ARTICLES
Benoît Pioulard's Précis
Label: Dynamophone
Label: Hidden Shoal

ALBUMS
Aemae
A Lily
Arc Lab
Blotnik Brothers
Gui Boratto
Cagesan
Jeremy Caulfield
Loren Dent
Do Make Say Think
Eats Tapes
Enduser
Domink Eulberg
Explosions in the Sky
Michael Fahres
The Field
Frivolous
Maximilian Hecker
Hug
Hush Arbors
Jan-M. Iversen
Espen Jørgensen
Kattoo
O.Lamm
Bruce Levingston
Tobias Lilja
Lusine
Marcia Blaine School
The Missing Ensemble
Nebulo
Ölvis
Charlemagne Palestine
Palomar
Pornopop
The Postmarks
Propergol Y Colargol
The Retail Sectors
R/R Coseboom
Sankt Otten
Scratch Massive
Slow Dancing Society
Stars of the Lid
subtractiveLAD
Sunosis
Aoki Takamasa
Amon Tobin
Tokyo Mask
Kate Wax
Wes Willenbring
Windmill

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
Chaos.Lovers
Cryosphere
Hub: 2004-2005
Rufs
Satoshi Tomiie

3" /7" /10"/12"/EPs
Agnes
AM/PM
Arctic Sunrise
Audion
Characterize 1
Dartriix
Death is Nothing To Fear
Don't Be A Stranger
Einóma
Fusiphorm
Heartthrob
Human Nature
Infant Cycle / Antmanuv
Lilienweiss
Luci
Mauve
Paco Osuna
Ben Parris
Carola Pisaturo
Portable
Sutekh
System
Aoki Takamasa
Cortney Tidwell
Andy Vaz

Mauve: Sweet Noise on the Sofa
Mauve

Sweet Noise on the Sofa is a surprisingly strong, self-released EP by Mauve, a post-rock trio from Verbania, Italy that formed in May 2005. Guitarists Carlo Tosi and Alberto Corsi and drummer Elda Belfanti prove themselves equally adept at crafting delicate interweaves sweetened by an occasional glockenspiel as they are unleashing dissonant squalls of stabbing noise. “Miles Davis” is a solid opener, even if it stylistically has more in common with Italian post-rockers Giardini di Mirò than it does the legendary trumpeter. Tosi adds a pleasant if somewhat bland vocal to the otherwise appealing slow-burner “Keep Me Warm” where the guitarists' snub-nosed lines clearly nod in Robert Fripp's direction, while “Mauve Paranoid” moves from delicate guitar passages to volcanic episodes where the six-strings explode with lethal force. “Autumn Leaves” isn't a fifteen-minute epic but a vocal-based song that decompresses from violence to serenity in five minutes, followed, after four minutes, by a bedroom-styled exercise in glockenspiel-guitar interplay. Certainly a promising enough debut.

April 2007