electronic tracks
Track: Blanck Mass – House vs House, plus new album news
Blanck Mass – the solo electronic project of Scotland-based musician Benjamin John Power – has announced his new album, ‘Animated Violence Mild’, out August 16th on Sacred Bones. The first glimpse of the new record comes with a track that accompanies the news, House vs House. It’s a constantly evolving slab of crystalline chords and …
Track: Mark Lanegan Band – Playing Nero
Following on from Stick It Up, which we fell for previously, the Mark Lanegan Band have released a new track, Playing Nero, in the run up to the released of the band Somebody’s Knocking in October. It’s Lanegan at his introspective best, his lived in voice offering up a rather melancholy tale. As he says “Sietse …
Track/Video: Haiku Salut – Loves / Going Back
Written over a two month period in their studio on the edge of the Peak District, Haiku Salut have written a new soundtrack to Buster Keaton’s 1926 comedy classic ‘The General’, and from it they’ve released a new double a-sided single, Loves / Going Back, ahead of the albums release on August 2nd via Secret …
Track: TTY – Buttercream
TTY are our sort of band. Ahead of the release of their EP this coming Friday on the ever brilliant Young Turks label, they’ve shared a track, Buttercream. But it goes way beyond that. As the label say: They definitely slept in the Young Turks studio for about 18 months. They would emerge from the …
Track: Cross Record – PYSOL My Castle
Cross Record, aka Emily Cross of Loma, has had an eventful time of it since her last album Wabu Sabi. She’s got divorced, stopped drinking and become a death douma, as well as touring with the aforementioned Loma. Seems despite that she’s had enough time on her hands to write and record a second, self-titled …
Track: Underworld – Listen to their No, plus Drift Songs album news
Legendary electronic pioneers Underworld, aka Rick Smith and Karl Hyde have just released a new double A side single: Listen to Their No. It brings to an end the pairs fifty-two week DRIFT series, and is accompanied by news of a new album and their biggest ever headline shows. The bands DRIFT series saw pieces of …
Track: Com Truise – Ultrafiche of you, plus European Tour Dates
Com Truise, aka Seth Haley, has released a new single ‘Ultrafiche of You’, taken from his mini-album ‘Persuasion System’, which is out now on Ghostly International. As is his want, it’s this sort of semi-retro sci-fi synth heavy instrumental that slips backward but looks forward, with layers of echoey lines bleeding into eachother to create …
Track : Quantic – Atlantic Oscillations 12″
We already know that Quantic is back, with a new album, and ahead of the album release on 12th June is a 12″ bundle of remixes for the title track “Atlantic Oscillations” – The 12″ also includes a shorter radio edit, a remix from Maghreban taking the track into a 90s rave direction, and possibly …
Track: Brian Eno – Like I was a spectator, plus Apollo reissue / new music news
There is new Brian Eno music on the horizon, quite literally actually. He’s to reissue his seminal soundtrack album ‘Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks’, written with his brother Roger and Daniel Lanois to accompany Al Reinert’s landmark feature-length documentary ‘For all Mankind’, featuring footage of and interviews with Apollo astronauts. In addition, there is a whole disc …
Track: Quantic – You Used to Love Me ft. Denitia
Taken form his forthcoming album Atlantic Oscillations, You Used To Love Me ft. Denitia is the latest single from renowned producer Quantic aka Will Holland. Returning to his electronic roots, Holland has drafted in New-York based singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer Denitia to add vocals and lyrics. It’s a bustling busy electro sound, this gluey …