Barnt

Magazine 131 is not the hundred and thirty-first Magazine label release, but rather the first single to be taken from label co-founder Barnt's acclaimed 2014 full-length, Magazine 13. It features two reworks of album favourite "Cherry Red". Tale of Us and Recondite join forces on the A-side, delivering a creepy but strangely inviting version built around a pulsating, modular-sounding groove and trippy, top-end electronics. Magazine co-founder Jens-Uwe Beyer opts for a different approach on the flip, lacing sparse, melancholic melodies and ghostly strings atop a sparse but thunderous, kick drum-driven rhythm.