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Hifi Sean & David McAlmont - Happy Ending - RIYL The Beauty Room

Written by Hifi Sean & David McAlmont Produced & mixed by Hifi Sean Recorded in London on 18th Floor Mixed in Camber Sands Strings conducted & arranged by Dr. Chandru Jois in Bangalore India

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Best of 2023 - Albums

Unbelievable year ... Fallen pop stars are returning, long time not seen artists are turning up in a best possible shape, producers making music under their own names, ... First of all I really enjoyed a few soundtracks this year especially Anthony Willis's Saltburn and Arnaud Rebotini's L'lle Rouge. Surprisingly I listened again on repeat a few DJ mixes too. Danny Tenaglia's new Global Underground was a pure treasure, James Zabiela's home session just made me dance for an hour in the living room, as well as Andy Butler's energetic set did too.

01. Roisin Murphy - Hit Parade - "If Hit Parade isn’t Murphy’s best album, it’s certainly her wildest and weirdest. Nowhere else is the scale of her ambition more evident than on the percussive and atmospheric “Free Will.” Murphy says she doesn’t believe in free will but that you should “just make believe that you can write the play” anyway. It’s yet another indelible statement that couldn’t come from anyone else." - Slant Magazine

02. Rebecca Black - Let Her Burn - "An acceptable stretch of Let Her Burn gives Black a chance to reform a persona she had never had any control over until now. As fundamental a shift as perhaps expected, Black warrants this change of pace but there is something inevitable about how these perspectives are formed and how retaliation to reactionary dogpiling a decade ago comes to the forefront. Working hard and pushing through with this half-hour debut LP is exceptional, with spotty highs and consistently solid mixes that give those electronic undercurrents a beat-worthy working. Destroy Me is a crucial highlight in getting to the core of reinvention but also in engaging with how buoyed Let Her Burn is by how much of an opposition it takes to the early works. Black has let her burn, whatever “her” was. Let Her Burn razes and destroys as much as it can, and it works as a successful, credible debut." - Cult Following

03. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Hana

04. Clark - Sus Dog

05. Everything But The Girl - Fuse

06. Depeche Mode - Memento Mori

07. Mermaidens - Mermaidens

08. Kesha - Gag Order

09. Anna B Savage - in|FLUX - "So as a follow up to A Common Turn, this does feel like an album where, lyrically and thematically, we are dealing with an artist who has battled some of the previous demons, accepted the daily flux of life, and found a way to focus on the moments when life feels most complete. But in a musical context – Anna also seems to have taken that feeling, that love of contradiction, into the songs. At moments explosively ecstatic, at others wrought with emotion – and filled with influences and sounds from areas not explored on the previous LP – the album brings a bunch of disparate sounds and feelings together to create a powerful and impressive whole. Most impressive of all is the fact that, after an album that sent Picky Bastards into a spin for the whole of 2021, Anna has released something as good if not better." - Picky Bastards

10. HMLTD - The Worm

11. JMSN - Soft Spot

12. Orbital - Optical Delusion - "It’s an album of unlikely collaborations. Day One features the operatic talents of Dina Ipavic, while Are You Alive, sung by Lily Wolter of Penelope Isles, floats into moodier, more analog territory. Best of all are The New Abnormal (Golden Girls’ Kinetic turned inside out) and the anti-gammon state of the nation rant of Dirty Rats." - Record Collector

13. Spelling - SPELLLING & The Mystery School

14. Future Utopia - We Were We Still Are

15. CLT DRP - Nothing Clever, Just Feelings

16. Joy Wellboy - The Ones That Got Away

17. Pierre Rousseau - Twenty - Music for Etudes N°20 - Spring Summer 2022

18. Joyce Muniz - Zeitkapsel

19. Emiliana Torrini & The Colorist Orchestra - Racing The Storm

20. Thomas Azier - The Inventory Of Our Desire

21. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres

22. Not Waving - The Place I've Been Missing

23. Restive Plaggona - Ignis

24. Deichkind - Neues Vom Dauerzustand

25. Daughter - Stereo Mind Game

26. Daði Freyr - I Made an Album

27. Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

28. Surgeon - Crash Recoil - "Crash Recoil is probably about as close to a live Surgeon record as we’re ever going to get. Child views producing and performing as two disparate disciplines, which they are, and he goes about each in a very different way. This also means it’s about as close to a traditional pop/rock approach to writing and recording as you’re likely to find from an electronic producer, woodshedding tracks on the road and sharpening them to a diamond sheen. More bands and producers should think of adopting the approach as it clearly can yield stunning results, as evidenced by this glorious offering." - Spectrum Culture

29. Duran Duran - DANSE MACABRE

30. When Saints Go Machine - Rosy

31. Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy

32. Maps - Counter Melodies

33. Laurent Garnier - 33 tours et puis s'en vont

34. Benedikt Frey - Fastlane

35. ANOUK - Deena and Jim

36. Anthony Naples - Orbs - "The New York producer once known for muscular house and techno continues to drift into the ether, channeling ’90s chillout and dub techno into his singular vision." - Pitchfork

37. James Holden - Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities

38. Hifi Sean & David McAlmont - Happy Ending

39. Tirzah - trip9love...???

40. Kelela - Raven

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Albums of 2024

no particular order, but this is what I have been enjoying.... I have vertigo from the glut of music, but at the same time, the freedom from any sense that anyone could possibly ever be definitive in their choices any more is a wonderful thing in its way.

Mystery Tiime – Maudlin Tales of Grief and Love

Utter misery in kitchen sink post-punk pop form from Ayman Rostom aka The Maghreban. This one will really get under your skin. My review.

Isabell Gustafsson-Ny – Rosenhagtorn

Beatifully sparse and wonky abstract folk-classical micro-album that feels very real and very raw. My review...

T. Williams – Raves of Future Past 

Absolutely faultless collection of bangers, which as the title suggests, go round the houses exploring UK bass genres. Comes with comic and action figure too!

NikNak – Ireti

She wanted to make a soundtrack to a "Black Blade Runner" and by god she did it! Real thrill ride of an album. She was on BMTatR in June...

MOMO – Gira 

I'd never come across this now London-based Brazilian guy before but the algorithm flung "Pára" my way, I got completely addicted, then I discovered the video which radiates subtropical heat, then the album and it's been on rotation since. Total pleasure principle stuff.

Gagarin – Komorebi 

Yes another BMTatR subject, and yes we tragically lost Graham this year: he did the pics and interview knowing he was dying, but like the interview his last album is a model of stoicism and how to take joy in the moment despite the worst happening.

Amanda Whiting – The Liminality of Her 

Can't remember how I stumbled on this Welsh jazz harpist, but her music is the epitome of soft music for hard times. Very lovely indeed.

Meemo Comma – Decimation of I

A bleak ambient concept album about Russian retro-scifi, alien infiltration and planetary consciousness? Aw hell yes, and it's Lara Rix-Martin's best yet. Here she is on BMTatR...

Susanna – Meditations on Love

Another artist growing into themselves year by year, with a fantastically strange set of torch songs. I reviewed it here.

Trendafilka – For the Olives

Definitely wasn't expecting to be bowled over by a Balkan choir from New Orleans but there it is!

Xylitol – Anemones

Cosmic retro jungle with some garage and footworking twists? It all feels familiar but Catherine Backhouse does it with such commitment and panache it just fizzles with life.

Nia Archives – Silence Is Loud

It's jungle, it's hardcore, it's indie, it's PROPER POP, and it's glorious. My review here.

A Taut Line – Restoration 

Like a set of haunting short stories or painted vignettes in techno and abstract post-dubstep form, Brit in Tokyo Matt Lyne made his best work yet here.

Rosie Lowe – Lover, Other

Very much more soft music for hard times, but super innovative and stimulating with it, a gorgeous neo-trip hop exploration that I reviewed here.

J Mascis – What Do We Do Now?

Mascis is just an elemental force isn't he? All these years later and he still touches the soul, seemingly effortlessly. My review here...

Deep Fade – Further 

PROPER FUCKING DARK, this. Noisy, bleak, scary goth-industrial-ambient from Amanda Votta and her merry crew - she also made the more abstract/ambient Impermanence this year which is just as dark and good.

Nala Sinephro – Endlessness

More jazz harp! This time blended with modular synth bloops. Album number two, and a significant step up for Sinephro, a total balm for the soul through and through...

Hifi Sean & David McAlmont – Daylight

Of course Sean and David were early BMTatR subjects - and their mature and prolific working relationship continues to fascinate. This is how you do an ALBUM album: the mood accumulates and accumulates then the last two tracks are just a dynamite payoff. And bloody hell they've got a follow-up ready just six months later...

Ka – The Thief Next to Jesus

SHAME on me only discovering Ka following his untimely death, but the Brooklyn rapper is just world class - and his 11th album grapples with religion and society in really complex but completely gripping ways.

Alley Cat – The Widow Project

Like I said in my review: "If the names Pinch, Vex’d, Burial, Digital Mystikz, The Bug mean anything to you, stop reading now and buy or stream this album. Seriously, go. Go get it."

Jowee Omicil – SpirituaL HeaLinG : Bwa KayiMan FreedoM Suite

An absolutely wild spontaneous Haitian revolutionary free jazz ritual. Find out about its genesis in my interview.

Becky Hill – Believe Me Now?

Like the Nia Archives album, this is second generation rave pop made by someone who has the culture in their bones, and it's full of undeniable joyous adrenaline rushes and banger upon banger upon banger. My review here.

Doechii – Alligator Bites Never Heal

Showing that there is still room for the old fashioned "did you see??" moment where it seems like everyone is suddenly talking about an artist at once, Doechii absolutely killed it last month with the one-two punch of her Late Show performance and Tiny Desk concert. A megastar in the making, hopefully.

Heavee – Unleash

Chicago's footworking music continues to mature and grow and this super-rich take on it is up there with the very best.

Juls – Peace & Love

Superstar Afrobeats producer broadening his palette and really getting celebratory with a cast of thousands, proper good-times music. I talked about it with him here.

WHY? – The Well I Fell Into

Grandiose grown up radio pop and soft rock somehow perfectly blended into the quirky indietronica and psychedelic hip hop of Yoni Wolf's roots, amazing stuff. My review.

Jeff Mills – The Trip: Enter the Black Hole

This man's work rate is insane. He made TWO great solo albums this year - the more post-classical / minimalist The Eye Witness (which I reviewed here), and this denser, more electronic intense beast of a sci-fi mind-movie. It is indeed a trip.

Manga St Hilaire & MoreNight – Everything is Under Control

It hasn't been a vintage year for grime albums - though shouts to C4, Jammz and a heavyweight 28-track Polish extravaganza from Miły ATZ - but this album is absolutely world class, Manga showing just how grown up the genre can be, and the production from MoreNight giving it a consistency and great dancefloor undercurrent.

Kayla Painter – Fractures

I've consistently enjoyed the Bristolian's strange and spooky electronics, and I am a sucker for solar system exploration, so I was always going to love this tbh.

The Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes

Absolutely boggling the Reid bros are not just surviving but innovating wildly so many years on. My review.

seo – §eo

I am a massive fanboy for Lagos's Eseomo Mayaki - a genuine eccentric in a world of could-be-AI conformity. This and the two volumes of ASSMIX 5000 EP continued her endlessly prolific creative streak. Meet her in this profile I did for the WIRE.

Ganavya – Daughter of a Temple

Bassist, poet, mystic etc etc etc Ganavya gathered 30 musicians together for a RITUAL, partially in tribute to John and Alice Coltrane and their universal visions and oh wow...

Andreas Werliin, Johan Berthling, and Oren Ambarchi – Ghosted II

You can't go wrong with Ambarchi, and just as on the first Ghosted these are some truly outstanding percussiony, geometrical jazz hypno-jams

Jaz Karis – Safe Flight

She's previously collabbed with Katy B and she's on the Juls album above duetting with Ghetts so you know JK is going to be great right? This is UK soul in rude health, in particular benefiting from a dose of amapiano influence which I discussed here...

LL COOL J – The Force

Oh HELL yes you can call it a comeback. And hell yes it is as good as everyone says - both Q Tip's giddily inventive production and LL's flows that outclass all the top ranking guests. My review.

μ-Ziq – Grush

Definitely a good year for Planet Mu with the Meemo Comma, Xylitol and this - label boss Mike Paradinas on absolutely top whimsical, melodic, grooving form.

Jeremy Sylvester – Underground Hero Album

BANGERS BANGERS BANGERS - a good parallel for the T Williams album in getting to the very bone marrow of UK underground sound, and doing it with relentless rave energy. Thanks so much to Chris and Hue of Skill Issue for flagging this up as I had missed it!

Five Green Moons – Moon 1 

There's definitely a running theme in these albums of artists maturing - and certainly this album of digital dub / 80s dancehall done in a spooky creatures of the English hedgerows stylee is up there with Justin Robertson's very best work. He was on BMTatR too, and we got fantastically abstract.

Ryuichi Sakamoto – Opus

A painful listen this - literally: you can hear Sakamoto's laboured breathing as he plays piano on this posthumously-released album - but a beautiful one. I wrote about his enduring relationship with the instrument here.

Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft

She may not get the hype that Taylor / Charli / Chappell do in 2024, but artistically Billie E consistently leaves them all in the shade. To have a pop star this big, and this subtly - but intensely - subversive, and also making deep and lush music, is a great thing.

James Hardway - El Camino Duro

Yes we did HIM for BMTatR too - and there's more to come because he's got such an insane wealth of stories. But Harrow NEVER rests on his laurels - this was just one of an album every month in 2024 to mark him turning 60. Some were space dub, some were ambient, but all were great and this jazz, breaks and bass one is a masterpiece.

The Cure – Songs of a Lost World

Given that the last time they were this good they were my favourite band in the world, and I was 16 and full of raging hormones and sad dreams, this return to form hit really hard. My review.

Underworld – Strawberry Hotel

Another band maturing brilliantly, this feels like they're really enjoying just being themselves: just like the lovely sleeve art, it is full of colour and interest in the living detail of things.

Arooj Aftab – Night Reign

More soft music for hard times, more jazz harp, and a whole lot of - as AA describes them - "sad, sexy songs". Music for staring out of windows to, in the best possible way.

Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

Beautifully sung of course, but this album is really about texture and arrangement, it's one to sink deep into and float away...

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Frances McKee, Hifi Sean, Duglas Stewart and Norman Blake in Bellshill 1984.

Photo by Kim Mclachlan.

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Hifi Sean & David McAlmont -Daylight

HiFi Sean & David McAlmont announce their new album “DAYLIGHT” which comes out on Aug 16th 2024 through Plastique Recordings. The album will be released on LP / CD / DL. A deluxe Ltd 'Neon Orange' Vinyl Edition has a free orange flexi-disc with the track 'Orange Sunshine' , a signed art print , and a downloadable lyric book. It follows their acclaimed 2023 debut 'Happy Ending'. The exhilarating journey of twelve songs on 'DAYLIGHT' celebrates, expresses and explores the colours and feel of summer. It will be the first of two albums with the nocturnal sister album 'TWILIGHT' released Valentines Day Feb.14th 2025. McHifi are taking you on a summertime / wintertime journey.

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#FREEDOWNLOADS #FREEPROMO #RADIOCHART Big Love Radio Show – October 2023 – Art Of Tones Big Mix BIG LOVE RADIO SHOW – OCT 2023 HOUR 1 1. The Shapeshifters – Giving Me Something Better (Aeroplane Remix) – Glitterbox 2. Miguel Migs feat Martin Luther – Back Tonight (Lovebirds Disco Sketch Mix) – Soulfuric Deep 3. Benny Musa – Save My Life - MOS 4. Illyus & Barrientos feat Phebe Edwards – Wait – Big Love 5. Art Of Tones & Inaya Day – Give My Love - Glitterbox 6. AC Soul Symphony – Windy City – Z Records 7. Laroye – First Sight (feat Javonntte) – Freerange 8. Jéroboam – Turn Down The Lights – Space Grapes 9. Roy Ayers – Evolution (Art Of Tones Rework) - White 10. Urban Blues Project presents Mother of Pearl featuring Pearl Mae - Your Heaven (I Can Feel It) (UBP Classic Mix) – Soulfuric 11. Urban Blues Project presents Mother of Pearl featuring Pearl Mae - Your Heaven (I Can Feel It) (Micky More & Andy T Remix) – Soulfuric 12. Roach Motel – The Night (Fred Everything Unreleased Tribute Mix) – Faith 13. Dam Swindle – Soul’s Lament – Heist Recordings 14. Shakedown & Bootsy Colllins - Funky And You Know It (Shakedown Work That Mother Extended Mix) – Glitterbox 15. Flush – Bateau Blanc (Kid Créme Remix) – Glitterbox 16. Bushwacka – Sunday School – Classic Music HOUR 2 The Big Mix – Art Of Tones 1. Sauce81 - Natural Thing - Eglo 2. Souleance - La Fête - Heavenly Sweetness 3. Brother Julian - Kay Watt Edit - Disco Mind 4. Underdog Edits - What Cha Doin - Underdog Edits 5. Ava Cherry - You Never Loved Me (The Patchouli Brothers Edit) 6. Riva Starr - How It Feels - Glitterbox 7. Rose Cornelius - Here (Art Of Tones Reedit) 8. Art Of Tones Feat Inaya Day - Give My Love (Piano Dub) - Glitterbox 9. Patrick Cowley - Primitive World (Hifi Sean Bonus Beats Remix) - Kookoo 10. Donna Washington - First Things First (Art Of Tones Rework) 11. Jeroboam - Turn Down The Lights - Space Grapes 12. 1Major Lee Vincente - Let Me Take You Higher (The Whiskey Barons Nitetime Rework) - Whiskey Barons 13. Javi Frias - Keep Playin - Street Edits 14. Ferry Ultra - Rising Up (Art Of Tones Extended Mix) 15. Detroit Swindle - Were You Ready For That (DS Rework) - Schnitzel Cuts 005 16. Bim Marx And Master Khan - Dont Fall In Love - Stillove4Music Скачать: https://ift.tt/kNUsvcC https://ift.tt/s3jkUTb

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STEELYARD KELHAM/SHEFFIELD

Join me for the first of five special events that I’ll be hosting at the wonderful Steelyard Kelham in Sheffield. The first Graeme Park & Friends event will see me joined by Hifi Sean, Seamus Haji and Terry Farley for a Christmas Special.

More detailed and ticket information from Skiddle.

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UNDER THE RADAR: New Album - HiFi Sean & David McAlmont – "DAYLIGHT", released on August 16, 2024.

UNDER THE RADAR: New Album – HiFi Sean & David McAlmont – “DAYLIGHT”, released on August 16, 2024. “The former Soup Dragons frontman Sean Dickson and the onetime Bernard Butler collaborator David McAlmont release their second album of homemade house bangers.” .brooklyn vegan

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Cobwebs And Strange Radio Show #367

Cobwebs And Strange Radio Show  Mondays 12 noon EST , 5pm BST , 9am PDT - COBWEBS AND STRANGE #367 - Cozy Powell - Dance With The Devil (single, 1973) - Boney M - Rasputin (Nightlight To Venus, 1978) - Primal Scream - Love Insurrection (Come Ahead, 2024)* - Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up (Parts 1 & 2) (Tighten Up, 1968) - KEELEY - Inga Hauser (Beautiful Mysterious, 2024)* keeleyband.bandcamp.com / thekeeleychronicles.wordpress.com - Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 - Chelsea Morning (Stillness, 1970) - TUNS - Back Among Friends (TUNS, 2016) - NRBQ - Me And The Boys (Tiddlywinks, 1980) - The Armoires - Music And Animals (Music And Animals, 2024)* - sparkle*jets u.k. - Love Burn (Box Of Letters, 2024)* bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com - Jellyfish - The King Is Half Undressed (Bellybutton, 1990) - Darren Doherty - extraterrestrials (darksides EP, 2024)* - Cam’ron - Hey Ma (Dancing With Angels, 2024)* beautyinchaos.bandcamp.com - A Shoreline Dream - Hollow Crown (Whitelined, 2024)* ashorelinedream.bandcamp.com - Hifi Sean & David McAlmont - Living Things (DAYLIGHT, 2024)* plastiquerecordings.bandcamp.com - Neil Young - Hold On To Your Love (Trans, 1982) - The Masonics - You’re Gonna Live Life Sad (I Got It All EP, 2024)* spinoutnuggets.bandcamp.com - The Link Quartet - Green Puma (single, 2024)* spinoutnuggets.bandcamp.com - The Storey Sisters - Bad Motorcycle (single, 1959) - Sweet Honey in the Rock - Sweet Honey in the Rock (Sweet Honey in the Rock, 1976) - Bob Newhart "Dial An Atheist" Stand-Up Skit (unreleased, 1969) - Tomcraft - Loneliness (single, 2002) - Réamann - Heaven Is Beyond Your Mind (Dilettante in flagrante (Putting out the bins in a kimono),  2024)* reamann1.bandcamp.com Read the full article

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HiFi Sean & David McAlmont Announce New Music & Leeds Date

HiFi Sean & David McAlmont are pleased to announce their new album Daylight which comes out on the first day of summer on June 20th 2024 through Plastique Recordings. The album will be released on LP / CD / DL. To celebrate this release, the pair will perform some shows in November of this year, including a date at the Oporto in Leeds on November 14th.