electronic tracks
Track: Portico Quartet – Endless
Portico Quartet have revealed a new track “Endless” ahead of their forthcoming album “Art in the Age of Automation”. Minimal beats and industrial soundscapes gradually peal pack to reveal a warm sensuous soundscape. The blend of live instrumentation and electronics combined with the industrial theme harks back to electronica pioneers such as Basil Kirchin, but …
Track: Anna Of The North – Someone, plus news
Anna Of The North is Anna Lotterud from Norway with Brady Daniell-Smith from New Zealand. They first met in Australia where they began writing together and the diverse geographical influences somehow make their way into the new single “Someone” – the arctic, haunting and melancholic voice of Lotterud over the bright synth pop music. It …
Track: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – The Punishment of Luxury, plus album news
One of the best synth bands of the eighties, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), are back with a new single and video “The Punishment of Luxury” in anticipation of their album of the same name due out on 1 September 2017. As I have often written before, creativity does not have a use-by date, …
Track: St Vincent – New York
Hot on the heels of announcing details of her Fear the Future tour, Annie Clark aka St. Vincent has released some new music in the shape of a track, New York. It’s the first new material since her brilliant self-titled album from 2014, and it takes a left turn from that guitar laden sound, with …
Track: Zola Jesus – Exhumed
Nika Roza Danilova aka Zola Jesus has just announced her new record, Okovi, is to be released on September 8th, and sees her return to Sacred Bones Records. It consists of 11 electronics led tracks and she drafted in a number of collaborators to work on the record, including longtime live bandmate Alex DeGroot, producer/musician …
Track: Tora – Empyrean
Australian quartet Tora have set heads turning ahead of the release of their debut album Take a Rest on June 9th, with this insistent, driving electro-indie. New track Empyrean – telling the tale of a homeless man in Montreal, fearing the worst upon the onset of winter, follows the pattern to the letter, layered with …
Track: Holy Boy – Lay Your Hands
Norwegian-born, LA based singer songwriter Helene Alexandra Jaeger garnered some serious interest in her previous guise as Her Royal Harness, and is about to release a new EP under her new guise as Holy Boy. Produced by Ben Hillier (The Horrors, Depeche Mode, Blur) at The Pool Studios in London 2016, the first single taken …
Track: Rina Sawayama – Cyber Stockholm Syndrome
East London based, Japanese born artist Rina Sawayama’s breakout single – last years ‘Where U are’ peeked the interest of many, and she’s back with a new single Cyber Stockholm Syndrome. Produced by Clarence Clarity and Hoost, the track has this ice cool glitchy feel about it, Sawayamas vocal standing out with its warmth, telling …
Track: Hajk – Nothing Left to Say
Oslo quintet Hajk caused a stir amongst taste-makers and keen observers with their single Magazine, and ahead of their debut self-titled album, they’re back with a new track, ‘Nothing Left to Say’. On top of it’s indie leanings is a coat of glittering electro-pop, and it weaves its layers intricately around a tale of love …
Track: SQRD – Together
Out right now on Swedish Tastemaker label Sommarhjärta is the new single, Together, from Berlin/Stockholm producer SQRD. On the track, he says “I’d just moved back to Stockholm from Berlin, the winter nights were dark, cold, lonely, I was missing everyone I’d left behind in Germany and frantically listening to FKA Twigs and Låpsley on …