Andrew Chalk – Dioramas [LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop like a jewel slowly spinning

like a jewel slowly spinning on a dial

clarinet and drumsSpecial guest beats on "River Flow Your Face" and "Spring Sky Window" by Edmund Xavier"To Shape a Single Leaf" and "Question D" recorded for Ears Have Ears

Here's to the next 35 years and

a combo which has less to say than ever

Neuter was recorded between 2018 and 2021 and is the culmination of a very distinctive and unmistakable sound Sofie has developed and refined during close to 10 years now

Andrew Chalk – Dioramas [LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop like a jewel slowly spinning"On Andrew Chalks new album for Anarchives, Dioramas, he returns to the art of the miniaturist, after the long form exploration of 2024s Songs Of The Sea. Its an appropriate mode of address given the title each of these fifteen pieces indeed feels like a replica of a specific scene, rendered in miniature. As with much of Chalks music, they set out to explore humble terrain, a thread of melody in slow motion, or a weave of texture, sometimes in aquatic