Plutonic Rainbows

Dean Hurley - Anthology Resource Vol. 1

August 07, 2017

Sacred Bones has just released Anthology Resource Vol. 1: △△, an album composed entirely of Dean Hurley’s sound design work for the new season of Twin Peaks. Hurley has worked with David Lynch for over a decade and acted as sound designer and music supervisor on Lynch’s last feature Inland Empire.

Twin Peaks: The Return has hosted an exceptional array of musicians performing at the Roadhouse, including “the” Nine Inch Nails and Hudson Mohawke. Hurley took the stage at the show’s iconic watering hole, as well, playing the drums with Alex Zhang Hungtai and Riley Lynch as Trouble in episode 5 of The Return.

You can hear and purchase the full compilation over at Bandcamp.

Steve Roach - Long Thoughts

August 06, 2017

If you a fan of ambient electronic pioneer Steve Roach, you will be pleased to know he has two albums out now. The first, Long Thoughts is an epic 74-minute piece of deep, brooding electronics. The second album, Nostalgia for the Future contains a selection of shorter tracks - again in an ambient style.

Steve Roach has been one of the most revered and prolific artists for many years now and his new albums show that he has lost none of his fine sense of how to craft beautiful, shifting clouds of electronic aural bliss.

The new works are available in a variety of formats including a limited run of cassettes and 24Bit editions.

NMESH - Pharma

August 01, 2017

Vaporwave artist NMESH returns this Friday with a new album, Pharma on Orange Milk Records. It's the first album since 2014's Dream Sequins.

You can preorder the new album here.

Update: Tapes have are already sold out in 5 hours. However, other retailers may have it in the next few days. There will also be a repress later in the year.

Midnight Deluxe - Palm Grove Galleria

July 26, 2017

This excellent Bandcamp vaporwave release available this week warps us back through time to strolling through a shopping mall in 1990. Midnight Deluxe has done a great job of creating the ambience of that vanished age from the muzak-inspired vapidness of Money and Minds to the slightly sinister Mannequins.

The digital album is available now on Bandcamp.

Elizabeth Fraser

July 26, 2017

This last Sunday (23rd), the inimitable singer of the much-adored Cocteau Twins made a rare public appearance and discussed the Blue Bell Knoll album with John Grant. The full interview is available at The Quietus.

Elizabeth Fraser:

"I listened to Blue Bell Knoll for the first time in years and I cried, I just thought it was so lovely," says Fraser, remembering the creative process as an opportunity for the band to escape the pressures of their private lives. "It was quite a difficult time, and I think we just decided to throw ourselves into the creativity. Getting immersed in that process and not worrying about how it would be perceived or the outcome, just going with the flow without expectations, no endgame, just enjoy it, and if it's not working try something else."