In a vanitas painting, life is captured in ephemera. Popular with Dutch Baroque painters during the 16th and 17th centuries, the style used the still-life format to comment on the frivolity of earthly possessions. Artworks showcased scattered — and for the time, pretty mundane — stuff: a lute, a conch shell, a half-drunk glass of wine. The old masters didn’t include descriptions of why each item mattered or what historical memory they were meant to evoke. But they rendered them in vivid detail nonetheless.
The French producer Malibu, whose debut album Vanities draws its name from the vanitas movement, imbues her New Age-inflected ambient with a similarly sharp eye for the totemic. Past records, like 2024’s Essential Mixtape…
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…remastered and restored for its 40th anniversary, including five previously unreleased bonus tracks sourced directly from the original 1986 recording sessions.
Dan Barrett, also known for the dark ambient project Worms of the Earth, runs 
Three hours of music about water is an audacious proposition. But not, perhaps, for Slovak label Mappa, which for the past decade has made a habit of asking listeners to slow down and pay attention, releasing records that move between field recording, electronics, and idiosyncratic folk. 
Michigan space rock duo 
When two paths to ecstasy unexpectedly converged in the middle of the Mediterranean, 
As a common element of science fiction stories, transmissions from space often spell doom for recipients on Earth. The recent streaming series Pluribus is an example of this plot, with an RNA sequence communicated through a radio signal from space. Once replicated, it leads to a virus that creates a hive mind among humans and resulting chaos and breakdowns. The Sirens, the new album from Animal Collective’s 
His profile elevated for the world to see and hear as Brian Eno’s creative partner on 
…Now teaming up with the pastoral synthesist Dorian Concept, 
…features seven previously unreleased bonus tracks from the same period, as well as a comprehensive selection of remixes from artists like Max Cooper, Robot Koch, and Aparde.
Future modal jazz dub, heard thru a Y2K lens by legendary blowers Pharaoh Sanders & Graham Haynes, and diffused in Bill Laswell’s illbient dub style & pattern. A slept-on, cross-generational ace sure to pique interest FFO Jon Hassell to Talvin Singh, Lászlo Hortobágyi to Material.
This unusual pairing of two veterans from different genres is a welcome reminder that musicianship speaks a common language regardless of categorical metadata. 
For almost a decade now, South London artist