| PLAY ORDER | ARTIST | SONG TITLE | ALBUM TITLE | TIME | LABEL | COUNTRY | YEAR |
| 1 | Chris Weeks | The Ebb & Flow | The Ebb & Flow | 23.20 | Self Released | England | 2013 |
| 2 | Xander Harris | Clear Expensive Skies | The New Dark Age Of Love | 6.59 | Not Not Fun Records | USA | 2013 |
| 3 | Orbit Over Luna | Hiroshima: City Of Peace | Hiroshima/Miyajima | 7.05 | Self Released | Canada | 2013 |
| 4 | Leaving Richmond | We Are Stars | Human Minds, Robot Hearts | 3.57 | Self Released | USA | 2013 |
| 5 | Twigs And Yarn | Yuurei | Yuurei (Single) | 4.58 | Flau | USA | 2013 |
| 6 | Rhian Sheehan | Nocturne 1985 | Stories From Elsewhere | 4.49 | Self Released | New Zealand | 2013 |
| 7 | Waking Aida | Allergic | Hyperdiamond/Allergic | 6.03 | Self Released | England | 2013 |
| 8 | Collapse Under The Empire | Ashfall | The Silent City | 4.38 | Self Released | Germany | 2013 |
| 9 | Pan American | Glass Room At The Airport | Cloud Room/Glass Room | 6.03 | Kranky | USA | 2013 |
| 10 | Rachel Grimes | She Was Here | Compound Leaves | 3.18 | Self Released | USA | 2013 |
| 11 | emmalee^crane | Manitoba | Crowd Of Reeds | 2.53 | Streetlight Farm | USA | 2013 |
| 12 | emmalee^crane | The Seventeenth Wheel | Crowd Of Reeds | 5.01 | Streetlight Farm | USA | 2013 |
Record Of The Week
emmalee^crane – Crowd Of Reeds
When you order a physical release from emmalee^crane you recieve a sticker stating that ‘Drone Is Not Mindless’, how very true that statement is. Especially when it comes from this particular drone/ambient and at times even cinematic sounding artist. emmalee has just released her third full length release titled ‘Crowd Of Reeds’ and it could very well be her best work to date. Although I must say that the previous releases to this one, ‘Formantine’ and ‘Crux’ are also very fine releases. So the new album, released on Streetlight farm records is just under 41minutes in length spread over 10 tracks. I really enjoyed this release on its very first listen, but I have been leaning towards this genre of music for quite a while now. I think it must be the solitude and calmness of it all. Anyway, what about ‘Crowd Of Reeds’, it opens with the excellent title track which sets the tone for the album and it a bit experimental in nature, especially at the start but settles into a nice in and out rhythm. I am not going to describe all the tracks but I must say that placing the melancholic, strikingly beatiful but stark track ‘You Coil Like Flowers’ next to the more uplifting ‘Manitoba’ is a stroke of genius as both these tracks are so contrasting. It just shows how versatile this artist really is.
So this release will be, i suspect, be on a few peoples top 10 list of 2013. It really is a great album and I would strongly advise adding this to your collection.
The album was written and performed by emmalee^crane with some help from the following musicians
Sarah Conroy: Clarinet, Cor Anglais
J. Patrick Bromham: Trumpet, French Horn, Euphonium
Miles Fender: Violin, Guitar
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