Tom Beedham
These are decidedly intimate songs approached from remarkably wide angles, woodsy tapestries penetrated with modernist psychedelic touches, artfully woven into grand, sprawling arrangements that will reward repeated private listening perhaps even more than Portishead has.
2y
A survey of Black diasporic music, Beyond the Uncanny Valley finds milano. tasked with occupying multiple modes and styles over the course of the record's swift 25 minutes; but as Shapeshyfter established, they come to that challenge with studied ease.
2y
It's a material world, and for Harrison, you have to push the limits working within it to make blue skies reality.
3y
Given time to breathe, to live, to coast, with Shade, Harris has found a new stream to navigate, but with distance, it's clear Grouper doesn't have to commit to one world or another to enjoy their comforts.
4y
Two-and-a-half-hour compilation Tunes 2011-2019 works its way backwards through the last decade of Burial's output, but like many of the producer's post-Untrue undertakings, it generally resists neat and tidy execution.
6y
New voices and ideas fading in and out like ghosts, it's an ambitious second act that meaningfully departs from the proven formula that earned the project early buzz, all to invigorating effect.
7y
It's a concept album charting an arc from despair and isolation to community-minded conviction, with songs logging sonic references to scenes and genres like shoegaze, noise rock and hardcore ... but they're also marked with an emotional depth and artful dynamic shifts that speak for themselves.
7y
It's a high-minded statement of art music that's indebted to the moment.
8y
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