'KHONNOR' - A GRAVE WITH NO NAME

This was the first A Grave With No Name track I ever recorded.

It was inspired by the amazing music of Khonnor, who made an album called 'Handwriting' 5 years ago, when he was 17 years old.

Download: 'Khonnor' - A Grave With No Name

A GRAVE WITH NO NAME - DUMMY MIXTAPE

A mixtape, first published by DUMMY magazine.

1. 'Krusty' - Papa M

2. 'Candy Girl' - Trailer Trash Tracys

3. 'Fruit Bats Forever #7 Excerpt' - Hype Williams

4. 'Portofino' - Teengirl Fantasy

5. 'Her Open Heart' - Natural Numbers

6. 'Like Lovers' - Celestial Bodies

7. 'The Man From the Anthill' - Khonnor

8. 'Sunday Night' - Lotus Plaza

9. '21st Union' - Arch M

10. 'dlp 1.3' - William Basinski

Download: here.

GROUPER

Just when I wanted the sonic gap between The Cocteau Twins and Khonnor in my record collection bridging, along comes Liz Harris (AKA Grouper) with her glacial, sadly-beautiful LP ‘Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill’. Whereas The Cocteau Twins can occasionally sound a touch like Enya with a rack of effects pedals, Grouper’s muse is a fragile one – femine, melancholy, never afraid to observe the dark edges but without becoming consumed by them. Whereas the term ‘shoegaze’ can often drown in its very masculine portentousness, Grouper’s chains of delays and reverbs act as gauze through which to peer into her peerless, insular creations.

Top 5 albums of the year. Easy.

Download: 'Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping' - Grouper