Oliver Arditi

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  • Cutleri – Let Me Show You My Sweater (folk/ Americana)

    Cutleri – Let Me Show You My Sweater (folk/ Americana)

    Production standards for self released music have become so generically polished and exact, that it has almost ceased to be meaningful or valuable to release a well recorded album. I’m being facetious, obviously, and of course I like to hear music I like sounding good, but sometimes the slickness of everything becomes incredibly desolate; some… Read more

  • Monday Musings: Information Wants To Be Free, or How Do You Own A Sound?

    Monday Musings: Information Wants To Be Free, or How Do You Own A Sound?

    There’s a lot of thought being given, in all quarters, to how to turn music into money in the unprecedented circumstances in which we find ourselves. What is music worth? What is it about music that is tradeable? What parts of the traditional commercial landscape are worth defending? To what extent do people and organisations Read more

  • Steve Lawson – 11 Reasons Why 3 Is Greater Than Everything (ambient)

    Steve Lawson – 11 Reasons Why 3 Is Greater Than Everything (ambient)

    The pieces on this album are indeed highly atmospheric, but don’t let this lead you to believe that ambience is all, or even principally, what the music is about. The principal quality of these tunes, their defining feature, and the central locus of Lawson’s creative effort, is melody. Read more

  • The Fierce And The Dead – If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe (post-rock)

    The Fierce And The Dead – If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe (post-rock)

    This album contains, but does not start with, the follow up to TFATD’s initial release, Part 1, an EP consisting of a single eighteen minute track called ‘Part 1’. ‘Part 2’ is only a little over five minutes in length, but it does cram a remarkable amount of dramatic incident into that span. Read more

  • Yonks – Yonks Marluk (electronica/ ambient)

    Yonks – Yonks Marluk (electronica/ ambient)

    This is the second release from Yonks, hence the name. What do you mean you don’t know what marluk means? It means ‘two’ in no less than three languages. Admittedly they’re only spoken in Greenland, but still. The guitar plus electronics duo continue to plough their distinctive and highly listenable furrow, with three more tracks… Read more

  • Pirate & Cobie – Pirate & Cobie (indie-rock)

    Pirate & Cobie – Pirate & Cobie (indie-rock)

    Bass, guitar, drums, singing; these are well used ingredients, so for a band to stand out it needs to use them with a bit of imagination. Pirate & Cobie are in indie-rock territory, and that shapes their approach to a degree, but they give the impression of being there because it’s the music they love,… Read more