Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage (Rvng Intl.)
Publications have lost it for this thing. I share their infatuation. Reassemblage is a lullaby delivered through 98-degree goo, a haze of indistinct and comforting memories, accomplished with sonic precision rather than grainy reverb.
Tarkovsky Quartet - Nuit Blanche (ECM)
Couturier's group with Lechner amazes me again with a beautiful, contemplative exploration of melody and strained emotion. I would love to hear this group live.
Kassel Jaeger & Jim O'Rourke - Wakes on Cerulean (Editions Mego)
Another one of these Emego sleepers, Wakes on Cerulean quietly unfolds and drifts from a lazy river out into the ocean.
Kangding Ray - Hyper Opal Mantis (Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Kangding Ray goes off the rave deep end. Epsilon has the psytrance bass. Somebody get this man to the desert.
Sigha - Metabolism (Token)
Kangding Ray + Sigha = no more of this crunchy underproduced house for 2017. Ceramics is the bomb.