Hi. I'd rather be dead than call this song 'How I lost your respect'.

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Shredderghost - Golden Cell
Two-part noisey affair from Shredderghost on the excellent Power Moves label. 'Among The Flowers' is built up of drone into plodding repetition into hazy guitar, scuzzed to infinity. 'À Soi-Même' is softer, looped half-riffs, improv around that, forever. Lovely.

metasplice - metasplice
metasplice recently featured on the Hessle show, so they're not ~new~ or anything, I guess, but they're new to me. This album feels like some dark hardware improv, angry shuffles unfurling under thick slabs of drone. Occasional bleeps and whirrs lighten tension or add further terror, depending on your approach to the heavy noise. It's a dense listen, not something to play in the background by any means,

How Hot Is Your Cloud - Spring i
How hot is your Bandcloud. This is a three-part movement, distorted vocals falling over humming drone. Some beats feature, some warped sounds, sirens wail in the distance, and Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator speech adds inspiration. Or horror. I duno. There are political and personal overtones here, worth exploring, no doubt.

Various Artists - Ambient Parks Vol. 2
That same Great Dictator speech was sampled in a track on last year's Ambient Parks compilation, and all of a sudden New Kanada dropped a second volume this week. Artists like Hrdvision, Iron Galaxy, Kevin McPhee and Fairmont express their innermost languidities here, with beautiful results. Ambalance's 'A Dream No Longer (Isolation)' is just sublime, as is Basic Soul Unit's 'Circling Arctic'. My only criticism is that the general vibe is a bit too similar, with few tracks venturing beyond that same palette of glacial synth, at least until the final few tracks. (Also no women, to my knowledge.) That said, there's nothing below par here.

70/|/| K|\|4PP - R A P M I X
Ever heard Carly Simon mixed into Clipse? Well. Check this. It's got some classics, some underrated gems, and it's got 'Made You Look', possibly the best 'Apache' flip there is. And that's a big claim, I know.

Isorinne - 1980
Five tracks that tread the line between ambient haze and evocative melody. Hard to categorise really, not quite night bus, too cheery to be spoopy, it's really really good.

elizabethveldon - Ecce Homo
Some drone for Holy Week. Hopefully we'll have more soon.

Florist - Marine Drive
"Nostalgia for something I never experienced." I know that feeling. All Caps had a solid run last year, with impeccable releases from DJ Guy, Bluntman Deejay and Ekrano. This next release from Florist sounds great from what they've teased so far, 'Think' breaks and all.

Farewell, Forever - Cremation Lily
Cremation Lily aka Zen Zsigo turns in a heart-rending mix/piece for Farewell, Forever. Dive in, drown in your own tears, be reborn in its beauty.

Amanda Feery - Coming in on Loud Weather (for string quartet)
Here is a 12-minute piece of contemporary classical (though I'm not really sure you'd call it that). Fascinating and striking stuff.

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I'll be away for the next two weeks, so it won't be me at the helm for a bit. I trust you'll be nice to the good people standing in, however..

All the best,

Aidan