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Deux Filles

Our English Friends

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Deux Filles

Our English Friends

Sincerely poignant sonic fiction from two tragic French teens (played by two English blokes in drag)

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Julia Holter

Hello, Stranger

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Julia Holter

Hello, Stranger

Highly sophisticated pop seduction with a very Lynchian appeal

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GROUPER

STS

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GROUPER

STS

Barely-there drone pop bliss, among Liz Harris' most subtly affective pieces

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JESSICA BAILIFF

This Is Real

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JESSICA BAILIFF

This Is Real

Curiously ambiguous pop elegy summoning the spirit of classic Julee Cruise

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Felicia Atkinson

A Sweet Thing

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Felicia Atkinson

A Sweet Thing

Trippy, orientalist instrumental by the lady known as Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier

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Lee Noble

I Don't Blame You, We're Having the Same Dream

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Lee Noble

I Don't Blame You, We're Having the Same Dream

Wonderfully original and seamless melding of kosmische, ambient drone and shoegaze memes

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LOREN CONNORS

Part 5

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LOREN CONNORS

Part 5

A spectral guitar masterpiece by the shadowy American experimentalist

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Ekin Fil

Two Stars

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Ekin Fil

Two Stars

Quiet highlight of the emergent Turkish singer/songwriter's eponymous 2nd album

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Chaines

Transverberation

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Chaines

Transverberation

Surreal, almost chilling modern composition by the RNCM student

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AGF

Hum Pitch Play

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AGF

Hum Pitch Play

Haunting vocal treatments based on Sami tribe's wind-singing techniques

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Rainier Lericolais & Sylvain Chauveau

The Absence

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Rainier Lericolais & Sylvain Chauveau

The Absence

Very canny use of light/dark, quiet/loud pop & electro acoustic dynamics

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Dirty Beaches

Alone At The Danube River

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Dirty Beaches

Alone At The Danube River

Heart-in-mouth chamber blues from an incredible new album

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Colin Stetson

High Above a Grey Green Sea

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Colin Stetson

High Above a Grey Green Sea

Remarkably restrained but vivid and vast soundscaping

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SEAN MCCANN

Have I Forgotten?

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SEAN MCCANN

Have I Forgotten?

Spellbinding ambient guitar nocturnal

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This time on 14tracks:

“14 tracks: Chamber drift”

This week's selection sways from wistful drone pop to gauzy ambient and modern compositions; collecting 14 songs with an elemental, folksy awareness which share a rarified, surreal atmosphere. We've picked those with a timeless sense of romance and an elegant, breezy feel for space, spanning the work of preternaturally gifted vocalists such as Liz Harris aka Grouper, Turkey's Ekin Fil and L.A. nightingale Julia Holter, and boundary-pushing experimenters AGF or Chaines, plus gorgeous, chamber-like pieces from Loren Connors, Lee Noble, and Dirty Beaches alongside the widescreen soundscape impressionism of Colin Stetson and Sean McCann, and the enchanting ambient pop of Deux Filles aka Simon Turner and Colin Tucker. They're sensitive sonic balms for melancholic souls; an elusive catharsis for ether dreamers and escapologists.

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