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Jessie Ware - Tough Love I´ve been anticipating this record since the last seconds of Ware´s debut album Devotion rang out. Not only because I loved it, but because I was pretty excited in which direction she would go in the future. So slowly, and with many previews, teases and candied bits, Tough Love emerged.  Hearing the title track and opener, I knew that great things were in store. Here she sings in a higher pitch and still the vigor of her voice shines through. With the next single “Say You Love Me” the mood was different from the bass heavy and electronic beats we´re used to in her music. Acoustic guitar, and a melody changing fluently between being a ballad and a hymnal. This is Jessie´s slowest moment yet and even better the quiet explosions of her crescendo fits the plot. The only gripe I felt was the gospel choir, which seems a little anticlimactic in comparison to Jessie´s yearning voice.  Jessie Ware-"Tough Love" from BRTHR on Vimeo . In general T...

Auburn Lull - Hiber Revisiting my heroes from the past, I sat down and listened to Begin Civil Twilight . Immediately I remembered the pain of getting a copy of this album and the whole catalogue from Auburn Lull. Living in Germany I could not mail-order those records from Darla, the record label, because I didn´t have a credit card. So I took to Amazon and ordered… and waited. After about two months I could say it, “I own everything from Auburn Lull” and none of the CD cases were intact. Fuck you, postage system from six years earlier!  Aside from this little anecdote, I remembered a quit and contemplative nature, which only this kinds of music could give me. I never thought about it as ambient or shoegaze, more like soundscape artists that happened to have singing included. If there is any time for their music it must be fall, swaying synths like fog rising or an early setting of the sun. Auburn Lull were pure distance for me, a taste of spiritual isolation from e...

Rustie - Green Language Being an electronic music producer was never a easy thing. In the past you were held in the background and fame was as far a dream as releasing your own album. In recent years this has changed and the producers share the spotlight with the artists they help create and define. Having their own work standing singularly for purchase and reception is also a thing of possibility. But still, you got to have something to say when you step out into the light and want your voice to be heard.  In this matter, Rustie isn´t the most distinguished of the lot. His 2011 efford Glass Swords was a nice listen, many ideas and heavy beats convincing the idea of an artist to emerge and be part of this scene. However with Green Language there is the feeling of Rustie not knowing what exactly he wants to say. His music for the most part is at its best when it is frantic, fast and sharp. Best example here “Raptor”, full of energy and after four minutes and two tracks of i...