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March: 18 albums you need to hear this month

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  • Words: Mixmag Crew | Photo: Rhodri Brooks
  • 1 March 2018
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Various 'In Death’s Dream Kingdom' (Houndstooth)

For its In Death’s Dream Kingdom comp, Houndstooth asked 25 left-field electronica artists to respond to either the title phrase or the poem it’s from, TS Eliot’s 1925 text The Hollow Men. The results are hardly going to get your party pumping, but this is the absolute cream of available weirdness, with Lanark Artefax, Batu, Gazelle Twin and Peder Mannerfelt incorporating raw noise, grime, claustrophobic techno, abstracted jungle, sci-fi soundtrack vibes and neo-classical, all within a broadly ambient framework. But for all the variety within that, those ambient ticks allow it to form a coherent whole, despite the diversity of approaches and influences. Pretentious? Maybe, but it’s an extraordinary ride. Joe Muggs

8/10

 
 
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