Summer of Synth // A retrospective view

From June through to August we released a series of albums that were unconnected other by the hash tag #SummerOfSynth. 

In this news missive we revisit those releases with the hope that they are discovered by some folks who may have missed them the first time round.

Incentive // Incentive

Incentive's second self-titled album is also available digitally from circle with a dot, here: incentive.bandcamp.com/album/incentive-2021 Credits released September 17, 2021 Incentive - production, vocals, synthesizer, mixing Chase Jackson - master engineer Nice Flaws & Incentive - album art

Review of Alan Morse Davies – Hymns

Enlightened review from Yeah I know It Sucks

Yeah I Know It Sucks

Artist: Alan Morse Davies
Title: Hymns
Keywords: experimental ambient art progressive United Kingdom
Label: Submarine Broadcasting Company

I couldn’t sleep and pretty much bored of counting sheep. Luckily Alan Morse Davies popped up at the right moment with a solution: counting goats. As I counted the goats Alan Morse Davies brought a whole bunch of public domain records to compliment the dream world that I had finally reached. The goats had paraded by and jumped over a random fence quite successfully and now I was in a deep sleep enjoying the music selection of the past as presented, mixed and breath new life into it by Alan Morse Davies.

In my dream he stood behind a deejay desk, but instead of mixing and matching the usual beat orientated stompers into each other, he would spin the historic round sound of forgotten history, glueing them gradually like a collage of ghosts…

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GOATS ‘Far Out’ Review from Monolith Cocktail

Monolith Cocktail Blog

Reviews Column: Dominic Valvona


Back after a short hiatus, my eclectic spread of recommendations and reviews features, as ever, a bumper edition of recent releases. There’s a suitably seasonal solo album from a Beach Boys imbued Mike Gale that wallows in the scorching rays, called Summer Deluxe; some live action from the Ottoman/Edwardian imbued period fusion of Arab and English music hall Brickwork Lizards, who’s new EP features a quartet of live recorded tracks from the St. Giles sessions; there’s a trippy psych peregrination hard sell from the Submarine Broadcasting Company in the form of a GOATS (not that one, this is another group entirely) cassette tape called Far Out; the latest beautifully, if despondently, articulated songbook from Oliver Cherer, I FeelNothing Most Days; the musical suite in all its glory from Bethany Stenning’s multimedia conceptual art film The Human Project, released via…

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Review of Cousin Silas and Pendro ‘The Audio Scullery’

Submariner-in-Chief Rob reviews the recent work from Cousin Silas and Pendro: The Audio Scullery is the latest collaboration between Cousin Silas and Pendro - an interesting joint venture on several fronts, not least perhaps the perceived difference in styles: Cousin Silas, a musician I tend to think of as melodic and accessible, and Pendro, who …