Electronic
Track: The Chemical Brothers – Sometimes I feel so deserted, plus album news
Nearing quarter of a century at the cutting edge of mindwarp electronica, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons are back once again with a new track, Sometimes I feel so deserted, and a new album Born in the Echoes. Their eighth studio album contains eleven tracks of classic Chemical Brothers featuring collaborations with Q-Tip, Ali Love, …
Track: Laura Doggett – Into the Glass (full Spector mix)
Its probably the remarkable voice of Bath singer-songwriter Laura Doggett thats bringing her to the attention of many – not least Years & Years, who she supported recently at their London Heaven dates, and has earned her places at a handful of summer festivals including The Great Escape in May, Dot to Dot Festival in …
New Music: Machineyfied – Piss Business / Alan Minter
To celebrate the launch of a new Nottingham record label, NGland Records, Antronhy – the drummer with Bicouac and Punish the Atom has got together with Jason WIlliamson of the Sleaford Mods to record a new double ‘A’ sided single, titled Piss Business / Alan Minter. Called Machineyfied, the record is inspired by the alienation …
Album Review: Roisin Murphy – Hairless Toys
Roisin Murphy will release her third solo album ‘Hairless Toys’ on May 12th, but after nearly eight years since her second album “Overpowered’ reached number twenty in the UK album charts I’m guessing a few of you may be wondering who Roisin is; Firstly. it’s pronounced Rosheen, like machine, not Roison, like poison or Wassin’ …
See: Maiians release video for Sionara
With their two drummers, intricate lines of post rock mashed with electronica and arresting live shows we were always likely to like Maiians, and following their debut Tokyo EP and a string of sold out headline shows, the Oxford five piece are back with a new single, Sionara. Opening with these hazy synth lines, and …
See: Lisbon release ‘I Don’t Know’ Music Video
‘I Don’t Know’ is the latest video from Lisbon and it’s a great track to get you in the mood for summer now that the days are longer and the sun is showing. It’s a brilliantly simple premise for a music video – pelting the band with water balloons that suitably serves the song giving …
Album Review: Grace Jones – The Disco Years
1977 was an important year according to most people I know, and many I don’t. The first Star Wars film was screened, The first issue of 2000AD was published, Apple was incorporated, the rings of uranus were discovered (much to the amusement of most), Led Zeppelin and Elvis Presley played their last concerts, Elvis then …
See: Rubik releases new video for ‘Duet’
Shaun Yule, the London producer otherwise known as Rubik, has been on the edges of the experimental electronic scene for a while now, both as a performer – his latest album Tone Poem is his fourth, and as label boss of left-field imprint Domestiv Records, home (at least at some time) to the likes of …
Album Review: Lonelady – Hinterland
Manchester’s Julie Ann Campbell, aka LoneLady, piqued listeners’ interest with her debut album five years ago and has now returned with the remarkable Hinterland, an incredible hat tip to early ‘80s dance music. In a city with such a strong male-dominated mod rock tradition, LoneLady stands out a mile with classic Roland riffs and Nile …
Live Review: East India Youth – Rise, Bristol, 10.04.2015
To people of a certain age in Bristol the mention of Imperial Records makes everyone slightly glassy eyed and wistful. It was a place to bump into friends and find new music thanks to a multitude of recommendations chalked on its walls. Its demise felt like another lurch forward in the gentrification of what used …