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CD Feature/ Portishead: "Third" They're still there and they still matter: The triumph of a band who have never sounded this human before.

CD Feature/ Poolplayers: "Way Below the Surface" Players aligned like metallic dust along the poles of a magnet: Very very silent music, played carefully and in the ...

CD Feature/ Dan Fröberg: "15 Songs (Down at Jinxey´s)" New folk music: We are still listening to physical objects – but no longer to a physical reality.

Random Stabbings 34 May's interesting records subjectively compiled by Eric Saeger.

CD Feature/ Liar's Rosebush: "Circle the Squares" Mindbogglingly complex: The comforting rattle of a thousand different hihats.

CD Feature/ The Duke Spirit: "Neptune" Genuinely edgy alt-rock: A breath of fresh Turkish-cigarette-scented air.

CD Feature/ Jerome Froese: "Shiver me Timbers" A carefully considered shift: Zippo-sounds for your mind's stadium.

CD Feature/ Pridon: "Apnea Eina" Defies the laws of dance music: Texture and timbre instead of drums and linear development.

CD Feature/ OrchestraMaxfieldParrish: "The Silent Breath of Emptiness" Heartbreaking charme: Interrelated tones conglomerating into thick tonal tufts.

The Breeders: "Mountain Battles" A devilish coolness: Yoko Ono meets Nancy Sinatra.

Vital Weekly 628 Frans de Waard presents the experimental releases of the week.

CD Feature/ The Rational Academy: "A Heart against your own" All wounds are healed: Integrates the world of sound art into a band context.

CD Feature/ Keith Kramer: "Casual Dualism" Repeated rhythmical patterns & the art of arrangement: Kramer has not made things easy for himself.

CD Feature/ Dub Syndicate: "Overdubbed" An economical choice for the season: A tour-de-force of all that's good and modern in dub reggae.

Vital Weekly 627 Frans de Waard presents the experimental releases of the week.