Category: electronica
Lapland – Unwise
Mostly because we’re fans of that Northern outpost and its inhabitants Lapland would have appeared here even if his entire output consisted of the analogue recordings of a longnailed old lady with a fetish for shredding decommissioned blackboards. As it […]
Mogwai – George Square Thatcher Death Party (Justin K Broadrick Reshape)
I’ll be honest and admit that I never ventured beyond ‘Rano Pano’ and ‘San Pedro’ for Mogwai’s last album ‘Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will’. Typical of the malaise in their output I scoffed and without much more evidence […]
Solomon Grey – Firechild
I know, this could well be the Scissor Sisters with some of their geeky brothers supplying the admittedly fancy electronic noodling in the background. And don’t be fooled by websites that claim the band ‘is a Brighton based company selling […]
FNDTY – Never Die
Fandi Aditya chose to do it differently and because he operates on his lonesome it does make sense. He is informed by loud guitars with real song structures but the tools at his disposal are from an altogether more contemporary […]
The Dying Seconds – The Ladder Drops
You can hardly read an article about the Cast of Cheers without reference to their supply methods, namely giving away their début away for free and how that cast them upon a wider audience. Those facts are beyond dispute but […]
Nomadic Firs – In The Morning
Ryan Boos lives with his wife and a cast of chickens in rural America. He also records music as Nomadic Firs and releases them on ye olde media format cassette (a spooling tape device that is prone to miscalculation and […]
Fotoshop – Becoming Zen
You could call it dirty MGMT, but then what more would you expect from a north european purveyor of processed beats. As it is the hooks aren’t as clean as they need to be to ensure wholesale devotion, but that […]
Saganism – Black Airs
Despite being taken from his ‘A Little Night Music’ album, Walter Higgins’ ‘Black Airs’ works equally well on a calm Sunday afternoon. It is the sort of shy retiring type you could expect from Richard D. James where he to […]
Spirit Spine – Delta
Joseph Denney has had to put up with a tumultuous year, one that saw his world spin on its axis. Luckily though his musical craft remains undisturbed, if anything it may have even been reinvigorated. Not that it needed to […]
Boards of Canada – Dayvan Cowboy
Mention Sigur Ros and Explosions In The Sky to most people and they are likely to return the favour with quizzical looks. This despite the fact that compositions from both parties have high audiobility throughout the mainstream media. A little […]
Slow Magic – Corvette Cassette
This has such an overriding sense of Washed Out splendour that it makes me want to open up a bar in a relaxed resort on a Greek island. A little spot that has thusfar attracted little fanfare. Nothing too different […]
Winter Sport – Northern Summer
What a strange and rather fabulous song. Full of contradictions that extend from its title to the band who made it and from the mix of plodding 80’s percussive techniques to the slinky 21st century laptop laser guided gestures. The […]