Electronic
Track: Kwes – Midori
Lewisham producer Kwes, best known for his production work with the likes of Bobby Womack, NAO, Solange, and Loyle Carner, plus he mixed label mate Kelela’s debut album ‘Take Me Apart’, is back with an EP of his own after five years. Titled Songs for Midi, and it’s an ode to his two year old …
Playlist: Rare gems from the Warp Records Catalogue 1989-1994
The story of Warp is now a thing of legend. Born out in Sheffield’s FON record shop by store workers Steve Beckett and the late Rob Mitchell, alongside record producer Robert Gordon. Originally named Warped, it was shortened when the trio discovered it was difficult to distinguish over the phone. Like any new label, they …
See: Simian Mobile Disco release video for new single Caught in a Wave
Simian Mobile Disco have today announced detail of their new full length album, Murmurations. For their fifth record they’ve enlisted the help of Hackney-based collective The Deep Throat Choir, and it drops on 11th May via Wichita Records. The first single to be taken from the record is Caught in a Wave, which creeps into …
Track: Black Moth Super Rainbow – Mr No One
After six years away, Black Moth Super Rainbow are back with a new album, Panic Blooms, out on May 4th, and a new single, Mr No One. They and their mysterious, oft mask-wearing frontman Tobacco have stuck their heads above the Pennsylvania woods they inhabit to record a new set of disorienting, day-glo experimental pop. …
Track: Drugzz – Someone Other Than Me
Drugzz, aka Nashvilles Sam Krager, is set to release his debut single ‘Someone Other Than Me’ via Super Serious Records on March 2nd. Of the track, he says “Someone Other Than Me is a love struggle song. I wrote this song after getting out of an engagement in 2016. My heart was in shambles at …
News: Lonelady reveals Manchester Installation
LONELADY PRESENTS: Scrub Transmissions / TRANSMISSION COMMENCES 18TH FEBRUARY Warp’s LoneLady can now announce a temporary installation project, in which she has embedded an mp3 device into a patch of wasteground in a location on the outskirts of Manchester. A rumination on the built environment, a discreet intervention. This edition takes place in Miles Platting, …
Track: The Body – Nothing Stirs, plus new album details
On May 11th, 2018, The Body will release their most ambitious album to date, I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer. On their follow up to 2016’s acclaimed No One Deserves Happiness, the Portland duo of Lee Buford and Chip King conjure the sublime from the unexpected by turning their compositional approach …
Meet: Pål Waaktar-Savoy on Savoy, songwriting and See the Beauty in your drab Hometown
Every song is a puzzle. It isn’t often you get to meet your musical hero, much less one who taught you one of the essential tools of being a writer. Pål Waaktar-Savoy is the quiet, talented one in A-ha, who wrote or co-wrote the most of their hits. I was thrilled to meet him and …
Album Review : worriedaboutsatan’s ‘Shift’
U.K.-based worriedaboutsatan are all about digging into the unknown and making something out of that darkness. There are elements of techno, dance, ambient, and heavy atmosphere in their work, with all of their musical voodoo coming to ahead on 2016s Blank Tape, their 3rd full-length. From that breakthrough record, the Yorkshire duo headed into the studio …
See: Wu-Lu reveals new video for Jaybo
It’s been a couple of years since South London producer/multi-instrumentalist Wu-Lu released his breakthrough Ginga EP, but he’s returned with new musi. In the shape of a single, Jaybo. It’s this woozy quasi-italio soundtrack, characterised by Wu-Lu’s ethereal yet soulful delivery over this echoey, psychedelic sounding backing. Check out the accompanying video, here