Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #24 - Richard Skelton interview + new selected releases
Our regular look at the best in ambient/drone/modern classical, featuring an interview with ambient/modern classical master Richard Skelton.»
Articles
benfyffemusic has written the following articles:
Therapy? - Disquiet
If Disquiet proves anything, it’s that Therapy? still have plenty of life in them.»
Ufomammut - Ecate
This is both the album Ufomammut completists will have been awaiting and the best album for new listeners to get their ears stuck into.»
Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells - The Most Important Place in the World
The album displays a kind of elegiac beauty»
From the Beginning: DiS Meets Anathema
Whilst they have never been flavour of the month for the mainstream music press, Anathema are more popular than ever...»
Vessels - Dilate
Dilate never emerges with its own personality»
Torche - Restarter
It’s the sound of a band stuck, understandably, between rock and a hard place.»
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #23
EUS, Postdrome & Saåad album stream plus the best ambient releases and forthcoming gigs.»
Aphex Twin - Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2
Anyone who feared Richard James had lost his desire to push forward need fear no more.»
Noveller - Fantastic Planet
The jury is out on how far Fantastic Planet benefits from being constrained by its determination to fit preconceived structural limits.»
The Finest Ambient Releases of 2014
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds columnist Ben Bland compiles his favourite ambient releases of the year including Grouper, Loscil, AWVFTS, Wolfgang Voigt and more.»
Lubomyr Melnyk - Melnyk: Evertina
Something of a godsend for those who want the festive season accompanied by music of sublime beauty.»
Yo La Tengo - Extra Painful
A welcome reminder of an album that has never quite gained the classic status it deserves.»
USA Nails - Sonic Moist
This record would work well as an introduction to a large network of lesser known UK groups who have been doing horrible things to the twitching remains of punk for several years now»
Clark - Clark
The producer’s first self-titled effort is a near perfect distillation of his oeuvre to date. There’s prettiness here in spades»
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #22
The Ambient Sounds column returns, packed to the brim with glorious soundscapes...»
Pharmakon - Bestial Burden
power electronics could do with more artists like Pharmakon»
DiS meets A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Ben Bland chats to AWVFTS about their new album 'Atomos', and how there might never be a follow up...»
Video premiere: Last Ex 'Girl Seizure'
Constellation stalwarts Do Make Say Think and Exhaust are reference points but it’s the redesigned krautrock of Tortoise that is most suitably comparable to Last Ex’s approach here.»
Black Moth - Condemned to Hope
There are bands not all that dissimilar to Black Moth in every other city in the country but few play like they really mean it.»
Pere Ubu - Carnival of Souls
The sound of a band that, all things considered, has upheld remarkably high standards over a four decade career.»
Esben and The Witch - A New Nature
A New Nature breathes more freely than anything this group has ever produced.»
J Mascis - Tied to a Star
It’s hard to see how non-Dinosaur Jr fans are going to be particularly excited about Tied to a Star.»
Rumour Cubes - Appearances of Collections
Caressing violins, gently sweeping guitars and shuffling rhythms, this is one band that adeptly captures the fading magic of a dying season of sun.»
Grumbling Fur - Preternaturals
If the future is bright, then the future must also be furry.»
Talons - New Topographics
Contemporary post-rockers Talons combine the vibrant urgency of Russian Circles and the orchestral deftness of Mono.»
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #21
Ben Bland discusses the best ambient releases of Summer 2014...»
Lawrence English - Wilderness of Mirrors
There’s absolutely no doubting the supreme quality of Wilderness of Mirrors.»
Cardiacs - Sing to God (reissue)
Sing to God takes everything Cardiacs had always been and ramps it up to maximum.»
Sonisphere 2014: the DiS review
Hopefully, after this triumphant comeback, Sonisphere can return for another successful weekend in 2015.»