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Ten Questions with Nicolay

Albums
Aera
Apricot Rail
Darcy James Argue
Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi
Félicia Atkinson
Atom TM
Black Jazz Consortium
Borghi and Teager
Kate Carr
Jace Clayton
Nicholas Cords
Cosmin TRG
Benjamin Damage
T. Dimuzio / Voice of Eye
Field Rotation
Footprintz
Garnica
Stefan Goldmann
Good Luck Mr. Gorsky
Darren Harper
Chihei Hatakeyama
Jerusalem In My Heart
Marsen Jules
Philippe Lamy
Mary Lattimore
Linear Bells
Jay-Dea López
Andrew McPherson
Markus Mehr
Oneirogen
Fabio Orsi & pimmon
Quicksails
Simian Mobile Disco
Colin Stetson
The Third Man
Simon Whetham
Yuco

Compilations / Mixes
Art Department
Balance presents jozif
+FE Music: The Reworks
Ruede Hagelstein
Inscriptions Vol. 2
Rebel Rave 3
Your Victorian Breasts

EPs / Cassettes / Singles
Broken Chip
City of Satellites
Fescal
Isan
jffstnhs
Librah
Yann Novak
Simon Whetham

jffstnhs: Broken
Cooper Cult

Taking a decidedly nightmarish turn, the latest release from Cooper Cult evokes states of discombobulation and psychosis. jffstnhs' aptly titled Broken finds Jeff Stonehouse losing the vowels and assuming a considerably darker persona than that associated with his previous project Listening Mirror.

Presented in a three-inch CD format (in an edition of 50 copies), the twenty-two-minute piece opens with a sample of a man's voice that's so distorted the words can barely be deciphered before plunging into a black hole of cavernous rumble. The sound mass reverberates insistently thereafter in such a way as to invite the genre classification dark ambient, though deep-space drone might be just as viable a descriptor. Gradually the intensity level subsides, a move that allows a cycling flow of convulsions to become more dominant, until the hazy mass returns, this time swelling into a crackling cloud and surrendering to madness all the more. Crank that stereo as loudly as it can go, and then lie back and strap yourself in for this haunted trip to the outermost reaches.

April 2013