Allow me to list few things I’m enjoying at the moment while I’m bored in a Morrisons car park:
Dag Rosenqvist – Still A Prison of this Virtual Space
Apparently originally part of an audio-visual art installation with visual artist Angelica Olsson from 2024, this 21 minute composition just popped up on Bandcamp and sounds incredible. I’ve fallen off with Dag Rosenqvist’s work over the past few years – on this evidence I clearly need to have a look at what I’ve been missing.
Blackwater Holylight- Not Here Not Gone
There’s a lot of stuff sort of straddling shoegaze and doom with a smidge of dream pop thrown in. The recipe is rarely quite to my tastes but this one is just right. Dreamy riffery that has me entirely spellbound.
Exit Chamber – Strategy of Tension
Paranoid drones laced with speeches detailing project Gladio and the secret history of post-war Europe? Yeah I’ll have a bit of that, thank you very much. If you haven’t heard the conspiracy* podcast Ghost Stories of the End of the World you really should. It’ll give you some good context as to why this sounds like an apocalypse in slow motion.
*it’s not paranoia when they’re really out to get you etc
Kavalcade – Green Tomorrows
The artist formerly known as Pope John Paul Van Damme (lord I’ll miss that name) continues his adventures in drum and bass and various electronic genres I’m too much of a guitarhead to correctly identify. It’s mesmerising stuff whatever section of a record store you’d choose to slot it in.
Slow Blink – Letters Home
A pair of brilliantly evocative loop driven ambient pieces from last year that I can’t shake. Evocative of what you ask? Well, I’m not quite sure but it evokes the hell out of it. Melancholy, nostalgia, saudade, sonder – all that good sad shit. Get it on some headphones, stare into a lake or other body of water and feel something other than pure horror for a bit.
Dry Cleaning – Secret Love
The Radio 6 sprechgesang stuff might be a bit old hat these days but Dry Cleaning to continue to prove that while cut up art might seem easy on paper making it feel like a coherent piece of work is another matter entirely. Florence Shaw’s work is strong enough that the band can jam their way round all manner of awkard post punk noodlery.
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