Andrew Forell
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Listening, Looking, Reading, ‘Riting. Contributor Dusted Magazine
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“Bits of The Beatles and The Troggs, Deerhunter and Girls, Richman and Dylan swirl into a mix that occasionally dips into bathos but earworms its way back,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7985716... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Golden Apples — Shooting Star (Lame-0)
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The game of “name that bit” is a minor distraction to the enjoyment of the latest Golden Apples album. While Russell Edling is responsible for the writing, singing,...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“Bits of The Beatles and The Troggs, Deerhunter and Girls, Richman and Dylan swirl into a mix that occasionally dips into bathos but earworms its way back,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7985716... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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“Berlin artist Ziūr reckons with notions of home, nationality and identity,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7968616... @andrewforell.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“Berlin artist Ziūr reckons with notions of home, nationality and identity,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7968616... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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“Part fusion, part plunderphonics, The Radiant Radish is, as the title might suggest, a playful subversion of form,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7955027... @hausumountain.bsky.social @andrewforell.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
“Part fusion, part plunderphonics, The Radiant Radish is, as the title might suggest, a playful subversion of form,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7955027... @hausumountain.bsky.social @andrewforell.bsky.social
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“Ping is not, Mumdance stresses, perhaps with tongue slightly lodged in cheek, a genre, more a feeling based on freedom from the tyranny of the kick drum” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7942230... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Various Artists — Ping Vol 1 (Different Circles)
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Different Circles - Ping Devil Meme
As genres mutate and multiply, the etymologists of electronica delve deeper into the arcana of minute differences and emerge...
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September 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“Ping is not, Mumdance stresses, perhaps with tongue slightly lodged in cheek, a genre, more a feeling based on freedom from the tyranny of the kick drum” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7942230... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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“As Mondo Lava the pair use old Casios, live percussion and range of acoustic and digital instruments to create a febrile mix of tropicalia, free jazz, doo-wop and psycho-boogie,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7930566... @andrewforell.bsky.social @hausumountain.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
“As Mondo Lava the pair use old Casios, live percussion and range of acoustic and digital instruments to create a febrile mix of tropicalia, free jazz, doo-wop and psycho-boogie,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7930566... @andrewforell.bsky.social @hausumountain.bsky.social
“Every Intention is that combination of spite, bathos, wit and heart that suffused the best work of The Slow Summits’ musical touchstones,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7918787... @subjangle.bsky.social
The Slow Summits — Every Intention (Subjangle)
The Slow Summits - Louie Louie
Swedish janglers The Slow Summits open their debut album with the rollicking “Dream On” which could almost be the story of the band. The quartet — vocalist/guitarist...
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August 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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“Helene Hauff and F#X (AKA Kris Jakob) produce a hyperkinetic form of minimal techno on their new collaborative album R4,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7896931... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Black Sites — R4 (Tresor)
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Black Sites - 3D
Helene Hauff and F#X (AKA Kris Jakob) produce a hyperkinetic form of minimal techno on their new collaborative album R4. As Black Sites, the German musicians...
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July 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“Helene Hauff and F#X (AKA Kris Jakob) produce a hyperkinetic form of minimal techno on their new collaborative album R4,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7896931... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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“Seek No End is a work that creates space in which the subtle gestures develop significance through repetition and relation,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7894214... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Austin Rockman/The Surrealist — Seek No End (self-released)
The Surrealist & Austin Rockman - Becoming Unaware
Titles like “Decayer” and “Evaporate Everything” suggest that crepuscular claustrophobia will dominate the atmosphere of this collaboration between.....
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July 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“Seek No End is a work that creates space in which the subtle gestures develop significance through repetition and relation,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7894214... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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“Funeral Music turns out to be an afternoon cocktail picnic of a record. Just enough to get you tipsy, not quite enough to have you reaching for the pills,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7853444... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Triathalon — Funeral Music (Lex)
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Grist for romantic misfortune never runs out. New York trio Triathalon — Adam Intrator, Hunter Jayne and Chad Chilton — have been busy at the mill producing 15 ways to leave your...
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June 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“Funeral Music turns out to be an afternoon cocktail picnic of a record. Just enough to get you tipsy, not quite enough to have you reaching for the pills,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7853444... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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“An atmosphere of nowhere towns in dank post-industrial landscapes scarred by decay, cut through by motorways to elsewhere informs Lancashire born Rainy Miller’s new album,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7839855... @andrewforell.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“An atmosphere of nowhere towns in dank post-industrial landscapes scarred by decay, cut through by motorways to elsewhere informs Lancashire born Rainy Miller’s new album,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7839855... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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“Amanda Mur draws on her homeland’s rich folkloric traditions, her classical training, interest in electronics and operatic vocal control to create music that feels both timeless and entirely modern,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7834534... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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May 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“Amanda Mur draws on her homeland’s rich folkloric traditions, her classical training, interest in electronics and operatic vocal control to create music that feels both timeless and entirely modern,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7834534... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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“H.D. Reliquary is the aural equivalent of a Joseph Cornell box. Glimmering passages abut broken remnants and besmeared artefacts in a cabinet of psycho-geographical invocations and dream symbolism,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7821850... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Ben Shirken — H.D. Reliquary (29 Speedway)
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Ben Shirken - Image/Player
New York sound artist Ben Shirken creates fractured scenes for a fragmented world. Repurposing material from his archive — the hard drive reliquary —....
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April 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
“H.D. Reliquary is the aural equivalent of a Joseph Cornell box. Glimmering passages abut broken remnants and besmeared artefacts in a cabinet of psycho-geographical invocations and dream symbolism,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7821850... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Lots of interesting stuff here. I covered recent LPs from Damian Anache, Hieroglyphic Being & Dustin Wong
“This month’s Dust surveys a diverse landscape dotted with jittery dance and placid ambient music, torrid death punk and obliterating doom metal. Let it all bloom, we say.” A new Dust to close the week. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7818226...
Dust Volume 11, Number 8
Ethel Cain
After a long, cold, occasionally snowy spring here in northern New England, we’re finally seeing some signs of life — little blue flowers in the lawn, the first dandelions, the shocking...
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April 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Lots of interesting stuff here. I covered recent LPs from Damian Anache, Hieroglyphic Being & Dustin Wong
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“ Within his template minimal techno, Barker adds billowing ambient passages and intricate drum programming,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7809052... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Barker — Stochastic Drift (Smalltown Supersound)
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Barker - Reframing
For a while, “stochastic terrorism” became a catchphrase used to explain the influence of an illiterate cumquat on his more sinister (or, pedantically,...
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April 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
“ Within his template minimal techno, Barker adds billowing ambient passages and intricate drum programming,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7809052... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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“Kassian’s combination of Balearic beats, microhouse and plangent strings is a fine counterpoint to these intermittently dreary days,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7802824... @andrewforell.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
“Kassian’s combination of Balearic beats, microhouse and plangent strings is a fine counterpoint to these intermittently dreary days,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7802824... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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“A Grand Guignol lark for dancing goths and impenitent imps,” writes Andrew Forell. www.tumblr.com/dustedmagazi... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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Broken English Club — Songs of Love and Decay (Dekmantel)
Broken English Club - Prisoner
On an album dedicated to the late Juan Mendez AKA Silent Servant (also a member of the Sandwell Distric…
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March 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“A Grand Guignol lark for dancing goths and impenitent imps,” writes Andrew Forell. www.tumblr.com/dustedmagazi... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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“If the original influence of trip-hop has been diluted by the echolalia of periodic revivals, soundtrack shortcuts and café friendly chillout compilations, in the right hands it can still be a potent brew,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7782779... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Saffron Bloom — Saffron Bloom (Delicate)
Saffron Bloom - Dirge of the Lonely
After releasing a series of albums & EPs under his first name Iranian American producer Sepehr Alimagham adopts the alias Saffron Bloom for his new self-titled...
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March 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“If the original influence of trip-hop has been diluted by the echolalia of periodic revivals, soundtrack shortcuts and café friendly chillout compilations, in the right hands it can still be a potent brew,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7782779... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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“Kilbourne’s approach asks how far you can reduce club music to its atavistic essence without losing its function and appeal,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7772964...
March 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“Kilbourne’s approach asks how far you can reduce club music to its atavistic essence without losing its function and appeal,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7772964...
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“Whether a metaphor for the persistence of creativity in the face of brutality or simply an oasis of calm in the eye of the storm, the music itself is lovely,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7753033... @andrewforell.bsky.social
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February 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“Whether a metaphor for the persistence of creativity in the face of brutality or simply an oasis of calm in the eye of the storm, the music itself is lovely,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7753033... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Wrote about some of my favorites of the year for Dusted
“Well, that was a clusterfuck of a year,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7722117... @andrewforell.bsky.social
Andrew Forell’s Dusted Year End 2024
Mukqs, Photo by Brett Naucke Well, that was a clusterfuck of a year. I barely have the words and frankly enough has been said about not just 2024 but the augurs for the next four years and beyond. So,...
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January 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Wrote about some of my favorites of the year for Dusted
Wrote about new EPs from Cybotron & Helena Hauff on Tresor, Eazy Peazy by Man/Woman/Chainsaw on Fat Possum & Maloviento by Longabardi + Cecchitelli on LINEimprint
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Dust Volume 10, Number 11
Photo of Alan Licht by Stu Lax One of the oddest, most disturbing developments in recent years is the devaluation of expertise. If a souped up auto complete program can write a screenplay, who needs...
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November 22, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Wrote about new EPs from Cybotron & Helena Hauff on Tresor, Eazy Peazy by Man/Woman/Chainsaw on Fat Possum & Maloviento by Longabardi + Cecchitelli on LINEimprint
Wrote about the latest from Body Metta out now on @hausumountain.bsky.social
“Even when they seem to be spiraling away on individual orbits there is a centrifugal logic that holds everything together,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7677724... @hausumountain.bsky.social @andrewforell.bsky.social
Body Meπa — Prayer in Dub (Hausu Mountain)
Photo by Daniel Efram Body Meπa - Etel Across the surface, guitarists Sasha Frere-Jones and Grey McMurray weave febrile webs. Their interplay catches the ear immediately but it’s the kinetic rhythms...
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November 21, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Wrote about the latest from Body Metta out now on @hausumountain.bsky.social