Gentle Confrontation: Vinyl 2LP Leif Vollebekk meant that he had moved

meant that he had moved on to making his next record before this one was finished

splintering droplets of notes as ghostly wisps of melodic sound slowly glide into view

performed in Canada by an all-star quintet of bebop founders which would never be reunited again

a new compilation that has evolved from the thriving eponymous playlist

forsaking the explicit narrative connectivity of A Short Story About a War for a more implicit thematic framework

Gentle Confrontation: Vinyl 2LP Leif Vollebekk meant that he had movedGentle Confrontation, Loraine James's third Hyperdub album, opens a new chapter of her real and sonic life in which she examines her past and present. It's a positively languid, enjoyably disjointed set made while listening to her teenage favourites; math rock and emo electronic such as DNTEL, Lusine and Telefon Tel Aviv. The album also features an ever more diverse set of peers, placing them in her unusual musical settings and drawing out sensitive