Tag: Klein

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

For her last album marked the South London maverick Klein swapped her usual grab bag of sodden gospel and keening soul plus all of those other furtive and windswept, street-wired late night atmospherics for a searingly up-front barrage of guitar feedback. In swift succession thirteen sense ploughs the same sort of furrow, on the one hand less visceral and...

Fresh beginnings plus a few festive odds and ends make for something of a party atmosphere on the first tracks of the week for 2025. As new albums from the likes of Relative Pitch and ECM peek over the horizon other labels like 577 Records, Room40, Vaagner and ESP-Disk barrel right out of the gates with full-length releases while...