Electronic
News: Alison Moyet Reimagines the Past with Reworks Album ‘Key’ plus Australian Tour in 2025
Alison Moyet’s 2025 Australian Tour: A Live Journey Through Radical Song Reinventions
Album Review: Iván Muela –‘Ether’: a subtle and sublime merging of neo-classical and experimental music.
Writing a review of pianist/composer Iván Muela’s latest album ‘Ether’ feels almost like a redundant endeavour. Here is a recording likely to affect the listener differently each time they tune in, so any attempt to describe the music will only capture that one single encounter, the next time your emotions may shift. So perhaps the …
News: Joan Armatrading Announces New Album out in November 2024 Drops Track
Joan Armatrading, one of the UK’s most enduring and quietly revolutionary singer-songwriters, is back with a new album—’How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean’—dropping November 22nd via BMG. The record, like much of her recent work, is pure Armatrading: self-made, self-produced, self-engineered—every beat and note a testament to her refusal to conform, …
Track: Restless ambient artist Earthen Sea announces new album ‘Recollection’ with a luscious and loose double preview.
You may recall the name Jacob Long as a member of the seminal Dischord band Black Eyes, a group who defined post-hardcore’s in-built non-conformity. Such a starting point inevitably embedded unorthodoxy in his music making and his next excursion with the deep dub rhythmics of Mi Ami only underlined his disinclination to stand in line. …
News: Sycco Invites Us Into The ‘Zorb’ Announcing National Tour Following Debut Album
Fresh off the release of her debut album ‘Zorb’ in August, Sycco is taking her electrifying live show on the road for her first headline tour since 2022. The 23-year-old singer, songwriter, and producer is set to bring her unmistakable energy to Naarm/Melbourne, Eora/Sydney, Meanjin/Brisbane, and Tarntanya/Adelaide in early 2025, giving fans the chance to …
News: Two Door Cinema Club & Declan McKenna Announce National Headline Tour Across Australia
Australian fans are in for a real treat this December as Two Door Cinema Club and Declan McKenna join forces for their first-ever co-headline tour across the country. It’s set to be a standout event, uniting two equally captivating acts for an unmissable run of shows, including an event at the grand Sydney Opera House …
Live Review: Forwards Festival – Bristol 31.08.2024 – 01.09.2024
Returning for it’s third year Forwards Festival continued it’s growing reputation for showcasing international, national and local bands. From huge names to those most won’t have heard of across a massively diverse range of musical genres. Set on the Bristol Downs, Forwards isn’t your typical summer festival. For a start it’s just two days instead …
Live Review: Thomas Dolby – Islington Academy, London 24.08.2024
Forget Britney, it was Thomas Dolby who made the headset mic chic. Back in the early 1980s the electronica synth pioneer first came to prominence with all the poise of an airline pilot and a crazy wanderlust look in his eye. In Islington tonight he’s standing at his keyboards when he should’ve been on a …
News: Yours & Owls Festival Announce Second Stage For 10th Birthday Pre-Party + New Additions To An Already Explosive Lineup
Yours & Owls is hitting its 10th year, and the celebrations are about to kick off in a big way. Although the main festival is pushed to early 2025 due to some lineup changes, the party isn’t waiting. On October 12th, the 10th Birthday Pre-Party will be taking over the University of Wollongong with an …
Album Review: Federico Balducci & fourthousandblackbirds –‘Succulent Succubus’ : probing and powerful philosophical-drone music bursting with ideas.
Writing about any music released via the defiantly unconventional Difficult Art and Music imprint should not be a straightforward undertaking and maybe the task exposes the gaping flaws in the reviewing game. What is good, why compare, what is shallow, why is this deep and who says so? All a reviewer really does is say …