ARTICLES
2006 Top 10s and 20s
2006 Artist Picks

ALBUMS
17 Pictures
Angina P
Ateleia
Benni Hemm Hemm
The Boats
Cappablack
Celer
Dead Letters Dead Words
Deceptikon
Deerhunter
Denzel + Huhn
Displayaz
Dollboy
Drone
Eluvium
Emanuele Errante
The Eternals
Fear Falls Burning
Marcus Fjellström
Fonoda
Funkstörung
Goldfrapp
Gyroscope
Robert Henke
James Holden
The Idealist
Anders Ilar
Landing
LCD Soundsystem
Library Tapes
L Pierre
Lullatone
Tor Lundvall
Mad EP
Mahogany
Melodium
Mem1
Daisuke Miyatani
Mole Harness
Momus
Monoceros
Mormo
Mothboy
Original Hamster
Pierson & Horton
Prince Valium
Radical Face
Retail Sectors / Yaporigami
Rylander & Elggren
Scott Solter Plays PIM
Sideshow
Silicone Soul
Skream
Splinters
Mark Templeton
Thread Pulls
T. Raumschmiere
Tycho
Ultre
Virculum
Xela

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
AudioArt 03
Cumulous
Dubstep Allstars Vol. 4
Eriksen / Toft / Utarm
Katapult VA Vol. 3
Let's Lazertag Sometime
Mr Geoffrey & JD Franzke
Skagen / Halvorsen / Toft
Tectonic Plates

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Gabriel Ananda
Robert Bardini
DAT Politics
Dead Letters / R. Sundin
Dogmixer
Benjamin Fehr
Fenin
HL
I Make This Sound
Zoë Irvine
Kyriakides and Moor
Lamont & 2tall
Ljud. & Piloten / Kama Aina
Jacob London
Sam Mcqueen
Miskate
Ryo Miyashita & Hiiragi_
[nara]
New Faces
Of / Greg Davis
Charlemagne Palestine
Phon.o vs Litwinenko
Portable
PostPrior
Samarah
Nicholas Sauser & Ditch
Someone Else
Hannes Teichmann
Tractile
Andy Vaz

IMAGES
F.S. Blumm

Library Tapes: Feelings for Something Lost
Resonant

Following last year's debut Alone In The Bright Lights Of A Shattered Life, Swedish contemporary classical duo David Wenngren and Per Jardsell (Library Tapes) offer up another fine-tuned collection of atmospheric piano-based minimalism. At only 29-minutes, Feelings for Something Lost is over quickly yet the duo's sophomore effort doesn't feel incomplete. As before, the music often sounds like it's on the verge of decomposing, with the twelve tunes' creaking, faded, and dusty noises sounding like they're coming from broken equipment exhumed from someone's attic on a rain-drenched afternoon. Max Richter and Sylvain Chauveau are Library Tapes' kindred spirits although the latter's autumnal piano vignettes are typically accompanied by field noises and textures. During “abandoned houses hiding in flickering shadows,” a decrepit film projector appears to churn in the background while a needle carves a groove into an old 78 on an ancient turntable. Elsewhere a pretty piano melody resounds alongside clanking chains (“Lines Running Low Through 7th (...The Shame Of It All...)”) or is heard against the roaring crackle of a campfire (“shut your eyes and you'll find the trees turning into flames”). Deaf Center 's Erik Skodvin helps intensify the nightmarish ambiance on “Departures (Burning Saints For Your Own Sins)” while “when we no longer are around to write our love on each other's eyelids” is gentle and reflective by comparison. The album's most special moment arrives with the guest appearance of Colleen (Cécile Schott) whose plucked chords illuminate the stately “Leaves Abstract In A Village Plunged Into Mourning” and bring some welcome uplift to the duo's often lugubrious material.

January 2007