Issue 48a / 20 December 2024

Moonbuilding Weekly's Albums Of The Year bumper edition... includes bonus Compilations Of The Year countdown...

Dec 20, 2024

Here we go then. This is almost the very last Moonbuilding Weekly of 2024, and it’s our Albums Of The Year special. I say almost because in an hour your inbox will also be home to our Books Of The Year special too. I thought it’d all fit in one email, nope. I mean it would, but there’s so much of it you’d be scrolling forever!

As you can hear in the playlist double dose below, it’s been another incredible year for music. With so many great releases you get not only our Top 20 Albums Of The Year, but there’s also a highly commended list too. I hope you approve of our choices. It wasn’t easy. I’ve opened up a chat if you’d like to have your say. Look forward to hearing what you think.

Righto, no time to waste, I’ll see you at 11am with the Books Of The Year chart then, oh, and there’s a ghost of Christmas past in that mailout I think you’re going to like.

Neil Mason, editor
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1- Loula Yorke ‘Volta’ (Truxalis)

From the moment ‘Volta’ was released in January, it felt like it was going to be the album to beat this year. Loula Yorke has had the most incredible 2024, so much so she features twice in our rundown. On top of that, her monthly mixtapes, which launched in May, have only compounded her status as scorching-hot musical stuff. I’m delighted to say that the inaugural Moonbuilding Weekly Album Of The Year gong goes to a truly deserving winner in the shape of Loula Yorke. Can’t wait to see what she gets up to in 2025…

We said: “What Loula Yorke does is very special indeed. Everything is precisely worked out over sustained periods of composition before finally the piece can be recorded live, no editing, no reconstruction, just one take of her unique vision. You get the feeling that ‘Volta’ is just the beginning. Let’s watch her fly.”

Read our full review and interview in Issue 2, 26 January, here

2- Polypores ‘There Are Other Worlds’ (Castles In Space)

Following his appearance on the cover of Moonbuilding 5, the print edition (incredibly not sold out, can’t understand it, buy it here), Stephen James Buckley has gone from strength to strength. ‘There Are Other Worlds’ is right up there with the classic CiS releases, ‘Flora’ and ‘Azure’, which is big talk I know, but he just gets better and better. He finished this year with a cassette outing on the US label Aural Canyon, which I reviewed in last week’s issue (here), saying that I felt he was on the brink of a new phase. Well, bring it on. I think 2025 is going to be very interesting Polypores-wise.

We said: “For this release, Stephen talks about his ‘unmanageable imagination’ and how he became ‘hyperfixed’ on the idea of alternate reality games and how through those a person can experience ‘a degree of brain-change’ and how we can all experience other worlds. What if these portals could be anywhere, ‘What if I followed a magpie down a wormhole that existed in a patch of dandelions?’ he asks. You know, there aren’t many artists who create worlds this compelling around themselves. The Ghost Box and Clay Pipe universes do it, but Stephen is out on his own, he is a unique talent. A true artist.”

Read our review in Issue 35, 20 September here

3- Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan ‘Your Community Hub’ (Castles In Space)

The mighty WRNTDP machine keeps on rolling on its seemingly unstoppable journey. While other end of year lists may have Gordon Chapman-Fox’s fifth long-player sitting in the big numbers, I can’t see how it’s possible that this record can be anything other than Top Three. Oh and look out next year for a Gordon album under his own name on the new CiS Lunar Module CD imprint. The series has quite a line up in store.

We said: “‘Your Community Hub’ benefits from being turned up loud. The production here seems to have cranked up a notch. ‘Pedestrian Shopping Deck’ has such a deep bass growl, like a heartbeat, or a clock counting down, that it is worth writing home about, while the room-shaking bass rumble of ‘Summer All Year Round’, is absolutely epic. It grows with the track, as if it’s alive, and joyously it is allowed room all of its own for the closing 30 seconds, which is one of those moments that makes you want to stand up and cheer.”

Read our full review and interview in Issue 19a, 24 May, here

4- Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman ‘Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On’ (Clay Pipe)

The first of two Top 10 placings for Clay Pipe, which if we had a prize for Label Of Year would be winging its way to Frances Castles’ wonderful outfit this year. Clay Pipe is by no means prolific, but this year’s offerings have not missed a beat – Garden Gate’s ‘Magic Lantern’, Vic Mars’ ‘Bannau Brycheiniog’, David Boulter’s ‘St Anns’ (more of which shortly), this, an excellent mini CD from Frances’ The Hardy Tree as well as a third installment of the ‘Stagdale’ graphic short story/three track EP. ‘Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On’ is perhaps the record we’ve listened to the most this year, it’s mix of dancey electronics and folk-fuelled piano shouldn’t really work, but boy do they.

We said: “Everything feels bright and breezy, Balearic almost, which isn’t something you expect from Clay Pipe. The beautiful thing about this record is that great as Tommy Perman’s grooves are, Andrew Wasylyk’s piano is more than up to matching it. It’s a real yin and yang, where electronic meets acoustic and you’re not sure which bit you like best because they meet so perfectly.”

Read our review in Issue 32, 30 August, here

5- Kayla Painter ‘Fractures’

Kayla took the release of her debut album into her own hands and went full DIY, for which we salute her. Musically, she picks up on the space-y themes that served her so well on ‘Infinite You’. Packed with rich dancefloor beats and drifty universe vibes, ‘Fractures’ took us on a voyage into the solar system alongside the launch of Europa Clipper as it headed for a good look at Jupiter's moons. It’s also worth noting that there was a second instalment of her brilliant ‘Ambient Owl Core’ series this year, which is always worth writing home about.

We said: “When Kayla Painter released the excellent ‘Infinite You’, she was careful to call an “extended EP” perhaps in order to keep her powder dry for this, her debut album proper. That “extended EP” was eight tracks so if anything it was a double EP or a mini album maybe. ‘Fractures’ has eight tracks too and she says that’s an album. With the sort of sky-high quality Kayla serves up, she can call whatever she wants whatever she likes.”

Read our review in Issue 38, 11 October here

6- David Boulter ‘St Ann’s’ (Clay Pipe)

The second of Clay Pipe’s Top 10 appearances comes from Tindersticks’ keyboard player David Boulter who recalls his formative years growing up on a Nottingham council estate with ‘St Anns’. The rundown estate was entirely demolished in the late-60s and replaced with all-new homes for it residents. David’s family moved back when he was six to find their new house had two toilets, a bathroom and central heating. Mind blown. This is an emotionally charged record of great beauty, and one that has lingered on our turntable well after release.

We said: “There are so many stories contained in the record, of inner cities and their renewal in the 60s and 70s for sure, but most importantly it’s a record full of deeply personal memories. Many of the tracks named after the streets David wandered as he grew up. You can hear all of this in every last note of this beautiful record. With ‘St Ann’s’ David Boulter once again mines a rich seam, one that runs through his body of work and, we hope, will continue to do so as he reveals further installments of the soundtrack to his life.”

Read our full review and interview in Issue 21a, 7 June, here

7- Seagoth ‘How to Stay Wide Awake’ (Bytes)

Liverpool-based Georgia Ochoa really stunned with the best synthpop album we heard all year. Made entirely in her bedroom, you don’t get more DIY than this. But feel the quality. Bytes has had a pretty incredible year with some staggeringly good offerings, that Georgia pipped the likes of Damien Baxter, Glok/Timothy Clerkin and Minotaur Shock to end up in our Top 10 speaks absolute volumes about her work and about this cracking label.

We said: “An album that is chock full of delicious three-minute synthpop songs, you know, like they used to make in the old days. Opener ‘Eternity’ with its clattering drums, rumbling bass and soaring guitar solo is the sort of thing you could imagine getting a rousing intro from Janice Long on ‘Top Of The Pops’ back in the mists. It has a sound that resonates – warm, rich melodies, guitars packed with shimmery reverb. And it has a funk to it, kind of reminds me of Lonelady at her most poppy. This is cracking stuff.”

Read our review in Issue 13, 12 April, here

8- Cate Brooks ‘Prismatics’ (Belbury Music)

While it’s only been out for a couple of weeks, this 80s-fuelled belter from the almighty Cate Brooks is one of those records that you’ll be returning to time and again, not just this year but for years to come. The warmth of the tunes and the good humour on display show just how vital Cate remains. Ignore her and this fine work at your peril.

We said: “‘Prismatics’ is a wonderful record, so well observed and perfectly executed. It’s such a now sound too. It’s not a million miles from what Warrington-Runcorn is doing with his palette. This is Cate Brooks though, I always feel the enigmatic line gives her work a little extra umph. This has umph.”

Read our review in Issue 47, 13 December, here

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9- Field Lines Cartographer ‘Portable Reality Generator’ (DiN)

A Top 10 Albums Of The Year list wouldn’t be complete without an entry from a) Mark Burford’s Field Lines Cartographer and b) something released on Ian Boddy’s DiN label. Here we get both. This year saw Ian very much building on last year’s embracing of the new school of modular synthesists by releasing this incredible full-length from FLC. I seem to be saying it a lot, but Mark is another artist who just gets better and better. Oh and DiN-wise, look out next year for a Loula Yorke long-playing debut on the label. Cannot wait for that.

We said: “‘Portable Reality Generator’ is a beautifully paced record. It feels like it comes at you in movements. The first two tracks, ‘The Sun In Splendour’ and ‘Scattered Light’, are the prologue, two very gentle burbling tracks that slowly guide you into the record. The three tracks in the middle form the centrepiece that spread out over nearly 45 minutes. There are few artists who can hold the attention like Mark Burford. This is a release that clocks in at an impressive 70 minutes, not one of them wasted. The centrepiece is the 20-minute ‘Collapsable Mantra’, which just builds and builds to the point you think it’s going to burst, but it teeters on that brink for as long as it can before stepping back and letting itself fade away.”

Read our full review and interview in Issue 23a, 21 June, here

10- The Black Dog ‘Sleep Deprivation’ (Dust Science)

Find me someone who isn’t a fan of these Steel City legends and I will show you someone who needs a good talking to. Where ‘Other, Like Me’, their first album offering of 2024, took the more usual Black Dog techno route, the curveball of ‘Sleep Deprivation’ in all its downtempo ambient glory left us utterly gobsmacked.

We said: “‘We make techno’ says the tagline on the Sheffield legend’s Bandcamp page. They do, for sure, and brilliantly so, but brace yourselves because this ain’t techno. The Black Dog have been going about their business since forever and they remain the most vital of practitioners. And if they can produce something as great as this, especially when you consider it’s out of their comfort zone, three decades in, that’s a very high bar.”

Read our review in Issue 46, 06 December, here

11- Loula Yorke ‘Speak, Thou Vast And Venerable Head’ (quiet details)

We said: “And here she comes again. It’s perhaps no surprise to find Loula Yorke on the excellent quiet details release schedule. So much fine work is to be found in her contribution to the continuing series of releases where artist's provide their own interpretation of the label’s name. ‘Monolith Undertow’, a 13-minute+ growler that is really quite dark for Loula, sees her dance music background rear its head with some delicious squelching… ‘Matter Tells Spacetime How To Curve’ is a classic Loula title and it’s another brilliant track. I won’t spoil it for you, but you do need to give it a listen. It does something unexpected that stopped me in my tracks. The hits keep on coming.”

Read our review in Issue 23b, 21 June, here

12- Pye Corner Audio ‘The Endless Echo’ (Ghost Box)

We said: “There’s something rather magical about a PCA release on Ghost Box. From ‘Sleep Games’ and its 2016 sequel ‘Statis’ to ‘Hollow Earth’ from 2019 and 2021’s ‘Entangled Routes’, each one is uniquely Pye Corner Audio, each one distinctly Ghost Box. ‘The Endless Echo’ is a record that really isn’t going to disappoint. But what do you expect? Pye Corner Audio is the grandmaster. He never disappoints. Especially when he’s releasing on Ghost Box.”

Read our full review and interview in Issue 12, 5 April, here

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13- Patricia Wolf ‘The Secret Life Of Birds’ (Nite Hive)

We said: “You have to appreciate labels like Nite Hive, small they maybe but the power of the work they’re putting into the world is almighty. From little acorns and all that… Patricia Wolf’s avian fascination began alongside her field recording practice when she began to wonder which birds were singing and calling in her recordings. It’s become an all-encompassing passion with ‘The Secret Life Of Birds’ being a meeting in the middle of her birdy field recordings and songwriting.

Read our Track Of The Week preview in Issue 25, 5 July, here

14- Jo Johnson ‘Let Go Your Fear’ (Castles In Space)

We said: “‘Let Go Your Fear’ is a masterclass in free improvisation, which Jo shares here “unedited and unadorned”. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve listened to this since it arrived at Moonbuilding HQ. The opening track, ‘It Just Is The Love It Feels’ unfurls slowly around its repeating motive while the deep, resonant thrum of ‘Inside Eyes Sparks Fire Under Ice’ ushers in the ghosts of her underground dancefloor leanings in the 00s. The flip is one long track, ‘Unfolding And Folding’, which does just that over its 20 minutes. While it’s beatless, Jo brilliantly manages to conjure up a rhythm to her work that is utterly captivating. This is high quality stuff and demands your immediate attention.

Read our review in Issue 30, 9 August, here

15- Hologram Teen ‘Day-Glo Chaos’ (Dell’Orso)

We said: “This is such a gorgeous record, but it seems not that many people know about it and I really don’t know why. We should all be shouting from rooftops about ‘Day-Glo Chaos’. My copy is day-glo pink, which needs sunglasses. As do the tunes within.”

Read our review in Issue 36, 27 September, here

16- Enofa ‘The House By The Sea’ (Subexotic)

We said: “A selection of family photos adorn the artwork, and they include the “house by the sea” itself. There’s a story here for sure and Enofa invites you to commune “with a jumble of half-forgotten, hazy recollections of times and places past”. Favourite track is ‘Bluebells’ with its hazy post-rave stabs and bright tinkles. It’s an intriguing listen and a cracking record, this.

Read our review in Issue 10, 22 March, here

17- Brian Duffy ‘Instead Of Faint Praise’ (Buried Treasure)

We said: “Birmingham’s Brian Duffy is the loose-cannoned maverick behind Modified Toy Orchestra and The ZX Spectrum Orchestra… his choice of instrument here is very much one extreme to another. The iconic Roland System 100 is a long way from circuit-bent electronic toys. Brian was great friends was Broadcast’s late, great Trish Keenan to whose memory this new album is dedicated, musically think late-70s pioneers like The Human League mkI, Daniel Miller, Fad Gadget etc. I mean, saying that is like capnip round here isn’t it? ‘Echo’ is a gorgeous slo-mo swirl of a track, ‘Everything You Gave Me Was Good’ is like a synthpop hit in the making, 40-odd years too late. The title track is so very good, could well have been an obscure early Human League b-side.”

Read our review in Issue 33, 6 September, here

18- A’Bear ‘Glammy Racket’

We said: “‘Glammy Racket’, from South African-born, Australian-raised and London-grown Janine A’Bear, moves from the dancefloor-fuelled clang and clatter of the title track to the gentle vocal-led ‘What Remains’ to the swirling Moroder meets The Workshop of ‘Conjure’. Her second album not only has a brilliant title, it feels like her most complete and accomplished work to date. The rise of A’Bear is coming together nicely by the sounds of it. Really love this.”

Read our review in Issue 34, 13 September, here

19- The Home Current ‘Tales From The Leisure Lounge’ (Woodford Halse)

We said: “‘Tales From The Leisure League’, a record almost guaranteed to resonate because it’s about amusement arcades, the hallowed halls of our youth that fizzed with the future. Copenhagen-born, Luxemburg-based Martin Jensen talks about “the magical machines and their flashing lights and colours”, but more importantly he talks about the sounds, which he describes as “a mesmerising cacophony of bleeps, small synthetic melodic sequences, voices and effects playing randomly at the same time”. And it’s these sounds that have stayed with him over the years and it has all, clearly, fed into his musical world. He is a man who has music in his bones and it has to come out somehow. I for one am glad to have been on the receiving end over the years.”

Read our full review and interview in Issue 7, 1 March, here

20- Collins ‘VHS’ (Spun Out Of Control)

We said: “Here we have perhaps my favourite release from Spun Out Of Control this year. Collins’ ‘VHS’ is a belter. It’s so upbeat. A lot of this sort of work is dark and foreboding, not this. It’s inspired by the music of Patrick Cowley, Bobby Orlando and Giorgio Moroder and consists of the imagined theme tunes to soundtrack “a vintage VHS collection”. It’s a total hoot, Collins really understands how to work the four to the floor. There’s infectious Moroder synth licks everywhere, the tsk-tsk-tsk energy of ‘The Deuce (1985)’ has flickers of Daft Punk about it, while the pounding kick drum and squelchy synths of ‘Flesh Cult (1982)’ really cuts the mustard. This is excellent hands-in-the-air stuff.”

Read our review in Issue 41, 1 November, here

Highly commended… Marine Eyes ‘To Belong’ (Past Inside The Present), Audio Obscura ‘Acid Field Recordings In Dub’ (Subexotic), Luke Sanger ‘Dew Point Harmonics’ (Balmat), An-Ting ‘Lost Communications 失絡之聲’, Paul Cousins ‘Oxide Manifesto’ (Castles In Space), Warmfield ‘Warmfield-cum-Heath’, Sedibus ‘SETI’ (Orbscure), Shropshire Number Stations ‘Recordings Of Covert Shortwave Radio Stations (Shropshire & Mid Wales)’ (Plenty Wenlock), Annie Hogan ‘Depths Of Disturbances’ (Downwards), The Scholars Of The Peak ‘Polymorphic’, Lo Five ‘Aspirant’ (Waxing Crescent), Vibration Tapes (Luddite Tapes), Ben Underwood ‘Outdoor Work’ (Woodford Halse), Minotaur Shock ‘It All Levels Out’ (Bytes), Veryan 'One Universal Breath’ (quiet details), BUNKR ‘Antenne’, Kate Carr ‘Midsummer, London’ (Persistence Of Sound), The Sea Of Wires ‘The Sea Of Wires’ (Cold Spring), worriedaboutsatan ‘If Not Now, When?’ (This Is It Forever), Icarus ‘An Ever-Growing Meridional Entertainment Transgression At The Edge Of The Multiverse’ (Not Applicable)

COMPILATIONS OF THE YEAR

1- ‘25 Years Of DiN’ (DiN)

Any DIY label that has not only been around for 25 years, but remains vital is only to be saluted. While the easy thing to do to mark such an anniversary would be a compilation of tracks the label has released, that’s not Ian Boddy’s style. So DiN marks this milestone with a double CD 20-track collection of especially commissioned new work from an A-Z of those who have appeared on the label over the years. From Chris Carter to Scanner, Benge to d’VOxx, Polypores to Ian himself, it’s all rather brilliant. Our Compilation Of The Year then…

We said: “Marking 25 years at the coalface of anything is quite an achievement, keeping a record label going for that long deserves a very big round of applause. It’s probably worth a standing ovation when the label in question is a fully independent, totally DIY kitchen table outfit. Sustaining that kind of thing makes a 25th anniversary a herculean achievement. Just ask Ian Boddy. What he’s achieved with his Sunderland-based DiN label over the last quarter of a century is something special.”

Read our full review and interview in Issue 27a, 19 July, here

2- ‘The Engineer’ (Mortality Tables)

Music journalist Mat Smith really went all-in with his Mortality Tables label this year. In among a very full release schedule came this wonderful release dedicated to his dad, who was an engineer, and released on Fathers’ Day. It’s not strictly a compilation, but it does feature the work of 29 artists, so that’s a compilation in my book. The release sees a short story Mat wrote about his dad narrated and set to “sound responses” made in response to a 30-second clip of narration that was then weaved into a sound collage. Sadly, Mat’s dad died earlier this year. This release stands as a beautiful tribute to The Engineer.

We said: “Two and a half years in the making, the final piece is a 14-minute collage featuring 29 artists including Vince Clarke, Simon Fisher Turner, Audio Obscura, Dave Clarkson, Penelope Trappes, Fiona Soe Paing, Gareth Jones and many more. It is very good as we’ve come to expect from Mat and his label. The thought that goes into these things is almightily impressive.”

Read our review in Issue 23b, 21 June, here

3- ‘This Is Not The End: Music For IKLECTIK’ (Castles In Space)

Look, don’t tell anyone, but released digitally only on 14 February in aid of the Iklectik fundraiser and with tracks from a total DIY who’s who, this vast 34-track collection was due to be deleted on 1 March when the Iklectik crowdfunder closed. And yet here it still is! Grab while you still can. It’s very much a snapshot of where we are musically and talentwise in 2024.

We said: “Castles In Space have pulled out all the stops in a bid to help swell the IKLECTIK coffers with tracks from the likes of Gordon Chapman-Fox (that’s Mr Warrington-Runcorn), Field Lines Cartographer, Polypores, Scanner, Loula Yorke, Howlround, Jo Johnson, Lone Bison, The Mistys, Paul Cousins, Hilary Robinson, Jilk, Keith Seatman, Panamint Manse, Wealdham, Pulselovers, A’Bear and so many more. It’s an unmissable collection.”

Read our piece about the fundraiser in Issue 5, 16 February, here

4- ‘FUC-2 – A Fuctory Sample’ (WIAIWYA)

John Jarvis at WIAIWYA is some sort of crazy genius, the jury is still out on quite what sort, but one look at this incredible collection only compounds the genius part. Released on election day, and coming with no notes whatsoever, ‘FUC-2’ works on so many levels. The physical release comes with an incredible 40-page zine “charting the little-known history of Fuctory Records – the most influential label you’ve never heard of”. Full of band photos and record sleeves galore, there are a number of releases here that I’d happily pay good money for if rare copies turned up on Discogs. The music is an eclectic melting pot, everything from jangle pop to electronic floorfillers and all points in between, from the label’s artists, whose names all begin with H. It’s hard to believe none of this is real. The zine is all AI, the music made anonymously by a DIY who’s who. Flipping brilliant stuff.

Read our review in Issue 25, 5 July, here

5- ‘Undulating Waters 8’ (Woodford Halse)

I can’t underestimate the importance of Mat Handley’s ‘Undulating Waters’ compilations. Volumes 1 & 2 were agenda-setting. The first two offerings opened the doors on his new label and, released a month apart in autumn 2018, they showed just how keen an ear the Woodford Halse label boss had. They were quite the calling card and introduced many of us to the likes of Polypores, Panamint Manse, Grey Frequency, Field Lines Cartographer and more. Eight volumes in and the collection is no less vital, the mix of new names and established acts is second to none. Essential.

Read our review in Issue 41, 1 November, here

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***MOONBUILDING ISSUE 5 IS OUT NOW***

Bloody hell! Will you look at that? MOONBUILDING, Issue 5, is a scorcher. On the cover, depicted by the untouchable Nick Taylor, is the awesome Polypores. In our free-wheeling chat we get right under the hood of Stephen James Buckley’s musical operation, offer up a listening guide to help you safely navigate his extensive back catalogue and we also have an whole new Polypores album exclusively for your ears.

Yes, we are giving you a not-available-anywhere-else new album called ‘The Album I Would Have Released In An Alternate Universe’, which happens to be the sister recording to his recent Castles In Space opus ‘There Are Other Worlds’.

Want to try before you buy? No bother. If you’d like an extract from our Polypores cover feature interview where Stephen Buckley talks about his formative influences, which probably aren’t what you’d image, you can do that here… moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-28a-26-july-2024

Elsewhere in the issue there’s a profile of our new favourite label Mortality Tables, Pye Corner Audio gets in on the There’s A First Time For Everything act, we round up an absolute mountain of recent releases and serve up our thoughts on the best albums from the last few months, including Loula Yorke and Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan. There’s a column from The Orb’s Alex Paterson, which starts off about Jah Wobble and ends up about Andrew Weatherall, and an all-new instalment of Steven Appleby’s brilliant Captain Star cartoon strip.

This issue also features a pile of great book reviews (that’s great books, reviewed, rather than the reviews being great, although they are pretty good). There’s a cracking chat with Justin Patrick Moore, the author of ‘The Radio Phonic Laboratory’, and a bonus chinwag with the world’s finest music journalist, Mr Simon Reynolds.

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