The Mall World and Backrooms of Music
At first, the shock of recognition of Mall World and Backrooms music is slightly sickening, yet ultimately Proustian-ly satisfying in its uncanny familiarity.
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Broadcast’s ‘Distant Call’ Shows There Were Always Haunting
Broadcast’s music always felt mysterious with a degree of distance and isolation. Broadcast were always haunting, and Distant Call leads to that realization.
The Advisory Circle Seem Less Haunted on ‘Full Circle’
The Advisory Circle’s Full Circle tunes in, drones on, and drops out. It’s less evocative of the hauntology aesthetic and more of a contemporary ambient electronic album.
‘Arcadia’ Fashions a Creepy Collage from Archive Footage of Britain’s Countryside
Folk horror, hauntology, and archive footage combine to form an unsettling portrait of rural Britain.