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Lucy Railton & Kit Downes ~ Subaerial

If you want to grab our attention, record your album in a cathedral in Iceland. We like Iceland – the music, the scenery, the people. When we cash in our dojecoin investments, all the website’s writers will visit the country, revel in the landscape, experience the northern lights and, if finances permit, share a beer. We also like cathedrals, great sites of historical importance and architectural…

Adrian Corker ~ Music for Lock Grooves

Without locked grooves (referred to as lock grooves on this release), our records would end with the grating sound of needle against paper.  Most locked grooves are silent, although many artists have used them to embed sound, most famously The Beatles on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and most memorably for ACL readers, GY!BE’s F♯ A♯ ∞.  (Now you know what the ∞ is for!)  And many artists…

Adrian Corker ~ The Have-Nots OST

Are soundtracks getting better, or are we just enjoying them more?  It’s hard to tell.  Either way, 2016 has been an especially good year for creative scores, the latest example being Adrian Corker‘s The Have-Nots.  Our measuring stick is simple: to succeed, a score must stand on its own, which eliminates many mainstream entries, hampered by repetition, the lack of memorable minor themes, and an…