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Bakis Sirros possesses a refined instinct for shaping modular soundscapes, his approach grounded in a lineage traced back to early sonic navigators, where vintage machinery murmurs from afar and expansive emotional horizons gradually unfold.
His latest collaboration with Neo Ouija presents sound and vision in genuine metamorphosis, and stands as a clear highlight in our Best of 2025. Emerging from shadow and drifting at a distance, opener “Rejected” glides through calm blips, bleeps, and ambient electronic flutter, darker currents offset by an uplifting charge that gently invites reflection. “Logic Bending” follows, lifting atmosphere while rhythmic forms remain in motion; Sirros settles into downtempo strata, threading delicate fragments through soft glitch and shimmer, a familiar motif from his catalog quietly detonating from within.
Gentler moments surface in the sedated circuitry of “Soft Rain,” rise toward the IDM-tinged grace of “Dreamwave,” then culminate in the fully transporting journey that closes the record, “Inertia.” Here, Parallel Worlds opens broad sonic plateaus, carefully assembled with devotion to enigmatic realms, passing through luminous and obscured corridors alike, guiding listeners effortlessly between unseen dimensions. A masterclass in ambient electronic propulsion.
The visual fluidity and morphing forms of the cover’s art—where shapes seem to ripple and melt like liquid caught between states—are mirrored in the music itself, as Parallel Worldsquite literally opens doorways to other dimensions.
Kayla Painter is a guiding light in the modern experimental music world - with a list of achievements it’s impossible to sum up in this limited format. From a string of albums solo and in collaboration, to much in demand immersive live performances, to lecturing, to hosting radio shows and much more besides - all with widespread critical acclaim - she’s an artist with endless creativity and energy.
So I’m delighted to welcome her to quiet details with her stunning album, Tectonic Particles
A gorgeous exploration of textural and harmonic cohesion - full of delicate melodic phrasing, environmental recordings and nuanced sound-design - this is Kayla doing what she does so well, crafting beautiful sound-spaces to get lost in.
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I am also hosting Rural Electric, this week spotlighting Ringo Starr's new country album, Look Up
Wish You Were Here has been a mainstay on all-time greatest albums lists for decades. The multi-Platinum-selling #1 hit record was Pink Floyd’s first to reach the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, becoming the band’s fastest selling album. In 1973, The Dark Side of the Moon had taken Pink Floyd from a hugely successful breakout British band to one of the biggest rock groups on the planet. Wish You Were Here was the band’s powerful response to their newfound global fame.
Featuring the multi-part eulogy to Syd Barrett ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’, the hypnotic ‘Welcome To The Machine’, the scathing ‘Have a Cigar’ with its immortal line “Oh by the way, which one’s Pink?” famously sung not by Waters or Gilmour, but by non band-member Roy Harper, and the essential title track, Wish You Were Here is undoubtedly one of the most important album releases in the history of popular music.
The record’s themes of absence, isolation, transience, and comment on the insincerity of the music business are embodied in the iconic album artwork. The visual puns developed by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell at Hipgnosis remain instantly recognisable visual statements today.
Remembering that time, Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell said:
“In the 1970s, album covers were equally as important as the music, because the cover helped to sell the record. Record stores would carry 10,000 different images in album sleeves, so what we were doing had to look different and stand out amongst the crowd.
I remember turning around to Storm and saying, how are we going to set a man on fire? Because there was no digital way of doing it in those days. He said, Po, you’re just going to have to do it for real. That was it.
One has to remember that Pink Floyd were the only band on EMI and Capitol Records who had the rights to the creative – in terms of album cover – besides the Beatles. That’s why we were allowed to do what we wanted. It was brilliant. Just the same way that Pink Floyd were a very inventive band at the time, so were Hipgnosis. We were determined to keep that abstract, enigmatic image alive and hence, we were able to do that for Pink Floyd.”
In 2025 the ardent support and fascination surrounding Pink Floyd’s music remains. The newly restored version of their groundbreaking 1972 film Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII stormed box offices around the world, with the live album debuting at #1 on the UK Albums Chart, marking the band’s first UK chart-topper in eleven years and the seventh in their career. The film was praised by critics and audiences the world over, with The Guardian describing it as a “mesmerically peculiar portrait of a band on cusp of greatness.” 50 years since its release, Wish You Were Here sounds as resonant and vital as ever, and in reaching this milestone deserves to be celebrated anew. This special anniversary edition allows fans, for the first time, to delve deeper into a pivotal moment in Pink Floyd’s history.
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