Tag: Simon Knighton

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Alex Weiser - in a dark blue night A plangent, plunging bass line and the traipsing and frolicking of Spiegelberg's clarinet introduce the titular 'Coney Island', which in rhapsodic terms describes a day at the beach without adults or limits, whose highlights include such quintessential fare as a hot dog at Nathan's and a frozen custard, which in the recollection...

Usually navigating the nooks and crannies of South London through smeared and distanciated sound collages which wrap together windswept, late night street recordings, organ drones and smudged tomes of R&B, for her latest album Klein blows the doors open by trading her liminal stock-in-trade for the rawest and scuzziest sheathes of guitar feedback. Harmattan delivered an off-kilter and arms-length take...