Plinth is an elemental architectural unit that serves as the base of a column or statute, negotiating between said structure and the ground. Plinth is also the ambient electro-acoustic project of Dorset-based Michael Tanner. This bloke has been doin the one-man bedroom symphony thing for a while now, constructing quiet, meditative ditties full of restrained guitar strumming, glacial string movements and, of course, toy piano. These tunes wrap you up like a warm blanket, fill your susceptible mind with bittersweet melancholia and a vague sense of nostalgic yearning, and send you off to drift through sentimental reveries without even a touch of irony or distance. The perfect accompaniment to your Easter sunday in-bed tea party. Check out Plinth’s latest release, Collected Machine Music, off Time Released Sounds. Like one of Proust’s madeleines in the shape of a music box, it’ll unlock your delicate mind so you can try to find all that lost time.
“DSM” showcases the many individual styles of Brockton’s Van Buren Records
It has been a fruitful 18 months for the Brockton super-collective Van Buren Records. Their two 2021 records, Bad For Press and Black Wall…