Hello Friday my old friend. Is this thing on?

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Smackos - (PMCD 001) UFO Onderzoek 1983
Legowelt shared this earlier on this week - it's an album of his recorded in 2007, released in 2010. For some reason the opening track looped and repeated for me as I listened, and I wasn't even mad, such was its chilling beauty. In three words: horror score melancholy.

Hanna Tuulikki - spinnin--tereo
Hanna Tuulikki, together with fellow vocalist Mischa Macpherson, takes a traditional Gaelic spinning song (a work song to break the monotony of spinning wool), 'Oran Snìomhaidh', and stretches it out into long drawn-out utterances, cutting these utterances shorter and shorter as the piece progresses and moving from vowels to words, singing in and out of phase and harmony. Simple repetition drives home this style across two 16-minute sides, the second side slowing from those short phrases back down to lengthy sonorous tones. I've never really heard anything like this before, it's slightly difficult but all the more rewarding because of it. You can read more about the project, which is presented as a visual score, here.

yyu - moomoo vo.
I really liked yyu's charming 'Kiss As We Walk' earlier this year. This is a short collection of sketches, orchestral ideas and touches laid down over quiet birdsong. Brief but lovely.

LOST TRAIL - Without Streetlights / Behind The Mebane Street Void
More deep and vibey ambient sad music! It's my favourite kind. It's got titles like 'Smoke Ran Like Water' and 'The Former Burlington Coffin Company, Maple & Tucker', which suggest une âme solitaire, and one called 'Fuck Off, Ghost', which suggests a sense of humour underneath all that bleak sorrow.

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MssingNo - XE2 (Spooky V.I.P) *PREVIEW*
Only a preview but this sounds like a riveting two-step take on that bundle of glorious perfection that is Mssngno's XE2.

Junior Loves - Birdsong: 3rd-Generation Love-Cry
Deep and vibey, this moves from birdsong (duh) to shoegaze to acid and EBM. My man Storky B shared this one on Soundcloud (he's off on his stag this weekend actually, official hashtag is #cmcstag14) - cheers for the tip.

StewRat - 7
Wicked tune from this US producer. And the very best artwork I’ve seen in some time.

Siobhan Bell - Can You Pay My Bills?
Wow. Brilliant cut-up of this great Destiny’s Child track. Never heard of Siobhan Bell but I will be keeping my eye on her from now.

North Lake - Prism
Wonderfully weird house from Permanent Vacation. Snarling bass, relentless forward motion, a brilliantly bizarre snaking riff.

The SM Corporation - Hammer 86
This is a great reissue/repackagaing of sorts - The SM Corporation's brilliant 80s pop gem 'Hammer', itself a singular take on that decade's sound, is rereleased on Shock World Service and comes with remixes from the incomparable JD Twitch and Great Lakes Mystery, the project of Gareth Averill, son of SMC's Steve Averill. And if you didn't know, the project is the brainchild of Gareth's brother Jon Averill. Labour of love etc. If you go to the SWC Bandcamp you can grab a film score produced by Great Lakes Mystery for Hill Street, a film about skating in Ireland.

Dark0 - Fate EP
He ain't no sweet boy. I love some anthemic trance riffs in pretty much any context, andAmethyst blends such gorgeous arpeggios with stuttering grime kicks and claps. 'Gaia' is on some old HudMo shiz (back when he was good innit), soaring synth melodies underpinned by a cinematic thrust. The whole EP is dope.
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Get at me dog.

All the best,

Aidan