Electronic
Track: Tidelines – Gaze (re:edit)
After meeting by chance in London, and bonding despite being complete opposites, Niomi and Kailin aka Tidelines have released a re:edit of their track Gaze ahead of a free show at London’s Social on 6th December. The South London boy/girl duo were both London born, but grew up in different parts of the world – …
Track: Silent Riders – I see you
Masked Copenhagan based trio Silent Riders are about to released their debut single ‘I see you’, out on January 6th. Its taken from their debut album, which is expected out sometime in the new year. There’s a slightly motorik vibe about ‘I see you’, and features at its heart lead singer Lu’s dusky vocal. Underneath …
EP: Victor Norman – Hymn
Some nice laid back action here with DJ and producer Victor Norman. The Hymn EP is a warm deep-house/techno welcome to the coming winter months. Hymn sets off with simple beats and a mellow floating piano line, building up slowly with some well executed percussion and melody and with the introduction of a Gregorian type chant vocal it …
News: Brian Eno To Release New Album ‘Reflection’
On January 1st, 2017 Brian Eno will release a new ambient double LP called Reflection via Warp Records. Reflection is a follow-up to this year’s The Ship. According to Eno: “Reflection is so called because I find it makes me think back. It makes me think things over. It seems to create a psychological space …
Album Review: analogue creatures living on an island – Immersion
The ambient project of Wire’s Colin Newman (along with his partner Malka Spigel from Minimal Compact) has been in existence since 1994, and after a hiatus of seventeen years, Immersion is back. Pre-album release track ‘Fireflys’ is a beautiful, hypnotic vortex of arpeggios and repetitive synth loops, rising and falling and washing over the listener. …
Album Review: Brad Laner – Micro-Awakenings
Brad Laner is one of the most creative musical minds you’ve probably never heard of. He’s a California guy that’s been deep in the experimental music scene since the mid-80s. From cassette excursions with Debt of Nature and Steaming Coils, to the monumental noise pop provocateurs Medicine in the late 80s and early 90s, to …
Album Review: Cellophane Garden – Illuminations
When you think of a musician holed up in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas creating music amongst those storied wooded hills, the sound that comes to mind is a particular one. That sound probably isn’t of the atmospheric and spatial variety, but more of the old time-y, bluegrass variety. In fact spatial, atmospheric, dreamy, and …
Album Review: Ashley Bellouin – Ballads
After the needle drops on Ashley Bellouin’s debut album titled Ballads you know right away this isn’t going to be a sappy collection of odes to lovers and significant others. The pastoral drone of harmonium, glass armonica, and other assorted spectral toys hit your ears and seem to open a portal that leads into some …
Album Review Mac Quale – Mr. Robot Original Soundtrack
For the longest time TV shows just bored me. I felt that TV had become this vacuous void where art and commerce said “F*ck it, let’s take a dump on the viewing public and see how long it takes them to say anything.” Of course the only “art” involved was the art of selling. Not …
Track: Von Sell – Miss Me
Miss Me is the new single from New York electro-pop artist Von Sell, taken from his self-titled EP, which is out this month, and follows on from the much lauded ‘names’, which hit #1 in the Hype Machine charts. The son of Israeli singer Esther Ofarim and German filmmaker Philipp von Sell, his destiny was …