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Review: While he may well be best-known for his nostalgic, synthesiser-powered Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan project, Gordon Chapman-Fox has also put out some fine music under his given name - not least 2023's ambient opus on Castles In Space's 'Subscription Library' offshoot. On Very Quiet Music To Be Played Very Loudly, Chapman-Fox delivers four expansive ambient soundscapes. He sets the tone with the Vangelis-esque synth suspense and spacey creep of 'Components', before opting for sustained, almost neo-classical sweeps and delay-laden electronic string sounds on 'Fringe'. 'Emphasis' is immersive and quietly picturesque, while closing cut 'Singular' is dark, moody and quietly paganistic - a kind of imaginary soundtrack to a 21st century folk-horror movie.

Review: Hawksmoor is James McKeown, a Bristol-based electronica artist whose sound draws heavily from 70s and 80s German electronic pioneers like Cluster, Harmonia, and the modular synth-driven hauntological textures associated with Ghost Box and Mount Vernon Arts Lab. His counterpart solo project Hawksmoor incepted eight years ago as an imagined soundtrack to London's six iconic Hawksmoor churches: great baroque houses of god, designed by famous English architect Nicholas Hawksmoor. But this new one breaks from the first's particular focus for an absolutist toying with form: Experiments in Tape is his second release on Lunar Module and it continues to hear the artist forge burbling, modular sublime-scapes.