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David Bazan’s Curse Your Branches

David Bazan’s Curse Your Branches is out today, the debut album from the former frontman of indie stalwarts Pedro The Lion. Branches is a lyrical goliath from one of Paste Magazine’s Top 100 living songwriters, tackling alcoholism, apostasy, and faith in the family. We have the first single off it, Bless This Mess [listen below], available for free download from the Music Download section of Lost At E Minor.

Langhorne Slim

Langhorne Slim’s forthcoming release is called Be Set Free and will be out in late September. This track off it, I Love You, But Goodbye, is beautiful, cinematic and cohesive, with gut-wrenching lyrics and a simple but sweet melody. We have it available for free download via the Music Download section of Lost At E Minor.

Bonnie Prince Billy’s Lie Down in the Light

One of the most gifted singer-songwriters this side of early Bob Dylan rarely makes a public appearance: his fans are getting desperate, hence the timeliness of this live album, Lie Down in the Light. The most immediately notable aspect of this, however, is the lack of difference between his concert recordings and his studio releases. This has nothing to do with squeaky clean production on the former, however: the focus should be on the genius production on past studio albums. There is perhaps no other artist around today that reaches so far out of the speakers and into your private space. More than most live recordings can offer, Oldham sounds so immediate and so clear that he may as well be sitting on the end of your bed. 1999’s I See A Darkness was completely disarming in this respect. Producer Steve Albini summed it up well: ‘He chooses the people he’s going to play with shortly before the session, so everyone is playing by the seat of their pants, and the music is at constant risk, subject to the weaknesses of whoever’s in the room’. The live album is certainly no disappointment, despite the distance between him and listener growing slightly. This time he’ll be sitting outside your window, the pane of glass giving a haunting, lo-fi quality to the sound, but still the man is right there carrying the same, heavy presence.

James Mackay’s Even Though I’m Free I Am Not

Award-winning photojournalist James Mackay’s latest project comes at a time when the world’s eyes are fixed on Burma and the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi. By photographing former political prisoners displaying the names of their colleagues and friends who remain behind bars, Even Though I’m Free I Am Not exposes the enduring pain faced by Burma’s opposition movement. Over 2,100 activists, journalists, lawyers and politicians languish in prisons across the country, and on Friday Aung San Suu Kyi will likely join them. Read more

Secret Supper Clubs

The blind date of the food world has finally arrived, and it’s proving more palatable than the awkwardness of an evening spent in superficial conversation. Secret Supper clubs are springing up in the backstreets of London: what are attics and living rooms by day get converted into makeshift restaurants catering for an evening of surprise tastes and conversations. Read more

Adam Farlie

Young British designer Adam Farlie takes a leftfield approach to how people experience interaction with objects, often taking everyday items and toying with their potential to harbour deeper meaning and greater usage than first perceived. He transforms a bed into a ‘vessel that captures and contains the audio-memories of past occupiers through sound’, allowing those who lie on the bed to recall past intimcaties or conversations from years ago, while his take on a chest of drawers’ purpose of holding records of people is similarly intriguing.