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1 month ago | 
sun-13.com | Simon Kirk |Lawrence English |Scott Morgan
Loscil (a.k.a. Scott Morgan) has announced details of his return to kranky, marking his first solo release on the label since 2021’s Clara. Lake Fire will be released on May 2 via the Chicago label. Earlier today, Morgan shared the album’s two lead tracks, Arrhythmia and Spark, which you can listen to below.
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2 months ago | 
thequietus.com | Lawrence English |Remembering Steve Roden |David Toop |Daryl Worthington
As the 21st century roared into view, so did Room40. What started off as a pre-millennium zine cobbled together in Brisbane grew into a series of carefully curated shows promoting the type of artists very rarely seen in North East Australia, and has now evolved, a quarter of a century later, into a home for some of the most vital, compelling, and dream-like experimental records.
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2 months ago | 
thequietus.com | Lawrence English |Remembering Steve Roden |David Toop |Daryl Worthington
Lawrence English wears many hats – both in the figurative and literal sense – but above all else, he is a true curator of sound. In addition to directing the Room40 label, one of the most prolific resources of ambient and experimental music, he has also helped put together music festivals and curated exhibitions bridging sound and visual art.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thequietus.com | Tariq Goddard |Lawrence English |Remembering Steve Roden |John Doran
One of the highlights of a working trip to Prague last spring was a visit to the Kafkaesque exhibition at the DOX gallery. I was delighted, but not surprised, when I stumbled across a set of ten gloomy, wry and haunting lithographs by David Lynch, who has died this week at the age of 78.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Tariq Goddard |Lawrence English |Remembering Steve Roden |Patrick Clarke
Late in 1988, in a studio in west London, a 19 year old by the name of Jonathan Saul Kane dropped the needle on a copy of ‘The Recluse’ by UK funk group Cymande, snatching a sample of vocalist Jimmy Lindsay crying out, “will the darkness come to set me free, and comfort me?” Cymande disbanded soon after the release of their third album Promised Heights in 1974, and would remain unsung heroes for nearly 50 years, but here they were repurposed nearly a decade and a half later on the inaugural...
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Tariq Goddard |Remembering Steve Roden |Lawrence English |Neil Kulkarni
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Tariq Goddard |Lawrence English |Remembering Steve Roden |Patrick Clarke
As was the custom in pre-internet days, I was introduced to Françoise Hardy by a trusted adviser, an older friend, through the medium of mixtapes that were filled with thrillingly strange, beautiful and obscure music. One such tape featured a handful of songs by Hardy, as well as some by Serge Gainsbourg. I was delighted by the provocations and groovy arrangements of the Gainsbourg tracks but with Hardy, I – like many before and after me – simply fell head over heels.
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May 13, 2024 | 
stage1.thequietus.com | JR Moores |Tariq Goddard |Lawrence English |Remembering Steve Roden
It is hard to say what Steve Albini would want to have written about him the day after he died. “Requiescat” was the term he would tend to use on social media whenever he paid tribute to those individuals he’d known or admired who had recently passed away. It’s a fancy word, from Latin. Not one that nowadays remains in many people’s vocabularies. Much like “integrity”, “dignity” or the correct use of “humble”.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
cyclicdefrost.com | Lawrence English
Michael Rother’s musical trajectory traces a critical line across the later part of the 20th century and into the present. Recognised for his instrumental role is solidify some of the aesthetic forms that came to be understood as Krautrock, it’s his harmonic language and approach to guitar that has so utterly embedded him in popular music histories. Always looking forward, he has maintained a practice cemented in new ideas and explorations that continue to open up his music into new territories.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
tobemagazine.com.au | Lawrence English
[Noise] is the false liquidation of art – instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture. — Theodor W. AdornoIn 1516, Sir Thomas More immortalised the term utopia in a narrative of the same name. He used the term as a means of critiquing European states of the day, against an aspirational vision of order, harmony and homogeneity.
