An artist who conjures a truly special atmosphere, Westerman recently took charge of
Delivering a spacious, down tempo selection that dwells on beatific mood, he also included a brand new remix.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra picks apart Drawbridge , adding opaque psychedelic elements and swirling new layers of noise around Westerman s vocal.
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Bex Day
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Westerman. CREDIT: Bex Day
Westerman has teamed up with Unknown Mortal Orchestra for a new ‘Drawbridge’ remix – you can listen to it below.
The original track featured on the west Londoner’s 2020 debut album, ‘Your Hero Is Not Dead’, and now it’s been given the remix treatment.
Shared during Westerman’s BBC Sounds’ Morning After mix on Sunday (February 7), Unknown Mortal Orchestra transforms the acoustic intro into a hazy, reverb-soaked slice of psychedelic goodness.
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In a four-star review of ‘Your Hero Is Not Dead’,
NME‘s Charlotte Krol called it “a wonderful, complex thing” and “quite easily one of the year’s most impressive and textured records”.
Other Music’s staff tell us their Top 10s of 2020 (listen to the playlist)
We ve been asking artists and other industry figures for their Top 10 albums of the 2020, and here we have year-end lists from a bunch of staff members of much-missed NYC record store
Other Music, which closed in June of 2016. One of the first things a lot of customers did on walking into Other Music was look up at the giant white board above the counter to see the current staff Top 10 lists, so it s a treat to have a virtual version of that here. We got lists from 20 staff members, including co-owner