Daily Newsletter, January 27, 2023

In this episode of the Pitchfork Review podcast, our critics talk about why seemingly everyone is listening to so much ambient music nowadays, and also answer a few burning questions from readers.

First Day Of Spring Although now based out of London, it was in the Thames-estuary coastal city of Southend-on-Sea where Samuel Jones first dreamt up First Day Of Spring. Now expanded to a five-pie…

JW Francis is right at home.

Chris Watson is the Sibelius of the tape recorder. Ahead of his appearance with Felicia Atkinson at Kings Place next month, Luke Turner speaks to him about twelve key points in his career from early tape experiments to recording at Chernobyl, via a founding stint in Cabaret Voltaire

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