T H I S M U S I C W I N S
A music blog and radio series by Peter Lanceley, a writer, musician and broadcaster based in Brighton, UK. Click the artwork below to listen to my most recent LP with Kinnie The Explorer.

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February 4th
3:18 PM
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Resonance FM #34 Kinlaw, Wild Nothing, In India, North Bay, Derek Piotr, Beach Fossils

Listen live on Resonance 104.4 FM Saturday evening at 6.30pm (GMT). Or stream/download the 34th This Music Wins below.

Listen/Download: This Music Wins #34 (MP3)

1. Kinlaw - BRA§E

2. Wild Nothing - Nowhere

3. In India - Spring Song (Glossolalia)

4. North Bay - Echo (via Gold Flake Paint / Crack In The Road)

5. Derek Piotr - Focus (Jhom’s Repetez Remix)

6. Beach Fossils - Shallow

#captured tracks      #radio show      #radioshow      #gold flake paint      #crack in the road      #north bay      #derek piotr      #agora      #beach fossils      #in india      #klange      #kinlaw      #kindred tapes     
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February 1st
2:54 PM
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Swansea Recreation Centre + Blood Rexdale And The Walls Are Blonde - Unchained Swan Blood

I’ve always considered the humorous element to Swansea Recreation Centre’s music one of its defining features, so I was pleased to see its patent exaggeration on this collaboration with Toronto folk band Blood Rexdale And The Walls Are Blonde (who provided vocals), for this bouncy synth-pop influenced quasi-cover of The Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody”. The video teeters on the cusp of sublimity, and I’m so taken up in the Ariel Pink-esque vibe of the whole creation that I felt an urgent need to post it up here. Here’s some thoughts on SRC’s previous releases, the bandcamp page of BRATWAB (also worth checking out) and a link to SRC’s heavily stylised, entertaining and oft-updated tumblr page.

#swansea recreation centre      #blood rexdale and the walls are blonde      #bratwab      #psychedelic      #ariel pink      #toronto      #folk      #synthpop     
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January 31st
5:58 PM
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Major Napier - Major Soldier EP

I first introduced Australian artist Major Napier to you last November; a time when I was particularly enamoured with his cover of Sharon Van Etten’s Lovemore. Almost immediately after I wrote, he released a free download EP of bedroom-recorded songs entitled ‘Major Soldier’, which I was reminded of via an enthused post on Zen Tapes today. The slow, booming drum-sound prevalent throughout “Crowning Observation” (below) is idiosyncratic of the whole release, Johnny Ross careful to  keep the beat sufficiently organic-sounding and sunken in reverb to explicate the full aura of lo-fi ambience. There’s a new electronic dimension here; and a wide-ranging set of angular multi-layered harmonies which are decidedly direction-less. ’Amazing/ A Tribute to Jan Zajíc’ is a frivolous and swirling hip-hop influenced piece of folk-induced electronica, with a loose Kanye-style autotune (which works in the least obnoxious way possible) and Braids-esque psychedelic grandeur in the instrumentals. The limited-run CD will set you back just $10 Australian dollars, the download is totally free. Both options workable from Major Napier’s Bandcamp page.

#major napier      #australia      #stag      #reverb      #new music      #ambient      #braids      #autotune     
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January 27th
6:58 PM
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Resonance FM #33 In India, Memoryhouse, IVVVO, SNOWMINE, Coma Cinema, Carnivals

LISTEN: This Music Wins #33 (MP328/1/2012

Tracklist

1. In India - Chime Dance

2. Memoryhouse - The Kids Were Wrong

3. IVVVO - Forests

4. SNOWMINE - Curfews

5. Coma Cinema - Only

6. Carnivals - Ino (Parts I + II)

#carnivals      #coma cinema      #in india      #ivvvo      #klange      #memoryhouse      #snowmine      #radioshow     
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January 25th
11:33 PM
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New: StaG - Lived Like String

Some of the ambient music which I find most compelling is the kind in which reverb decorates a steady, driving percussion. Similarly, much of the value of music I find consists in what the musician chooses to leave out, rather than what they choose to include. On StaG’s newest single, ‘Lived Like String’, I’m hearing a sunken, Church-like drift suggestive of enormity, hinting at an reserved emptiness which is totally out of reach of the listener. The beat is slow, mechanical and restless but not at the cost of organicity, and a kind of spiritual solitude and richness displaying itself in the follow up to their first full-length album is consistently vast and flowing. Rifle Meeker was one of my top albums of 2011, and perhaps Lived Like String will be up there with my songs of 2012. 

#stag      #rifle meeker      #lived like string      #ambient     
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New: Carnivals - Absences/Ino (Parts 1 & 2)

Having uncovered Carnivals’ first release just under a year ago in the form of the Mavi Kara EP, I’m seriously excited for the year ahead now the Sheffield ‘romanticist’ producer has returned with a double sided single ‘Absences / Ino (Parts 1 & 2). In a field of moody electronica suffering saturation and lacking true pioneers, Carnivals is leaning towards an amalgamation of his former sounds: leading to the minimalist and vaguely exotic hip-hop sound particularly prevalent on ‘Leeda’ (which I broadcast at the Netaudio Festival in May), and its being combined with the claustrophobic tendencies, overcast, disconsolate murmurs and climactic, scintillating motifs to bring us ‘Absences & Ino’. One of this year’s most promising surprises has come very early on indeed..

#carnivals      #mavi kara      #netaudio      #this music wins      #sheffield      #absences      #electronica     
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