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Add to playlist: Jake Muir’s church bell soundscapes, plus the week’s best new tracks
The American found-sound artist’s new album captures all the delight and drama of European bellringing, as he manipulates field recordings into drifting 20-minute works
He has long been an inventive manipulator of sound – 2020’s The Hum of Your Veiled Voice pricked its ears up at night-time Berlin, while 2023’s Bathhouse Blues blended gay porn soundtracks into rudderless soundscapes – and his latest album, Campana Sonans ( available on Bandcamp) is a deeply immersive pair of 20-minute works, built from recordings he made of church bells around Europe. Photograph: PR BXKS – Zagga Dat A subtle yet insinuating digidub bassline powers this sensual club cut from the UK rapper, as she gives dance instructions with the imperious calm of a long-reigning ballroom announcer. Skream and Benga – Good Things Come to Those Who Wait The dubstep legends serve up early-10s nostalgia on a heavily vibrating silver platter: a Pariah-like note of penetrating digital bass gives way to a gleefully corny trance breakdown.
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