electronic tracks
Track: Darkstar – Wolf
On their new track Wolf, the first new music from Darkstar (aka Aiden Whalley and James Young) since 2015’s Foam Island, the pair say “Wolf if is about something ominous catching you back up. Bills, the big bad wolf. Who knows? We wanted to have some fun with how brazen the lyrics are in comparison with how …
Track: Bartelby Delicate – From Top To Toe
Luxembourg singer-songwriter Bartlelby Delicate (not his real name we assume, although if it is wouldn’t that be something) has just released a new single, From Top to Toe, available now on all your usual streaming platforms. After meeting German producer Taison (Lali Puna, Portmanteau) after travelling 1500km to play a show in Munich in which …
Track: Bat for Lashes – Kids in the dark
The wonderful thing about music I find is the ability to transport you to a time. Whether it was the first time you heard it, back when we all still bought CDs, or how it can transport you back in time with a feeling or a sense that defined an era. Kids in the dark, …
Track: Azure Blue – Event Horizon + ‘Images Of You’ sampler
Azure Blue – Event Horizon The brilliant new single from the forthcoming ‘Images Of You’ album by Sweden’s Azure Blue, ‘Event Horizon’ will recall the best of OMD, with a whispery subdued vocal. It’s a dark but hopeful story about love in the time of climate change that showcases captivating melodies, a soaring chorus, and …
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 …