I just spent 75 lovely mins sat in a dark room listening to drone music played on 4x cello, 1x viola, 1x violin, 2x Fr horn, and 1x bloody great pipe organ. Hurrah for Claire M Singer and the London Contemporary Orchestra at the QEH. Tick v.g. would bliss out to again.

First impressions: Well, the Charlotte de Witte album bangs very pleasingly, doesn't it?
charlottedewittemusic.bandcamp.com/album/charlo...

The Tilda Swinton spoken word bit on the new Orbital track is mostly pretty unimaginative faux-guided-meditation stuff... But there's a bit in the middle which deadpans some lyrics from Lionel Bart's Oliver! and I have two responses to this. They are (1) what? and (2) no.

If you're a watchmaker or clockmaker, you don't talk about your products having features, you talk about them having complications. I think this is a very healthy attitude and we should adopt it more widely.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complic...

Hey folks. I just posted my albums (and bonus track) of 2024. Jungle! Post-footwork, apparently! Horizontal hip hop! Chiptune singeli! Electronic drone folk something something! Stoned robots auditioning to be Tom Waits’ backing band! It's got something for everyone???
dogrando.net/2025/01/07/m...