Tag: Kranky

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Weirdo Rippers #6

Ale Hop & Laura Robles (photo: Kasia Zacharko)

Singles

Track Premiere: Less Bells’ ‘Drowned Ground’

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 6, 2023
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Less Bells

Tags Bell Gardens, Dain Luscombe, Julie Carpenter, Kenneth James Gibson, Kranky, Less Bells, Marjorie Fair, Meadows Heavy Recorders

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Loscil // Lawrence English: Colours of Air

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date February 2, 2023
3 Comments on Loscil // Lawrence English: Colours of Air

Loscil // Lawrence English (photo credit: CWS Marshall)

Tags Kranky, Lawrence English, loscil, Room40, Scott Morgan, The Old Museum

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2022

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 16, 2022
19 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

Singles

Track Premiere: Less Bells’ ‘A Failure of Horses’

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 30, 2022
1 Comment on Track Premiere: Less Bells’ ‘A Failure of Horses’

Less Bells

Tags Kenneth James Gibson, Kranky, Less Bells, Meadows Heavy Recorders

Albums Features

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

Features Lost Albums

Southpacific: Constance

Southpacific - Constance

Tags Bethany Curve, Graeme Fleming, Highspire, Joachim Toelke, Kranky, my bloody valentine, Phil Stewart-Bowes, Seefeel, SoPac, Southpacific, The Bowery Electric, Turnbuckle Records

Albums Features

Landing’s Seasons 20th anniversary

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date July 22, 2022
1 Comment on Landing’s Seasons 20th anniversary

Landing (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #6

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

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

Tags Astrel K, ATO Records, Broken Spine, Bronzerat Records, Chris Corsano, Colpitts, Constellation, Cruel Nature Records, Cult Of Luna, Drug Church, Duphonic Super 45s, DVANOV, Earthen Sea, Ghost Power, half man half biscuit, Helms Alee, Holy Island, Huercos S. Incienso, HVOB, Improved Sequence, Ivan The Tolerable, Jon Spencer, Jon Spencer & the hitmakers, Kee Avil, Keeley Forsyth, Kranky, Library of the Occult, Metal Blade Records, Michael Flower, P.E., Past Inside the Present, Patricia Wolf, PIAS, Pink Mountaintops, PLOSIVS, Pure Noise Records, R M Qualtral, Rocket Recordings, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Rubber Oh, Sargent House, Sub Pop, Swami Records, The Leaf Label, Thrill Jockey, VHF Reocrds, Wharf Cat Records

Features Interviews

Pan-American Interview: “Memory is the place where inward-facing emotion lives”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date February 18, 2022
12 Comments on Pan-American Interview: “Memory is the place where inward-facing emotion lives”

Pan-American (photo credit: Luka Nelson)

Tags Grouper, Kranky, Labradford, Mark Nelson, Pan-American

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Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2021

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 17, 2021
32 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

Album Reviews

Light Conductor: Sequence Two – “radical colours that pulsate”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 29, 2021
3 Comments on Light Conductor: Sequence Two – “radical colours that pulsate”

Light Conductor (photo credit: via Constellation website)

Tags Constellation Records, Jace Lacek, Kranky, Light Conductor, Stephen Ramsay, The Besnard Lakes, Young Galaxy

Album Reviews

Grouper: Shade – “a fascinating collection of songs”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 21, 2021
8 Comments on Grouper: Shade – “a fascinating collection of songs”

Grouper (photo credit: Gordon Ashworth)

Tags Grouper, Kranky, Liz Harris

Features Interviews

Constant World: In Conversation with Matt Christensen – Part 2

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 23, 2021
10 Comments on Constant World: In Conversation with Matt Christensen – Part 2

Matt Christensen (photo credit: Tim Breen)

Tags Brian Eno, Depeche Mode, King Crimson, Kranky, Labradford, Matt Christensen, Neil Young, Sea And Cake, slowdive, Smashing Pumpkins, Spaceman 3, spiritualized, Talk Talk, Tortoise, Wax Trax!, Zelienople

Singles

MJ Guider: Matanzas – “darkwave-inspired soundscapes”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 17, 2021
2 Comments on MJ Guider: Matanzas – “darkwave-inspired soundscapes”

MJ Guider (photo credit: Craig Mulcahy)

Tags Kranky, Melissa Guion, MJ Guider, modelmain, Seefeel

Album Reviews

Loscil: Clara – “sprawling collages”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 7, 2021
6 Comments on Loscil: Clara – “sprawling collages”

loscil (photo credit: Ben Didier)

Tags Kranky, loscil, Primavera, Scott Morgan, Shellac, The Sight Below

Interviews Features

Zelienople Interview: “our biggest enemy is cynicism”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date January 8, 2021
21 Comments on Zelienople Interview: “our biggest enemy is cynicism”

Zelienople (photo credit: Christopher Michael Hefner)

Tags Kranky, Zelienople, Matt Christensen, Mike Weis, Miashma Recordings, Tortoise, Sun Ra

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Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2020

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 11, 2020
59 Comments on Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2020
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Original image source: Unsplash

Tags ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Activity, Albums of the year, Albums of the year 2020, Algiers, Andrea, ATO Records, Bad Amputee, Bambara, Baxter Dury, Bella Union, Bruxa Maria, Cohn Corporation, CS + Kreme, Daniel Avery, Dead Oceans, Destroyer, Dine Alone Records, Dis Fig, Dogleg, Domino Recordings, Drag City, Drive-By Truckers, Einstürzende Neubauten, Emil Amos, Emma Ruth Rundle, Epic Records, Epitaph Records, Ex-Easter Island Head, FACS, Family Jukebox, Fiona Apple, Flying Nun Records, Fotocrime, Heavenly Recordings, Holy Sons, Hominid Sounds, Hyperdub, Illian Tape, Illian Tapes, Jehnny Beth, Julianna Barwick, Keeley Forsyth, Kevin Martin, Kranky, Land Trance, Matador Records, Merge Records, Miashma Recordings, MJ Guider, Moses Boyd, Muzz, Ninja Tune, Northern Spy Records, Nuclear Blast, P.E., Pallbearer, Phantasy Sound, Phil Elverum, PIAS, Potomak, Profound Lore, protomartyr, Sacred Bones, Serengeti, Shabazz Palaces, Six Organs of Admittance, Sony Records, The Bats, The Bug, The Flaming Lips, The Innocence Mission, The Leaf Label, The Microphones, The Necks, The Trilogy Tapes, Thou, Thrill Jockey, Torres, Touché Amoré, Triple Crown Records, Trouble In Mind, Uniform, Walter Martin, Warp, Western Vinyl, Wharf Cat Records, Wreikmeister Harmonies, Wrekmeister Harmonies, yves tumor, Zelienople

Features Interviews

MJ Guider Interview: “I didn’t set out with a specific inspiration for making the record other than my standard compulsion”

MJ Guider (photo credit: Craig Mulcahy)

Tags Bowery Electric, cocteau twins, Julianna Barwick, Kranky, Less Bells, Melissa Guion, MJ Guider

Album Reviews

Less Bells: Mourning Jewelry – “an album for solitude to escape everyday burdens”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 21, 2020
6 Comments on Less Bells: Mourning Jewelry – “an album for solitude to escape everyday burdens”

Less Bells (photo credit: Baha H. Danesh)

The second installment from Julie Carpenter reflects on darkness of the past.

Tags A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Bowery Electric, Fennesz, Julianna Barwick, Julie Carpenter, Kranky, Less Bells, Mourning Jewelry