Review: With his Black Mill Tapes series sewn up, Pye Corner Audio makes the move to soundtrack specialists Death Waltz as they continue to embrace original material alongside their movie reissue modus operandi. Anyone familiar with either label or artist will be on familiar ground here, as Martin Jenkins lays the warbling 80s bombast on good and thick, albeit with a little more extrovert tendencies in the bright and bold melodies compared to the spooky subtleties of some of the other PCA material. "Stars Shine Like Eyes" reaches a dizzying climax of searing lead lines, while "Quasar II" revels in melancholic arpeggios made for the heartbreak ball in the future of thirty years ago.
Review: The Ecstatic label run by Walls pair Sam Willis and Ale Natalizia has really stepped it up this year in terms of scope and intrigue. Both the Daphne Oram reworks and the long form sonic decay from The Field producer Axel Wilner as HANDS suggests a label is happy to remain driven by the esoteric interests of its founders. This latest release is another conceptual curveball which finds Natalizia teaming up with Pye Corner Audio for Intercepts, a split album themed around notions of espionage. Regardless of how much you invest in the conceptual motivations of both artists, fans of Pye Corner Audio and Not Waving are spoilt musically with the latter's side proving particularly dreamlike and intoxicating - "Protect The Revolution" is a notable highlight.
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