Frozen Rabbit - 26,000 After hearing this album praised to no end by fans of Download, platEAU and Phil Western's solo work, I finally had to check this out.
It lives up to the hype.
Sometimes Coil-esque, sometimes reminiscent of Mark Spybey's excellent Dead Voices on Air, at times close to some of the Kranky label noise manipulations, and very near to the synthetic backbone of Download's excellent "III", this album is all I could ask for (and more) from a beatless Western / Hill collaboration.
Dead Voices on Air - From Labrador to MadagascarMark Spybey is back after a few years of silence from his central project, Dead Voices on Air. FLtM sees Spybey pulling back a bit from the more "band" oriented DVOA releases of the late '90s, early '00s. Here he recalls the musical imagery and tonal palette of early releases like Shap and New Words Machine, while maintaining an updated sound - this album doesn't sound like it was recorded over a weekend on a 4-track (not to belittle the genius of the first three albums, but Spybey definitely seems to have embraced some new studio techniques - this material sounds much more crisp than the early material).
Loscil - StasesI have a love hate relationship with Loscil. I quite enjoy the drones present on many of his releases, but in most cases the rhythm section dulls the effect of the beautiful drones - Sumbers suffers from Monolake-wannabe tech-dub drum kit overuse. Here, Scott Morgan devotes the sound to (extremely) minimalistic sine-wave drones that float pleasantly in the surrounding air, and are not tied down to any repetitive "dance" rhythms - leave that to the aforementioned Monolake and platEAU.
I don't often listen to music during the night as I sleep, but during short naps I often have the stereo cranked to something either droney or minimalistic.
What do you sleep to?
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