Andrew Forell
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Listening, Looking, Reading, ‘Riting. Contributor Dusted Magazine
“Bits of The Beatles and The Troggs, Deerhunter and Girls, Richman and Dylan swirl into a mix that occasionally dips into bathos but earworms its way back,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7985716... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Golden Apples — Shooting Star (Lame-0)
Photo by Luke Ivanovich The game of “name that bit” is a minor distraction to the enjoyment of the latest Golden Apples album. While Russell Edling is responsible for the writing, singing,...
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“Berlin artist Ziūr reckons with notions of home, nationality and identity,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7968616... @andrewforell.bsky.social
“Part fusion, part plunderphonics, The Radiant Radish is, as the title might suggest, a playful subversion of form,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7955027... @hausumountain.bsky.social @andrewforell.bsky.social
“Ping is not, Mumdance stresses, perhaps with tongue slightly lodged in cheek, a genre, more a feeling based on freedom from the tyranny of the kick drum” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7942230... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Various Artists — Ping Vol 1 (Different Circles)
Photo of Mumdance by William Waterworth Different Circles - Ping Devil Meme As genres mutate and multiply, the etymologists of electronica delve deeper into the arcana of minute differences and emerge...
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“As Mondo Lava the pair use old Casios, live percussion and range of acoustic and digital instruments to create a febrile mix of tropicalia, free jazz, doo-wop and psycho-boogie,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7930566... @andrewforell.bsky.social @hausumountain.bsky.social
“Helene Hauff and F#X (AKA Kris Jakob) produce a hyperkinetic form of minimal techno on their new collaborative album R4,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7896931... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Black Sites — R4 (Tresor)
Photo by Tessa Bozek Black Sites - 3D Helene Hauff and F#X (AKA Kris Jakob) produce a hyperkinetic form of minimal techno on their new collaborative album R4. As Black Sites, the German musicians...
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“Seek No End is a work that creates space in which the subtle gestures develop significance through repetition and relation,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7894214... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Austin Rockman/The Surrealist — Seek No End (self-released)
The Surrealist & Austin Rockman - Becoming Unaware Titles like “Decayer” and “Evaporate Everything” suggest that crepuscular claustrophobia will dominate the atmosphere of this collaboration between.....
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“Funeral Music turns out to be an afternoon cocktail picnic of a record. Just enough to get you tipsy, not quite enough to have you reaching for the pills,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7853444... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Triathalon — Funeral Music (Lex)
Photo by Ellie Fallon Grist for romantic misfortune never runs out. New York trio Triathalon — Adam Intrator, Hunter Jayne and Chad Chilton — have been busy at the mill producing 15 ways to leave your...
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“An atmosphere of nowhere towns in dank post-industrial landscapes scarred by decay, cut through by motorways to elsewhere informs Lancashire born Rainy Miller’s new album,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7839855... @andrewforell.bsky.social
“Amanda Mur draws on her homeland’s rich folkloric traditions, her classical training, interest in electronics and operatic vocal control to create music that feels both timeless and entirely modern,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7834534... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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“H.D. Reliquary is the aural equivalent of a Joseph Cornell box. Glimmering passages abut broken remnants and besmeared artefacts in a cabinet of psycho-geographical invocations and dream symbolism,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7821850... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Ben Shirken — H.D. Reliquary (29 Speedway)
Photo by Hailey Heaton Ben Shirken - Image/Player New York sound artist Ben Shirken creates fractured scenes for a fragmented world. Repurposing material from his archive — the hard drive reliquary —....
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Lots of interesting stuff here. I covered recent LPs from Damian Anache, Hieroglyphic Being & Dustin Wong
Jennifer Kelly@jenpkelly.bsky.social · last yr.“This month’s Dust surveys a diverse landscape dotted with jittery dance and placid ambient music, torrid death punk and obliterating doom metal. Let it all bloom, we say.” A new Dust to close the week. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7818226...
“ Within his template minimal techno, Barker adds billowing ambient passages and intricate drum programming,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7809052... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Barker — Stochastic Drift (Smalltown Supersound)
Photo by Easton West Barker - Reframing For a while, “stochastic terrorism” became a catchphrase used to explain the influence of an illiterate cumquat on his more sinister (or, pedantically,...
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“Kassian’s combination of Balearic beats, microhouse and plangent strings is a fine counterpoint to these intermittently dreary days,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7802824... @andrewforell.bsky.social
“A Grand Guignol lark for dancing goths and impenitent imps,” writes Andrew Forell. www.tumblr.com/dustedmagazi... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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Broken English Club — Songs of Love and Decay (Dekmantel) Broken English Club - Prisoner On an album dedicated to the late Juan Mendez AKA Silent Servant (also a member of the Sandwell Distric…
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“If the original influence of trip-hop has been diluted by the echolalia of periodic revivals, soundtrack shortcuts and café friendly chillout compilations, in the right hands it can still be a potent brew,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7782779... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Saffron Bloom — Saffron Bloom (Delicate)
Saffron Bloom - Dirge of the Lonely After releasing a series of albums & EPs under his first name Iranian American producer Sepehr Alimagham adopts the alias Saffron Bloom for his new self-titled...
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“Kilbourne’s approach asks how far you can reduce club music to its atavistic essence without losing its function and appeal,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7772964...
“Whether a metaphor for the persistence of creativity in the face of brutality or simply an oasis of calm in the eye of the storm, the music itself is lovely,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7753033... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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Wrote about new EPs from Cybotron & Helena Hauff on Tresor, Eazy Peazy by Man/Woman/Chainsaw on Fat Possum & Maloviento by Longabardi + Cecchitelli on LINEimprint
Jennifer Kelly@jenpkelly.bsky.social · 2y agoDusted ends the week with a new dust. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7678743... @themodernfolk.bsky.social
Wrote about the latest from Body Metta out now on @hausumountain.bsky.social
Jennifer Kelly@jenpkelly.bsky.social · 2y ago“Even when they seem to be spiraling away on individual orbits there is a centrifugal logic that holds everything together,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7677724... @hausumountain.bsky.social @andrewforell.bsky.social