electronic albums
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 …
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 …
Album Review: Roosevelt – Roosevelt
Pulling together elements of what, in much simpler and easier to categorise times, was referred to as ‘Dance’ and ‘electro’ music, (these days increasingly muffled and obscured by sub sections dreamed up by teenagers who rarely leave their bedrooms) Roosevelt, aka producer Marius Lauber, brings a little bit of German efficiency and European swagger to …
Album Review: Of Montreal – Innocence Reaches
Kevin Barnes has played many roles in his nearly 20 year music career. There was the folksy pop guy, the jilted lover, the struggling husband and father, the party monster, the transvestite hooker, the avante garde composer, and the rock and roll warrior. But the role Barnes plays best is Kevin Barnes. The guy that’s …
Not Forgotten: Vernon Elliott – Clangers: Original Television Music
Do you remember when a group of knitted pink miniature aardvarks to rocked your world? More action-packed than Bagpuss, cooler than Chorlton and the Wheelies, more psychedelic than Jamie and The Magic Torch and less mainstream than The Wombles, when it came to kids TV in my early youth, only the incomparable Danger Mouse rocked …
Album Review: Lou Rhodes – Theyesandeye
It’s been ten years since Lamb released their stirring electronic anthem ‘Gorecki’. Their dark, genre bending sound put them up with their contemporaries of the time; Massive Attack, Tricky, and Portishead. It was very much the sound of the time, but they did it differently and created something above and beyond what anyone else was …
Album Review: MSTRKRFT – Operator
So let me start out by saying I’m not an aficionado when it comes to electronica. I’m really just an outsider looking in that finds himself drawn to the beats and noisy synths. I feel EDM, techno, and house music like I feel jazz, hip hop, and classical music; that is to say I feel …
Cliff Martinez : The Neon Demon S/T
I think the first movie soundtrack that made a real impact on me was The Exorcist. Nope, it wasn’t Star Wars, Superman, or Raiders of the Lost Ark. Hell, it wasn’t even Halloween. The first one that made a visceral impact on me was “Tubular Bells” by Mike Oldfield from The Exorcist S/T. As a …