Since you are interested in Beacons of Ancestorship, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
Air
Love 2 [ EMI Music / CD - released 19/Oct/2009 ] Air's fifth studio effort (well, seventh if you count 'The Virgin Suicides' & 'City Reading' discs) is instantly recognisable as their sound, but sees the band exploring some new territories, with the help of L.A.-based percussionist, Joey Waronker. |
David Sylvian
Manafon (Digipak Edition) [ Simadhisound / CD - released 15/Sep/2009 ] On 'Manafon', David Sylvian pursues "a completely modern kind of chamber music. Intimate, dynamic, emotive, democratic, economical." |
British Sea Power
Man of Aran [ Rough Trade Records / 2 CD/DVD - released 15/Jun/2009 ] British Sea Power follow up their critically acclaimed 2008 album, 'Do You Like Rock Music', with a re-written soundtrack to the 1934 docudrama, 'Man of Aran'. |
The Future Sound of London
Environments II [ Pinnacle / Passion Music, LTD. / CD - released 10/Feb/2009 ] 'Environments II' is this duo's first foray into more cinematic, ambient music. |
The Future Sound of London
From the Archives - Volume 6 [ Jumpin & Pumpin / CD - released 25/Oct/2010 ] Once again Brian Dougans and Garry Cobain have come up with an inspired selection of tracks that had been left as just ideas at the time but now completed and mixed to be delivered in all their glory. |
Jon Hopkins
Insides [ Domino Records / CD - released 4/May/2009 ] Jon Hopkins is a musical shapeshifter: a composer, pianist and a self-taught studio wizard. He makes affecting, bold electronic music, using walls of synths, lustrous melodies and amorphous bass rumbles. |
Memory Tapes
Seek Magic [ POD / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] 'Seek Magic' is very modern-sounding and seductively exotic electronica that also clearly carries a torch for Eno; Moroder; and New Order, with nods to Cocteau Twins; Donna Summer; Justice; Johnny Marr; and My Bloody Valentine. |
The Phenomenal Handclap Band
The Phenomenal Handclap Band [ POD / CD - released 24/Aug/2009 ] The Phenomenal Handclap Band are a many-membered ensemble, which features musicians from TV on the Radio; Jon Spencer Blues Explosion; and The Dap Kings, all of whom contribute their individual talents to make for a very exciting whole. |
Sunn O))))
Monoliths & Dimensions [ Southern Lord / CD - released 4/Dec/2015 ] 'Monoliths & Dimensions', the seventh Sunn O))) album, continues the monolithic low-end throb & stentorian guitar drones the duo are best known for, and features an array of past collaborators plus brand new guests. |