Electronic
Track: Japancakes – We’re in the city
Athens, Georgia improvisional post-rockers Japancakes are back with a new self-titled album they are self releasing on 6th May. They’ve also conceived a new sound, adding vocals to the mix, with the recruitment of former Call and Response front woman Carrie Clough. It’s full of anxious sounding synth lines, that bubble and shimmer between verses. …
AlbumReview: John Carpenter – Lost Themes II
I’m not sure what you’d call this, a second wind? Third wind? Dust in the wind? Whatever wind it is, it’s a mighty one for John Carpenter. In a few print interviews I’ve read with Carpenter over the last few years he’s sounded a little on the bitter side regarding films. He was to the …
Live Review: Hong Kong Dong/the Poneymen, Le Hangar, Liege 15.04.2016
Le Hangar gigs are always an enjoyable affair. The Leffe prices are the best in town and there’s a large open fire in the centre of the room full of crackling logs, giving a cosy campfire ambience, (you still have to go outside to smoke though!). Tonight’s show is free, as part of a larger …
Album Review: Jakob Skott – All The Colours Of The Dust
If you didn’t know it by now, then I’m here to tell you that Jakob Skott is one of the premier drummers working today.He’s based in Denmark, so maybe you guys and gals chilling in your Midwest casa or East Coast domicile may not be aware of the man. But you should make yourself aware, …
Track: MRGD – Lover Go
Lover Go is the debut single from Welsh electronic artist MRGD, aka London based Marged Sion. Described as “the distance between the emotional entanglement within a controlling relationship and the strength and empowerment of being able to move on”, the track features production from SAKIMA, who’s previously worked with Ryan Hemsworth and Cyril Hahn. Lover …
Track: Strong Asian Mothers – Out of Love
“This song is inspired by the burst of energy that sometimes happens when a relationship ends, and the new found freedom that can come with that,” say electro trio Strong Asian Mothers of Out of Love, the second single taken from their anticipated Lynx Africa EP, before adding “It’s also tinged with doubts about whether …
See: Mura Masa reveals video for What If I Go?
The British youngster Mura Masa’s rise has been steady and steep. Only releasing his debut EP Someday Somewhere last year, he’s already preparing us all for his debut album, which will be released on his own label Anchor Point Records, with his second single. From the stuff we’ve heard, we can easily label Mura Masa …
Album Review: Vessels – Dilate
The main difference in the development of Leeds five piece from 2011’s Helioscope is their seeming embracing of electronica which has replaced their penchant for post-rock for new album Dilate, out now through PIAS. And while their debut was an album that showed interest and no little ambition, Dilate – with its various nods at …
Track: Two Another – Shouldn’t have done that
Following on from debut track Hogher, which showed they could handle Dilla-esque 70s soul/funk, and Keeping me Under, which raise expectation levels even further, London duo Two Another are back with their debut self-titled EP. Alongside those first two singles, it also includes a new track, Shouldn’t have done that. It’s full of these shimmering …
Album Review: Peter Baumann ‘Machines of Desire’
Peter Baumann reportedly met with his old Tangerine Dream bandmate Edgar Froese in January 2015, to discuss a reformation of sorts. Sadly, Froese’s demise some weeks later put paid to any such plans, but the rekindled desire of Baumann’s to return to music has resulted in ‘Machines of Desire’. As Baumann himself puts it: The …