58 Hieroglyphic Being The Disco’s Of Imhotep Man we’re into Hieroglyphic Being… the most premium disco. New LP The Disco’s Of Imhotep is about as close to straightforward as he’s got, but it moves around plenty and some of the textures are so wild. Disco’s Of Imhotep feels like something that has been crafted by hand, something that is structured on experimentalism. Dance music can often sound too rigid and controlled; there is a sense that all of these components could as very well fly off in their own direction as much as coexist. It’s the element of conducting it that we really liked. As he explains, “The One who comes in Peace, is with Peace”... that we dig.
55 GØGGS GØGGS An absolutely thrilling slab of garage. GØGGS is the latest musical incarnation of Ty Segall, Charles Mootheart and Chris Shaw (collectively and individually parts of Ex-Cult and Fuzz). It just all comes so easy man... Created in Los Angeles in the middle of the summer of 2015: three years of planning, thirty days of writing, one week of ripping. You can feel the room, you can sense how it felt to be there and that is a pretty astonishing thing to have captured to tape. Ten tracks of antisocial noise and face-melting burners.
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Jherek Bischoff Cistern
Steve Gunn Eyes on the Lines
Some seriously emotional stuff from the mercurially talented Jherek Bischoff. Recorded with a live orchestra, Cistern is the second album by the prodigiously talented musician, collaborator, composer, arranger and producer. Spectacularly (and not always comfortably) cinematic, these modern orchestral recordings showcase Jherek’s unerring ability to pull at the heartstrings. It was recorded in a cistern in Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington, and the album is very much about interacting with the space and most of all the reverb. Make sure to give this one a listen, it’s very highly recommended.
Steve Gunn is a prolific guy, but the progression with Eyes On The Lines (his first with new label partner Matador) is quite brilliant. Laid-back jams, still much space and experimentalism, but it’s his vocals that take the weight of the song. Steve Gunn will doubtless take you on a trip, there are few music makers who can tell stories, lock in grooves and blow your lid with just the wiggle of his fingers... turns out he can do it with his lyrics and vocals too.
54 Tim Hecker Love Streams Another big Drift favourite is Canadian composer Tim Hecker, one of the most important sonic artists making and releasing music today. New album Love Streams, his first record for 4AD, takes its cues from the avant-classical orchestration and extreme electronic processing of his previous full-length - 2013’s Virgins
- but shaped into more melancholic, ultraviolet hues. It was recorded in Iceland (with Jóhann Jóhannsson making the choral arrangements), and with this in mind you can almost see the Northern Lights in front of you as the layers and layers of dense ambience play out. Quite extraordinary.