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Tristan Perich: Parallels

Tristan Perich: Parallels

Minimalism, purism, discipline are the three components that make up Tristan Perich's music and this album in particular.
Zu: Cortar Todo

Zu: Cortar Todo

It roars, dilutes, squeals, shrieks, pulsates and squawks. Welcome to the world of Zu.
John Supko and Bill Seaman: s_traits

John Supko and Bill Seaman: s_traits

This is chance over method: a real post-industrial display of art born out of an immediate flow of ideas, immortalised onto a disk, assembled by the very negation of art that is genuine calculus and roughly adjusted by man
Exit Verse: Exit Verse

Exit Verse: Exit Verse

One can’t help but being drawn in by the output, rather than the method, by the pure creative act, instead of the artistic potency
George Harrison: The Apple Years 1968-75

George Harrison: The Apple Years 1968-75

Listening to the entire production on offer here means delving inside an artist's trajectory. Naivety, genius and clever pop.
smallgang: San

smallgang: San

The main discriminant between a bluff and the worthwhile is quality, and smallgang have plenty of it.
Pink Floyd: The Division Bell (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

Pink Floyd: The Division Bell (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

Welcome to the machine.
Rabbitsss: Penguins

Rabbitsss: Penguins

This is a delicate texture suspended between a colourful rendition of the rigors of contemporary music and ambient pop that somehow manages to retain a playful tone, slightly clouded by a few melancholic lines.
Aisles: 4.45 AM

Aisles: 4.45 AM

The real variance between a band of sophisticated copycats and this bunch is indeed intelligence.
Mike Weis: Don’t Know, Just Walk

Mike Weis: Don’t Know, Just Walk

Give a microphone to a musician and he will record the mortality that surrounds him. Give it to a musician with fear of mortality and he or she will describe what life is all about.
Kronos Quartet: A Thousand Thoughts

Kronos Quartet: A Thousand Thoughts

This is an album about diversity without intellectual compromises. It is how it is because this is the way it is. There is no re-elaboration or, worse, reinterpretation of the existing aesthetic principles.
British Summer Time at Hyde Park

British Summer Time at Hyde Park

Black Sabbath, Faith No More, Soundgarden and more: a tale of music and Independence.