Electronic
Track: Django Django release new track, The Ark
Following on from event single ‘Spirals’, which marked the return of the ever brilliant Django Django, the band are back with a new track ‘The Ark’, previously only available As a b-side on the vinyl version of the Spirals single. Glittering, cascading synths and sprawling electronics make up instrumental The Ark, with these acid sounding, …
Premiere: Post Yoga release video for brilliant new single, ‘Phil’
POST YOGA is the nom-de-plume of Bristol musician Chris Barrett, who began making music under that moniker after buying a £4 charity shop keyboard. Recorded on the floor of his friends flat using just a cheap Yamaha keyboard (it’s sadly unclear if its the same £4 or another similarly procured model) he’s releasing a new …
Track: Conor Houston to release new single ‘Outside the Grocery Store’
Out on November 20th is the new single from Sheffield based Conor Houseton, titled ‘Outside the Grocery Store’. Written in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder, it’s a song that resonates through society across the world right now. Of the record, Houston says, ‘I was in a writing mood around June, and nothing else …
Track: Battles release Stirling Bridge (DJ Diary & DJ Orient (Black Midi) Remix)
What makes a remix? Take the best bits of your stuff and plenty of my stuff and make it sound like ME or take the essence of mine and the heart of yours to make something new? I know what I go for, the remix that sounds like collaboration, made from respect, taking the music …
Track: Pet Grotesque Share Psychedelic-Funk Banger ”Pingin Alone”
Hailing from South London by the way of Yorkshire, comes psychedelic-funk tinged bedroom popster, Pet Grotesque. A busy chap, Pet Grotesque also combines time playing in Speedy Wunderground outfit Tiña as well as having been a Goat Girl’s touring keys player. Despite the busy times, following up from the balearic banger ‘Scratch’ Pet Grotesque has …
Album Review: Tommy Lee – Andro
You don’t have to read the Youtube comments under the videos for the album singles to realise he’s upset a lot of his long term fans. Instead of Lee dropping a glam metal album we would all expect, he has taken 2 years to craft something different, yet uniquely Tommy Lee. The album features a …
Album Review: Machinedrum – ‘A View Of U’
As Machinedrum, LA-based producer Travis Stewart has been steadily outputting innovative records broadly influenced by rave, jungle, hip hop and soundsystem music for the past two decades. 2011’s breakthrough album Room(s), released on Planet Mu, came the same year as the Sepalcure, a collaboration with Praveen Sharma aka Braille, self-titled debut album. He’s since gone …
Track: PVA – Talks
London’s PVA arrive today with the announcement of their signing to Ninja Tune’s taste-maker label Big Dada. In celebration they have also released a new track – ‘Talks’ taking from their debut EP ‘Toner’ due November 20th Ella, Josh and Louis said of their decision: “We are really over the moon to be joining the …
TRACK: Laura Groves – ‘Infinite Wisdom’: dreamy and glittering
NEWLY signed to Bella Union, Laura Groves has shared dreamy new track “Infinite Wisdom” and its accompanying video. The glittering track comes ahead of her new six-track EP A Private Road, which will be released on December 4th. Speaking on the upcoming EP, Groves explains: “This record, made mostly on my own, became both a channel for the expression of …
Track: Left Field Messiah – A.M Moonlight
Left Field Messiah are Steve Bays (of Hot Hot Heat), Jeremy Ruzumna (of Fitz & The Tantrums) and Erik Janson (formerly of Wildling). They have announced their new project with the single ‘A.M. Moonlight’, the lead single off of their upcoming debut album, ‘In Praise of Bombast’, due out early next year via KEXP. Melodic bass line …