Electronic
Track: Cubicolor – Fictionalise
Having already seemingly become the darlings of the alternative airwaves, garnering support from Tom Ravenscroft, Namone, Steve Lamacq and the legendary Pete Tong, Cubicolor – aka Dutch producers Ariaan Olieroock and Peter Kriek, along with former Duologue frontman Tim Digby-Bell, release their debut album Brainsugar this coming Friday (16th September) on the influential Anjunadeep label. …
Track: M83 – Roadblaster
After garnering much praise and admiration for his new album Junk, which fused together old school house sounds and synthesised vocals into his ambitious prog-pop, M83 aka Anthony Gonzalesz has announced that one of the albums stand out tracks, Roadblaster is to be released as a single on November 18th. Built on this brassy but …
See: Krrum reveals video for Still Love, announces live dates
Following on his debut EP, Evil Twin, which came out on the 37 Adventures imprint, Leeds based producer Krrum (named after a meat rub from his days working in butchery in Derbyshire) has wasted no time in releasing a new single, Still Love. More soulful that the neon glow of previous single Hard on You, …
Album Review: Stillhound – Bury Everything
Stillhound have spent years immersing themselves in their music, and their homeland, to form a sparkling diamond of a debut album. This Edinburgh based trio of Fergus Cook (vocals/guitar), Laurie Corlett-Donald (synths/guitar) and Dave Lloyd (synths) – joined by drummer Cat Myers for this record (also of Honeyblood) – started making music together at high …
Album Review: Kishi Bashi – Sonderlust
Singer. Songwriter. Violinist. Producer. Multi-instrumentalist. All words I should be using to describe Kaoru Ishibashi AKA Kishi Bashi. But to me I can describe him simply as a creator of beautiful things. I first became aware of his work on the release of his song ‘Manchester’; a song about writing a novel. Lyrically it stood head …
Track: Empathy Test – Demons/Seeing Stars
There’s something really enigmatic about London-based electronic duo Empathy Test. Even without listening to a note, there is a lot of mystery attached to the art work that accompanies previous releases ‘Throwing Stones’ and ‘Losing Touch’. Aesthetics are obviously an important factor to them as a band, and on listening, the emotive and cinematic sound they …
Track: Stillhound – Time Enough For Love
Stillhound ensure that you make time for their catchy electro-pop with new single ‘Time Enough For Love’. The Edinburgh trio of Fergus Cook, Laurie Corlett-Donald and Dave Lloyd – joined by Cat Myers (also of Honeyblood) on drums – have pooled their various influences and a shared love of their homeland to create their brand of …
Album Review: Stranger Things S/T Volume One : Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein
I can’t remember the last time something enthralled the public’s eyes and ears like Netflix’ Stranger Things has. Maybe the Macarena? Or the Blue Collar Comedy Tour? The Pam and Tommy Lee sex tape? Regardless, none of those things lived up to the hype that preceded them, except for Stranger Things. This is a show …
Album Review: LTO – The Number From Which All Things Come
Bristol based musician LTO has released his debut album ‘The Number From Which All Things Come’ the title refers to the numerology of the number 10, 10 was described by Agrippa (an ancient Roman occult writer) as a complete figure marking the full course of life, he also attributed the number to a sense of totality and end achievement……for …
Album Review: Warhaus – We Fucked a Flame into being
Essentially the solo project of Maarten Devoldere of the Belgian group Balthazar, We Fucked a Flame into being (a direct quote from Lady Chatterley’s lover) see’s Devoldere abandon some of the dark, editors like indie rock for dark, at times intimate pop/torch music, that references the likes of Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg …