Articles
Spotlight 10
Ten Favourite Labels 2013

Albums
52 Commercial Road
Chantal Acda
David Åhlén
Daniel Bortz
Peter Broderick
Brass Mask
bvdub / bvdub & loscil
Colorlist
Dale Cooper Quartet
Cuushe
Jack Dangers
Deco
Deetron
DFRNT
Egbert
The Foreign Exchange
Nils Frahm
Bjarni Gunnarsson
Robert Haigh
Marihiko Hara & Polar M
John Heckle
Arve Henriksen
Joy Wellboy
Kaboom Karavan
KILN
Land of Kush
Jessy Lanza
Last Days
L.B. Dub Corp
Lights Dim with Gallery Six
Livity Sound
Moskitoo
MUfi.re
Oddisee
Om Unit
Ø [Phase]
Raudive
Matana Roberts
Sakamoto + Deupree
Secret Pyramid
Quentin Sirjacq
Sleeper
Sonicbrat
Special Request
Stratosphere & Serries
Thisquietarmy
Ricardo Tobar
Tom Trago

Compilations / Mixes
Foundland
In The Dark
Mathias Kaden

EPs / Cassettes / Singles
Anduin
Anile / Lm1 & Kharm
Cursa
Gerwin & Nuage ft. 2Shy
Hessien
Jon McMillion
Miaou

CD-Vinyl-DVD
Seaman and Tattered Sail

Anduin: Richmond Tape Club Volume Four
Richmond Tape Club

The fourth volume in Richmond Tape Club's series of twenty-minute EPs from Richmond, Virginia-based electronic artists (available digitally and in a cassette run of 100 copies), Jonathan Lee's Anduin set is not necessarily the project's most distinctive one to date (as those preceding it by Negative Gemini, Elian, and Slow News Day in the Vampire World have certainly been that) as the one that feels most like a fully rounded mini-album statement.

Developed from material originally heard in installation performances titled Sketches of the Lesser Death, the cassette's five tracks represent the first new Anduin material since 2012's Stolen Years LP. But though individual tracks are identified, the cassette presents them more in the form of side-long suites with the pieces bleeding into one another. The overall tone of Stolen Years reasserts itself in material that resembles a churning undertow of dark industrial-ambient and acoustic jazz. Jimmy Ghaphery contributes bluesy saxophone riffing to Lee's quietly disturbing soundscapes, which also feature harmonica wail and electric guitar haze from from Noah Saval and Graham Scala, respectively. Little sunlight peeks through these atmospheric settings, whose diseased rhythm pulses and field recordings of traffic noise and nocturnal insects more evoke rainy, night-time city settings than sunny countryside excursions.

November 2013