There is a particular shade of electric blue that appears on the inside of your eyelids when you rub your eyes too hard, a colour that feels both artificial and deeply biological, and that is precisely where Vacant Shores and their new EP, "Vacant Shores", seem to reside. Jon Elliott, AJ ‘Sid’ Sidford, and Suzy Alderton have managed to capture something peculiarly British here;...

So, Vadim Militsin’s Logica Abstracta project delivers “Amber”. Four tracks of pure ambient drift. No rhythmic anchors, just textures that shimmer and dissolve like heat haze off distant tarmac, or maybe the condensation trail of a plane miles overhead. They call it ‘sonic jewelry’, which feels strangely apt. These aren’t grand, sprawling statements; they’re intricate little things, polished smooth, catching the light in unexpected...