The brilliant Rival Consoles drops the echoing summer chatter of ‘Pulses Of Information’ and announces live dates
WITH a series of British live dates coming up across the autumn – for details of those, pop down the page a little – the brilliant Ryan Lee West, aka Rival Consoles, has dropped a new summery slice of his characteristically chattering, atmospheric electronica; it’s entitled “Pulses Of Information”, and you can delight in it …
News: Andy Bell announces his GLOK debut album proper; dive into the electro gleam of ‘Maintaining The Machine’
HAVING released a series of vinyl format singles, the Ever Decreasing Circles triptych, following his superb album from last autumn for Sonic Cathedral, The View From Halfway Down, and also last year’s Dissident Remixed set of rerubs from his electronic alter-ego GLOK, Andy Bell has proved himself as industrious as he is ever curious and …
See: koleżanka takes empathetic flight with the lush, modular indie of ‘In A Meeting’
KRISTINA MOORE it is who guises as koleżanka for her particular lusciously free, electronica- and folksily informed guitar music; and the New York-via-deepest Arizona songstress will surely be tempting her into your world via the conduit of her debut album, set for release at the end of July. Combining elements of retrotronica, a lo-fi modular …
News: Hear a first track as Field Works announce a companion to the arboreally beautiful ‘Cedars’ entitled ‘Maples, Ash, And Oaks: Cedars Instrumentals’
BACK in spring we both reviewed and adored an album from Field Works: less a band, more a collective exploration of the various musics that cross over and find each other out on the edges of their respective stylistic disciplines, fuse, enter the wider sphere of the ambient, all overseen by Indianapolis multidisciplinary artist and …
See: Chris Liebing propels you into the quietly epic, dancefloor mantra of ‘Something Half Way’ – he’s also playing a string of dates across Europe
ONE OF the founding fathers of the techno scene in financial hub of Frankfurt, Chris Liebing, is blazing a trail towards the release of his first album in more than three years for Mute this November with a second single drop, “Something Half Way”, which we’ve got for you below. A chattering, clicking, supremely textural …
News: As Coventry assumes the mantle of City of Culture, The Pop Group and Dennis Bovell are confirmed for a July live premiere of ‘Y Dub’, with a Mute release following
THE CRADLE of Two Tone, Coventry, is busy donning its finery as it assumes the mantle of UK City of Culture 2021; and none other than Terry Hall himself is bringing a series of great gigs to the city entitled Terry Hall Presents At Home Sessions. And one of the most eye-opening bills during the …
See: Rianne Downey seizes the day with the honeyed country of ‘Do Or Die’
INVOKING the righteous bluegrassy, feminine country strength of a fine line of songwriters that stretch back through First Aid Kit and Shelby Lynne, and right on back to Dolly back herself, Scottish country chanteuse Rianne Downey is back and proud with her strumsomely lovely new single, “Do Or Die”, in which she moves on from …
Track: Selbor reveals a Hot Chip remix of his July disco groove ‘Your Love’ to lure you to the floor
ANDALUCIAN born, but resident amongst the bright lights and grooves of London now for more than a decade and a half, Selbor knows how to bring not just a singular, intelligent synthy interiority in his music, but also the wide eyes, the big grins and the much-missed exhilaration of the summer dancefloor to a tune, …
Album review: Fuzzy Lights – ‘Burials’: Cambridge psych-folk prodigals grow a faerie ring of psych-folk, post-rock and more to lay your troubled bones within
IT’S BEEN all of eight years now since Cambridgeshire post-folk collective Fuzzy Lights have graced our ears with an album, that being Rule Of Twelfths; but the planets have aligned favourably for such a sonic missive and, scrying the near future, their fourth album of atmospheric acid-folk, Burials, will be handed down to us come …
Album review: Tashaki Miyaki – ‘Castaway’: LA dream poppers embrace a West Coast pop-glamour hush
LOS ANGELINO trio Tashaki Miyaki really do put the dream into dreampop, with a deliciously languorous, hazy cast to their music, which seems to call on the Mary Chain, Lush, Hole, Mazzy Star, soothe them into a shoegazey drowse; and they’ve a new album, Castaway, out now on July 2nd – slightly delayed – on Metropolis Records. The new …