Gibbons, Cruel Nature Records, Deadlians, DRR, Dublin Modular, Ecliptic of Culture, Jarboe, Katie Gerardine O'Neill, Little Gem, Open Ear, School Tour, Spilt Milk

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Weirdo Rippers #4

Marlene Ribeiro (photo: Renato Cruz Santos)

Tags Adela Mede, Alaskan Tapes, Austin Cash, Brady Kendall, Cruel Nature Records, Ekin Fil, John Haughey, Landing, Marlene Riberiro, Nettwerk Music Group Inc., Night School Records, re:st, Rocket Recordings, Waxing Crescent Records, Winterwood

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Weirdo Rippers #3

Kali Malone with Stephen O'Malley and Lucy Railton (photo credit: Chris Fullard)

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Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2022

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 16, 2022
13 Comments on Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2022
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Collage by Sam Gill (@samgill82)

Tags ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, 4ad, Aidan Baker, All Structures Align, Andreas Werliin, Archers of Loaf, Bella Union, BMG, Breathless, Broken Spine Records, Brutus, BUÑUEL, Chat Pile, Clouds Hill, Constellation Records, Cooking Vinyl, Cruel Nature Records, Desert Records, Destroyer, Dine Alone Records, Dischord Records, Drag City, Droneroom, Duquette Johnston, Duster, Earl Sweatshirt, Editions Mego, Ellis Swan, Empty House, Enablers, Esmerine, Exploding In Sound, Fat Possum Records, Golden Chariot Records, Gvantsa Narim, Haress, Hassle Records, Houseplants, Irregular Patterns, Jenny Hval, Johan Berthling, Joyful Noise Recordings, Kal Marks, Kenneth James Gibson, Kranky, La Tempesta International, Late Music, Lebenswelt, Lensmen, Loop, Luke Mawdsley, Matt Christensen, Meadows Heavy Recorders, Merge, Merge Records, Miasmah Recordings, Midira Records, Monastral, Mondkopf, Nadja, Nightingales, Nik Colk Void, Numero Group, OFF!, Oneida, Oren Ambarchi, OuZel Recordings / Under My Bed Recordings, Pan-American, Petra Haden, Preoccupations, Profound Lore Records, Quindi Records, Raum, Reactor, Rocio Zavala, Salisman & His Hermetic Order, Sarah Davachi, Sargent House, Sea Power, Single Lock Records, Soft Abuse, Soulside, Southern Lord Recordings, SPINE, Steven R. Smith, Suede, Swami John Reis, Swami Records, Tan Cressida, Tenor Vossa Records Ltd, The Flenser, The Lord, The Mars Volta, The Reds Pinks and Purples, Tiny Global Productions, Tough Love, Win Big Records, Winterwood, Wrong Speed Records, Yellowelectric, Yoshiwara

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Mike Vest Interview: “It’s great to see albums form over time”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 5, 2022
3 Comments on Mike Vest Interview: “It’s great to see albums form over time”

Mike Vest

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Salisman & His Celestial Bodies Interview: “We are always working on new material”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 25, 2022
2 Comments on Salisman & His Celestial Bodies Interview: “We are always working on new material”

Salisman & His Celestial Bodies

Tags Chris Tate, Creation Records, Cruel Nature Records, d_rradio, Jason Peirce, Jon Raedeke, Paul Foreman, Salisman & His Celestial Bodies, Salisman & His Hermetic Order, slowdive, Soft Speaker, spiritualized, Swervedriver, Travis Salisbury

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Weirdo Rippers #2

Tags Blanket Swimming, Christina Vantzou, Cruel Nature Records, Elrond, Kranky, Music for a Nightmare, Rocket Recordings, Shit and Shine, Stuart Cook, Waxing Crescent Records

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Le Gateaux Bateaux / The Last Sound: LGB///TLS

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 31, 2022
No Comments on Le Gateaux Bateaux / The Last Sound: LGB///TLS

Tags Animal Collective, Barry Murphy, Cruel Nature Records, Le Gateaux Bateaux, Magnetize, Nwyvre, Rollers/Sparkers, Sound Breaking Sky, Stephen, Sun City Girls, The Last Sound, Whirling Hall of Knives

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Empty House Interview: “It came about as a quick idea”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 17, 2022
4 Comments on Empty House Interview: “It came about as a quick idea”

Empty House

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Cowman: Slaughter

Cowman - Slaughter

Tags Band of Susans, Benjamin Heal, Big Black, birdbath, Coaxial, Cruel Nature Records, Godflesh, Hitobashira-ni, Mori Mori

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TANKENGINE: TANKENGINE TANKENGINE TANKENGINE EP

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 28, 2022
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TANKENGINE (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

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Nadja: Labyrinthine

Nadja (photo credit: Janina Gallert)

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Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #7

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 2, 2022
11 Comments on Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #7

Albums Quarterly (original images sourced from respective artists' Bandcamp pages).

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Daniel McClennan: Unfurling Redemption

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 31, 2022
2 Comments on Daniel McClennan: Unfurling Redemption

Daniel McLennan - Unfurling Redemption

Tags Cruel Nature Records, Daniel McClennan, Liz Harris, Max Richter, Philip K. Dick, The Caretaker, Tim Hecker, Why Patterns

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TENCHPRESS: Tombmagic

TENCHPRESS - Tombmagic

Tags Clinic, Cruel Nature Records, Sparks, Tenchpress, Wrong Speed Records

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Label Watch: Cruel Nature Records

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 27, 2022
12 Comments on Label Watch: Cruel Nature Records

Cruel Nature Records

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Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #6

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 1, 2022
14 Comments on Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #6

Photo credit: original images taken from respective artists' Bandcamp pages.

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Upward / Charlie Butler: Upward / Charlie Butler

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date May 20, 2022
2 Comments on Upward / Charlie Butler: Upward / Charlie Butler

Upward / Charlie Butler

Tags Arvo Pärt, Aufgehoben, Birchville Cat Motel, Charlie Butler, Cruel Nature Records, Greg Anderson, Kevin Shields, O’Malley, Upward

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Olanza: Olanza

Olanza

Tags Cruel Nature Records, Einstellung, Hominid Sounds, Human Worth, Olanza, Pelican, Polvo, Rocket Recordings

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Whirling Hall Of Knives Interview: “Corrosion and general murk prevails”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date May 9, 2022
6 Comments on Whirling Hall Of Knives Interview: “Corrosion and general murk prevails”

Whirling Hall of Knives

Tags Alan O'Boyle, Barry Murphy, Bryan O'Connell, Cruel Nature Records, Decal, EAR, Fennesz, Koner, Legion Of Two, Magnetize, Main, Nwyvre, Of One, Scorn, Sound Breaking, Stephen Gethings, The Last Sound, Whirling Hall of Knives

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Friend Of God From The Oberland: II

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date May 3, 2022
1 Comment on Friend Of God From The Oberland: II

Tags Cruel Nature Records, Friend Of God From The Oberland, Juho Toivonen, Pasi Slami, Vahvistusharha

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End Now: Half Live

End Now - Half Live

Tags Cruel Nature Records, Enablers, End Now, Faliure, Helmet, Mission of Burma, Pete Simonelli, Scratch Acid, Stu Ellen, Unwound

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Pound Land Interview: “We both like our music to be unsettling”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 25, 2022
3 Comments on Pound Land Interview: “We both like our music to be unsettling”

Pound Land (photo provided by the artist)

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VHS¥DEATH: Corrupted Geisha EP

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 18, 2022
2 Comments on VHS¥DEATH: Corrupted Geisha EP

VHS¥DEATH - Corrupted Geisha EP

Tags Cruel Nature Records, Gnod, Natalie Wardle, Returning Videotapes, VHS¥DEATH

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Omnibael: Rain Soaks the Earth Where They Lie

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date February 10, 2022
1 Comment on Omnibael: Rain Soaks the Earth Where They Lie

Tags Cavesnake, Cruel Nature Records, Godflesh, Jason Kester, Lip Critic, Omnibael, Phil Malpas, The Body, Throbbing Gristle

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Salisman & His Hermetic Order: Clairvoyance

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date February 3, 2022
5 Comments on Salisman & His Hermetic Order: Clairvoyance

Salisman & His Celestial Bodies

Tags Activity, Autolux, BBC 6 Music, Chris Tate, Cruel Nature Records, d_rradio, One Key Magic, Paul Foreman, Radiohead, Salisman & His Hermetic Order, Score, Thom Yorke, Travis Salisbury

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Charlie Butler: Deep Space

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date February 2, 2022
3 Comments on Charlie Butler: Deep Space

Tags Chaos Emeralds, Charlie Butler, Cody Noon, Cruel Nature Records, Earth, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Head Drop, Jesu, Justin Broadrick, mogwai, Mothertrucker, Star Trek

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2021 with Cruel Nature Records’ Steve Strode

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 20, 2021
10 Comments on 2021 with Cruel Nature Records’ Steve Strode

Cruel Nature Records' Steve Strode

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Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2021

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 17, 2021
31 Comments on Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2021
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Original image via Unsplash (Florencia Viadana)

Tags 20-20-20, AD 93, Aging, Aging ~ Land Trance, Allen Moore, Ben Chasny, big brave, big country, BIG | BRAVE, Bill Orcutt, Black Tempel Pyrämid, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Bronzerat, Charlie Butler, Chris Abrahams, Chris Corsano, Circle, Claire Cronin, Comedy Minus One, Constellation Records, Cruel Nature Records, Damon & Naomi, Damon Krukowski, Daniela Weinmann, David Colohan, David Wurth, Deafheaven, Divide And Dissolve, Domino Recordings, Donovan Quinn, Drag City, Dub Cthonic, Eleventh Dream Day, Emil Amos, Emma Ruth Rundle, Ex-Easter Island Head, FACS, Fading Tapes, Fake Fruit, Fat Cat, Fire Records, Flemish Eye, Fly Pan Am, Full Time Hobby, Gaffa Bandana, Glenn Donaldson, Gnod, Goliath Enterprises Limited, Grouper, Holy Sons, Hominid Sounds, Human Worth, International Anthem, Invada Records, Iron Lung Records, Jeff Parker, Jim White, Joyful Noise, Joyful Noise Recordings, Katuku Collective, Kowloon Walled City, Kranky, Kulk, Land Trance, Light Conductor, Lingua Ignota, loscil, Low, Matt Christensen, Matt Sweeney, Mess Esque, Miasmah Recordings, Midwife, Moin, Monastra, Naomi Yang, Neurot Recordings, New Bums, nick cave, Ninja Tune, Odd Beholder, Ohm Resistance, Orindal Records, P.M. Tummala, Palilalia, Patrick R. Pärk, richard dawson, Rock In Your Head, Rocket Recordings, Rough Trade, Sargent House, Simm, Sinnbus, Six Organs of Admittance, slant, sleaford mods, Southern Lord, Springtime, Stuart Cook, Sub Pop, The Besnard Lakes, The Bug, The Flenser, The Reds Pinks and Purples, The Still, Three Lobed Recordings, Tough Love, Tropical Fuck Storm, Trouble In Mind, Vapour Theories, warren ellis, Waxing Cresent Records, Will Oldham, XIMES

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Sun 13’s Top Local Releases of 2021

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 15, 2021
5 Comments on Sun 13’s Top Local Releases of 2021

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Cavesnake: Cavesnake – “submerged in mystery and illusion”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 8, 2021
4 Comments on Cavesnake: Cavesnake – “submerged in mystery and illusion”

Tags Cavesnake, Cruel Nature Records, Nadja, Oxgoat, Sikander Louse, The Escalation

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Cold Roads: In Conversation with Mitternacht’s Jonny Davis Le Brun

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 3, 2021
7 Comments on Cold Roads: In Conversation with Mitternacht’s Jonny Davis Le Brun

Mitternacht

Tags Basic Channel, Cruel Nature Records, Daniel Avery, Emeka Ogboh, GAS, Jonny Davis Le Brun, Mitternacht, Radiohead, Rongorongo, Sigur Rós, Skee Mask, Steve Strode, The Field, Wolfgang Voigt

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Ivan The Tolerable: Autodidact II – “an array of styles and influences in the world of experimentation”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 26, 2021
5 Comments on Ivan The Tolerable: Autodidact II – “an array of styles and influences in the world of experimentation”

Ivan The Tolerable

Tags Alice Coltrane, Cruel Nature Records, faust, gRAILS, Ivan The Tolerable, Oli Heffernan, Six Organs of Admittance, spiritualized, Sunn O))), Tarentel

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Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #3

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 27, 2021
22 Comments on Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #3

Photo credit (original images via artists' respective Bandcamp pages)

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Black Tempel Pyrämid: Infinite Tombs – “a five-dimensional wall of sound”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 23, 2021
2 Comments on Black Tempel Pyrämid: Infinite Tombs – “a five-dimensional wall of sound”

Black Tempel Pyrämid

Tags Black Tempel Pyrämid, Cruel Nature Records, gRAILS, Labradford, Lilacs & Champagne, Matt Christensen, Michael Rother, Patrick R. Pärk, Spaceman 3

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David Colohan Interview: “some landscapes suggest their own sound”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 12, 2021
12 Comments on David Colohan Interview: “some landscapes suggest their own sound”

David Colohan (photo credit by Enda Trautt)

Tags A-Ha, Alice Coltrane, Cruel Nature Records, David Colohan, dirty three, Fennesz, Holt, Jewelled Antler Collective, Loren Connors, Neil Young, Shirley Collins, Tangerine Dream, Tim Hecker, Townes Van Zandt, United Bible Studies, Will Oldham

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Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #2

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 30, 2021
24 Comments on Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #2

(Original images sourced from artists' Bandcamp pages)

Tags 12XU, 3094869 Records DK, Allen Moore, Amenra, American Dream Records, Bar None Records, Carlos Nino, Chris Brokaw, Claire Rousay, CLAMM, Cory Hanson, Cruel Nature Records, David Colohand, Drag City, Editrix, Exploding In Sound, Fake Fruit, Feel It Records, Floatie, Giancarlo Erra, Helvetia, Hieroglyphic Being, Ilian Tape, International Anthem, Jamal R Moss, Joyful Noise, Keeled Scales, Kscope Records, Lemonade Records, Mathematics Communications, Meat Machine, Merge Records, Mind Maintenance, Monastral, New Madrid, Pardoner, Relapse Recordings, Renee Reed, Rock In Your Head, Score, Skee Mask, Smirk, Spread Joy, Sunburned Hand of the Man, The Mountain Goats, The Mountain Movers, Three Lobed Recordings, Trouble In Mind, Unstoppable Sweeties Show

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Stella Research Committee: A Proposed Method for Determining Sanding Fitness – “a menacing blast”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date May 14, 2021
5 Comments on Stella Research Committee: A Proposed Method for Determining Sanding Fitness – “a menacing blast”

Stella Research Committee

Tags Cruel Nature Records, Joe Cardamone, Kevin Hall, Killdozer, Lauri Reponen, Man or Astro-man?, Scratch Acid, Sonic Youth, Stella Research Committee, The Icarus Line, Tony Squeri