Albums

Brandon Seabrook has already delivered one of the best records and record titles of the year through the curious yet evocative Hellbent Daydream. A slower burn which captivated me as winter bit and springtime beckoned, the album featured an uncanny blend of spumy coast-hopping surf rock, steely and pensive chromaticism and spindly hoedowns where his banjo led the dance,...

From the first spectral shudder of the sub-bass Oblique by Ghost Dubs summons a stream of comparisons from Drexciyan submersibles to the dub minimalism of Basic Channel. On the album opener 'Low Times' there is also some Kraftwerk and their 'Hall of Mirrors' or 'Showroom Dummies' and even a bit of gamelan percussion mixed up in the DNA. Most...

The pianist Kris Davis and her trio with Robert Hurst on the double bass and Johnathan Blake on the drums has put in the hours since the release of their acclaimed debut Run the Gauntlet, which means in airports and hotel lobbies and all those other spaces seemingly designed to distress and disorientate as well as up on stage where they might feel more at home. Lost in Geneva nods to travel mishaps and apparitional cities but also to the camaraderie that might be forged through shared life on the road...