Musings from the MEANS editor…
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RESISTANCE TO DEPOETIZATION
The making of the album with Ukrainian poets “Chimerical twenties” – new light bearerswill say about us one day in this very living room.Hello, we melted as butter in porridge,but in your memory we… Read more
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MEANS: June picks
Want to know what the MEANS writers have been enjoying over the last month? We’ve put together a list of awesome things that currently tickle our fancy: check them out below! Phantasmagoria of Jathila… Read more
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RSN – Indistinction 1/2
Recently I sat down with RSN’s two new, simultaneously released albums, indistinction #1 and indistinction #2 – fresh off German experimental label attenuation circuit – and got ready for some deep listening. Almost immediately… Read more
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Long read: David Curington – Screen Time
Part I: Curington’s Eustress Screen Time Compositions Various studies researching the effects of excessive screen time and media multitasking have suggested that it can overload the sensory system, fracture attention span, deplete mental reserves,… Read more
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Volodja Brodsky : Whispering Ln.
Ambient music is pretty boring I guess but we’re ok with that. Not to knock Volodja Brodsky: boring is the other side of beautiful and Whispering Ln. demonstrates that well. Cue haunting thereminesque synths… Read more
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Unwavering : Slow Digression
Meandering, down-played, mildly depressing slow-core: Unwavering excel at setting a mood. Slow Digression is the sort of track that paints such a clear picture from the outset that you can just listlessly bask in… Read more
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What were the skies like when you were young?
I am going to write this in two parts as part two is the reason for part one and the whole thing in general, confused? You will be, but hopefully a little less confused… Read more
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interview : FOLD
Being a proud Leeds lad and an unashamedly sample, scratching and beats addict it was always going to be inevitable that the Leeds band FOLD would line up in my sights.In a recent Bandcamp… Read more
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Tim Eveleigh : Overture
“I’m a middle-aged middle-class singer-songwriter from South London. Sound familiar? Yes, I know – it’s another bloke-with-a-guitar,” so says Tim Eveleigh. And it’s true he’s been around forty odd years performing his own songs… Read more
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