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Spooling through the world’s best tapes
Cassettes
Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For January By Tristan Bath
Tristan Bath looks over this month’s best tapes including ambient sax entropy, a nightmarish trip to a German partykeller, lingering ancestral whispers from Northern Ireland plus krautrock recorded in 1993 at a Lake District cottage
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Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For June By Tristan Bath
Minimal Polish footwork, London Americana, digitally degraded Ecuadorian soundscapes? Tristan Bath’s monthly tape roundup has it all, and is as always, reaching far and wide into the undergrowth to find you the best of June’s cassette releases
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Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For May By Tristan Bath
A series of dreamworlds populate May’s best cassette tape releases as picked by Tristan Bath, including Teleplasmiste's British ruralism, Merry Peers’ surreal trips, digital ayahuasca from Prague’s Izanasz, and a pair of anonymous untraceable synth tapes
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Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For April By Tristan Bath
From the 'uniquely identifiable sonic fingerprint of Elvin Brandhi to the double bass and field recordings improv of Imanishi and Serrato via Massimo Pupillo's debut solo album, here are the cream of this month's cassette crop reviewed by Tristan Bath
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Spool’s Out: Your Cassette Tape Release Roundup For November
For your tapedeck (and bandcamp) delectation, the finest new cassette releases, including the best Japanese producer you never heard of, the modern sound of the trombone, the early work of Rangers, and some postindustrial Northern primitive guitar
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Spool’s Out: Your Cassette Tape Roundup For September
Tristan Bath reviews the month’s best new cassette tapes, including a vast compilation from the Iranian underground, some new directions in psychedelic guitar music, plus an experimental transmission from your favourite dystopian soul outfit, Algiers
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Avatars Of The Unconscious: Stanley Donwood Interviewed
Dan Richards speaks to Radiohead and Thom Yorke artworker, Holloway collaborator, friend and fellow hedge enthusiast Stanley Donwood about the blurred lines between sleeping and waking life, keeping demons out of his house and the big red non-spiders on the front of his new book, Humor
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30 Years On: The Curiously Ignored Lyricism In Slint’s Spiderland
Three decades after the release of Spiderland, Joe Kennedy argues that those who waffle endlessly about post rock have made a mistake in ignoring "a lyrical blueprint which places Gothic imagery at the service of modernist ambiguity"
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I Do Not Have A Name: David Lloyd On The V For Vendetta Mask
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