My Inland Empire

Just a quick notice to y'all, that I've been sizeing up what to do next with My Little Inland Empire, hosted kindly by Livejournal, and I have decided with the good consultation from The Peanut that I should move to pastures new, i.e my own website. So everyone get ready to get out those pens and change your bookmark of this sad and decrepit place to the new and lively new place which will be up and running at a soon to be specified address in a TBA period of time, maybe a day or two, maybe a week, maybe never at all, but lets hope not the latter.


Now to the music.


Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

I might say daily about loads of different albums "This is my favourite album" and I might well be correct in saying so, but when it comes to this album I just can't say it, It's on an other celestial plain of favourite albums and theres no way I can sully it with the first accolade. Mark Hollis is an album of unbelievably haunting beauty and starkness, a mixture of jazz, ambient and folk. Minimalist, quiet and intimate textures make this a utterly compelling and emotional album. Understated but also with a devastating use of atmosphere. A truely unique listening experience.

Nothing is more essential than this album





The Field - From Here We Go Sublime

On a slightly different tack this is an album full of luscious "techno" well technically a mixture of gauzy shoegaze, slippery ambient loops, and heavy bass drum. A fantastic electronic album from the master from Sweden.






Low - I Could Live In Hope

Low's first album from a prodigious oeuvre is an amazing debut. An Unclassifable band which make beautiful slow melodic tracks, patient and sparse made by the husband and wife team of  Sparhawk and Parker. Utterly Minimalist, Low truely behold the gift of understatement.

Highly Recommended






4hero - Play With The Changes

4hero are the forerunners of Broken Beat in the UK, producers and musicians they are the main driving forces behind the scene. This, their latest album, is drenched in Neo-Soul and Brokenbeat all done to a very high production level. While some say this isn't their best album, it's still a very good one and probably their most accessible to the curious.





Smog - Came Blue 7"

I have literally just heard this for the first time but I was so blown away by the simple beauty of these two tracks I just had to put this here straight away and not wait for another post. From the Red Apple Falls period and engineered and co-vocal-ed by Jim O'Rourke. A must have for Smog fans and anyone else for that matter.