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Cloud Nothings: Last Building Burning

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On October 19, 2018, “Carpark” label released “Last Building Burning”, the fifth Cloud Nothings studio album. It was recorded in 2018, at “Sonic Ranch” in Tornillo, Texas, and was produced by Randall Dunn.

Personnel:

  • Dylan Baldi – lead and backing vocals, guitar
  • Chris Brown – guitar, backing vocals
  • T.J. Duke – bass, backing vocals
  • Jayson Gerycz – drums
  • Randall Dunn – mixing
  • Jason Ward – mastering
  • Rob Carmichael – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Dylan Baldi.

  1. On An Edge
  2. Leave Him Now
  3. In Shame
  4. Offer An End
  5. The Echo of the World
  6. Dissolution
  7. So Right So Clean
  8. Another Way of Life

Algiers: The Underside Of Power

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On June 23, 2017, “Matador” label released “The Underside of Power”, the second Algiers studio album. It was recorded June – October 2016, at “Argot Studio”, “Strange Weather” and “Walker Studios”, “Figure 8” in New York, “Goat Farm” in Atlanta, “Real World” in Bath, “Rex Studios” in London, and was produced by Adrian Utley and Ali Chant.

Personnel:

  • Franklin James Fisher – vocals, cello, double bass, drum programming, guitar, keyboards, percussion, piano, sampling, synthesizer, tambourine, Wurlitzer
  • Lee Tesche – cymbals, guitar, harmonium, loop, music box, percussion, prepared guitar, prepared piano, saxophone, synthesizer, backing vocals
  • Ryan Mahan – bass, drum programming, guitar, baritone guitar, sampling, synthesizer, backing vocals
  • Matt Tong – chimes, drones, drums, glockenspiel, guitar, percussion, backing vocals
  • Adrian Utley – drum machine, guitar, Moog bass, synthesizer
  • Ali Chant – guitar, backing vocals
  • Macks Faulkron – guitar, percussion, engineer
  • Ashiya Eastwood – backing vocals
  • Jessica Upton Crowe – backing vocals
  • Travis Ono – backing vocals
  • Alex Weston – engineer
  • Ben Greenberg – engineer, additional production
  • Chris Kyles – engineer
  • Oli Jacobs – engineer
  • Patrick Phillips – engineer
  • Paul Reust – engineer
  • Randall Dunn – mixing
  • Will Smith – mixing assistant
  • Jason Ward – mastering

Track listing:

  1. Walk Like a Panther
  2. Cry of the Martyrs
  3. The Underside of Power
  4. Death March
  5. A Murmur A Sign
  6. Mme Rieux
  7. Cleveland
  8. Animals
  9. Plague Years
  10. Hymn for and Average Man
  11. Bury Me Standing
  12. The Cycle/The Spiral: Time to Go Down Slowly

Anna Von Hausswolff: Dead Magic

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On March 2, 2018, “City Slang” label released “Dead Magic”, the fourth Anna von Hausswolff studio album. It was recorded in 2017, and was produced by Randall Dunn.

Personnel:

  • Anna von Hausswolff – vocals, pipe organ, Mellotron, design, layout, inner sleeve drawing
  • Karl Vento – guitar
  • Joel Fabiansson – guitar
  • Randall Dunn – Mellotron, Korg MS-20, sound designer, mixing
  • Filip Leyman – synthesizer
  • David Sabel – bass guitar
  • Ulrik Ording – drums
  • Shahzad Ismaily – percussion
  • Gyda Valtysdottir – strings
  • Úlfur Hansson – string arrangements
  • Jason Ward – mastering
  • Magnus Andersson – layout
  • Maria von Hausswolff – cover photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Anna von Hausswolff.

  1. The Truth, the Glow, the Fall
  2. The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra
  3. Ugly and Vengeful
  4. The Marble Eye
  5. Källans återuppståndelse

Kayo Dot: Blue Lambency Downward

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On May 6, 2008, “Hydra Head Records” label released “Blue Lambency Downward”, the third Kayo Dot studio album. It was recorded in 2008, and was produced by Randal Dunn.

Personnel:

  • Toby Driver – voice, acoustic, electric, 12-string and baritone guitars, bass guitars, clarinet, piano, organ, gamelan, analog synth, laptop mellotron, artwork
  • Mia Matsumiya – voice, violin, mellotron, synth bass
  • Charlie Zeleny – drums
  • Skerik – tenor and baritone sax, vibraphone
  • Hans Teuber – soprano and bass clarinets, alto sax, flute
  • Dave Abramson – gamelan, additional percussion
  • B.R.A.D. – additional vocals
  • Randall Dunn – sound effects, synth design, recording, mixing
  • Mell Detmer – mastering
  • Heung Heung Ching – artwork
  • James O’Mara – layout

Track listing:

All tracks by Toby Driver.

  1. Blue Lambency Download
  2. Clelia Walking
  3. Right Hand Is the One I Want
  4. The Sow Submits
  5. The Awkward Wind Wheel
  6. The Useless Ladder
  7. Symmetrical Arizona

Algiers: There Is No Year

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On January 17, 2020, “Matador” label released “There Is No Year”, the third Algiers studio album. It was recorded April – May 2019, at “Figure 8”, “Strange Weather”, “Studio E” in New York, and was produced by Randall Dunn and Ben Greenberg.

Personnel:

  • Franklin James Fisher – vocals, keyboards
  • Lee Tesche – guitar
  • Ryan Mahan – bass
  • Matt Tong – drums
  • Randall Dunn – Korg MS-20, Modal 001, Ensoniq ESQ-1, modular synth, percussion, mixing, additional programming, sound design
  • Ben Greenberg – MPC 2000, additional programming
  • Skerik (Eric Walton) – saxophone
  • Kyle Kidd – additional vocals
  • La Toya Kent – additional vocals
  • Lou the Dog – vocal sounds
  • Randall Dunn – mixing
  • Garrett DeBlock – mixing assistant
  • Jason Ward – mastering
  • Farbod Kokabi – art direction, design

Track listing:

All tracks by Franklin James Fisher, Lee Tesche, Ryan Mahan and Matt Tong.

  1. There Is No Year
  2. Dispossession
  3. Hour of the Furnaces
  4. Losing is Ours
  5. Unoccupied
  6. Chaka
  7. Wait for the Sound
  8. Repeating Night
  9. We Can’t Be Found