Dean McPhee has shared a video for “Indica Fields” from “Northern Earth”, his sixth full-length album, due 11 September on Bass Ritual. The video uses BFI archive footage from the final edition of the National Coal Board’s Mining Review series. Originally a sold-out limited cassette, the album arrives on 180g heavyweight vinyl — three compositions recorded live with no overdubs.
Garefowl return with “Things That Vanish,” their second album, recorded on St Kilda’s main island at night. No synthesizers were used — drones were created from X-ray diffracted rock and bone samples. Nine tracks, each named for one of the archipelago’s threatened seabirds. Out 2 October via AD 93.
Max Subar’s “Anything Could Be” started with ten days alone in a house on a frozen Wisconsin lake — just a mobile rig, live vocals and guitar. Back in Chicago, a small cast of collaborators gave the recordings flesh without crowding them. Loose, lived-in and radically patient, Subar walks us through his Merge Records debut track by track.
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