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Sings
May 31, 2025 in Avant-Garde Jazz

Sings

Patty Waters’ 1966 debut lures you in with fragile jazz ballads - then tears the room apart with a single, harrowing scream-piece. A cult classic in two acts.

Music For Nine Post Cards
May 30, 2025 in Ambient

Music For Nine Post Cards

A gentle, precise ambient record made for a Tokyo art museum. Released in 1982, it moves slowly, breathes quietly and leaves space for the listener to disappear.

Polaroïd / Roman / Photo
May 29, 2025 in Coldwave

Polaroïd / Roman / Photo

In 1985, Ruth released a cold, minimal synth record that quietly became a cult classic. Cool, strange and unmistakably French.

Deceit
May 28, 2025 in Post-Punk

Deceit

In 1981, This Heat released a paranoid masterpiece that sounds like a protest broadcast. Angular, intense and eerily prophetic.

Haha Sound
May 27, 2025 in Experimental

Haha Sound

In 2003, Broadcast released a seminal record that sounds like a woozy blend of psychedelia, pop and experimentalism.

The Race for Space
May 26, 2025 in Electronic

The Race for Space

In 2015, Public Service Broadcasting reimagined the sound of the space race as an epic electronic soundscape. It’s all there - the ambition, the fear, the dead astronauts.

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