Tim Hecker #2 in Drowned in Sound’s 50 Favourite Albums Of The Year 2011 (Posted By Harry)
Tim Hecker in DiS 50 Favourite Albums Of The Year Tim Hecker// Ravedeath 1972 [Kranky] Great news that Tim Hecker has been placed at #2 in Drowned In Sound’s albums end of year list, an album that definitely deserves it. Tim Hecker ‘Hatred of Music I’ [Kranky] Here’s the list in full, see what you … Continue reading
The Field in NME’s Best Albums Of 2011 (Posted By Harry)
The Field #28 in NME‘s Best Albums List 2011 The Field ‘Looping State Of Mind’ (Kompakt) “When attention spans are increasingly shot to pieces, Axle Wilner makes music that circumnavigates the Tumblr-numbed brained, turning instead into some natural, eternal rhythm. On ‘Looping…’ he perfected his style of rich techno fastidiously built from loops of sound. … Continue reading
Rough Trade Shops ‘Top 100 Albums of the Year 2011’ (Posted By Harry)
Rough Trade Shops Albums of the Year 2011 Top 100 Everyone loves a list, Nick Hornby knew it and wrote a book based on them, and now Rough Trade have produced a very fine list, and it’s always nice to see artists that we distribute for, in the list. Here at SRD, we’ll be posting … Continue reading
“This is house music at its very best” The Field’s Q Review (Posted By Harry)
Q Review of The Field’s ‘Looping State Of Mind’ The Field “Looping State Of Mind” (Kompakt) “…Each of the album’s seven tracks starts with a simple groove and meticulously builds on those foundations, creating a collection of electronic soundscapes that somehow occupy a parallel space between the dancefloor and the after-party…Boundless and ecstatic, this is … Continue reading
The Field gets nice NME & Mixmag Reviews (Posted By Harry)
The Field reviewed in NME and Mixmag The Field ‘Looping State Of Mind’ (Kompakt) 8/10 Review in NME “It’s expansively, ecstatically excellent for many of the same reasons as The Field’s previous two blissful, loop-based hymns, at the intersection between shoegazing, trance and minimal techno…But these seven tracks, which average nine minutes apiece, contains moves … Continue reading
The Field ‘Looping State Of Mind’ 4 Star Review in Uncut (Posted By Harry)
Looping State Of Mind gets 4 Stars in Uncut The Field ‘Looping State Of Mind’ (Kompakt) “Axel Willner aka The Field takes a singular, immediately recognisable and highly infectious approach to dance music, the same as he has taken since his brilliant 2007 debut From Here We Go Sublime. He takes a sawn off loop, … Continue reading
The Field in NME’s “10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week” (Posted By Harry)
The Field in NME‘s “10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week” The Field – ‘Then It’s White’ “Another swinging hypnotist’s watch of a track from the Kompakt wunderkind, this cut from forthcoming LP ‘Looping State Of Mind’ compresses all the compulsive repetition of his previous into just under eight minutes and adds Fridge-esque vocal … Continue reading
FoxyDigitalis Interviews Walls (Posted By Harry)
FoxyDigitalis Interviews Walls Kompakt will release Coracle on 26th September In 2010 Sam Willis of London DJ duo Allez-Allez came together with Alessio Natalizia of bedroom pop project Banjo Or Freakout to release the first, self-titled WALLS album. Released on Kompakt, the über-slick German label best known for records by The Field, Gui Boratto and … Continue reading
The Field – Looping State Of Mind gets 8.5 on Pitchfork (Posted By Harry)
THE FIELD get 8.5 on Pitchfork The Field – Looping State Of Mind (Kompakt) The title of the Field’s third album, Looping State of Mind, might have you thinking that producer Axel Willner is getting back to basics. Especially after he strayed, with only intermittent success, from his instantly recognizable template on his 2009 sophomore … Continue reading
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