Solo album from Jessica Rylan aka Can't that bundles a whole bunch of her most intimate experimental strategies: wildly truncated homemade electronic compositions; modulated fevers of vocals; stumpy idiot-avant rock hysterics and weird, fractured songs. Some of the more electronic tracks walk the line between overwhelming Industrial assault and vulnerable, unarmoured self-expression in a way that feels like the perfect 'use' of noise aesthetics, functioning as a cover for otherwise-awkward personal revelation. There are moments where Jessica roams so far from the piece-as-conceived, where she sounds like she's muttering to herself or adjusting some equipment, that feel more like documentary recordings than 'finished' studio work and it's this weird tension between public performance and uncomfortable voyeurism that gives the LP - and the bulk of Jessica's amazing back catalogue - much of its revelatory power. On the flip, her guitar playing combines Jandek style dissonance with coy vocals and some pretty funny lyrics and the whole thing ends with a supremely feral drums/vocal dirge that is pure Shaggs/Adris Hoyos/Heather Leigh. Edition of 500 copies with full colour sleeves and a colour inner bag with art by Jessica herself. Recommended.

New album from Sarah Lipstate aka Noveller represents another leap forward for her post-Fripp guitar loop style with a more melodic focus that sees her combining electrified Americana ala Glenn Jones in Cul De Sac w/subtle layers of stratified drone and sweetly singing feedback. Indeed, there’s a lightness of touch to these instrumental conceptions that was not apparent before, a delicacy of construction that lends them the feathery weight of dreams or reveries, as ghostly melodies thread their way through floating tones and triumphal solos explode from out of the air. Very beautiful. "Sarah Lipstate is Noveller and Glacial Glow is her most assured, accomplished statement to date. Lipstate largely sheds the distortion and feedback present in much of her earlier work. Instead, she relies on instantly memorable melodies, a wider sonic palette, and excellent pacing to deliver arguably her best album. Noveller announces her intentions from the opening track, appropriately titled "Entering", as the syncopated rhythm of the melody represents a new twist from her previous guitar work. This is only the hors d'oeuvre for the stunning "Glacial Wave", which drifts along serenely until Lipstate rains down gorgeous arpeggios like icy shards from the heavens. Other pieces feature sparse arrangements anchored by pulsing throbs which evoke a subtle, creeping anxiety more menacing than the feel-good retro-horror soundtracks making the rounds these days. Throughout Glacial Glow, Lipstate exercises restraint and a fleeting melancholy feeling pervades the album. It says something about an album's quality when the closing track, "Ends", is chosen as the lead-off video. Ocean sounds combine with the lovely chord progression and guitar lines to create an uplifting, yet slightly wistful feeling and a perfect bookend to the record.” – WF.