ALBUM REVIEW: The Twilite Tone – ‘The Clearing’: crisp future electro breaks
If you were ever seduced by Mo’Wax when it was truly great, this is totally the album for you. Casting references towards multifarious Black musics, all laced up with deep thought and intelligence, it has breaks that get deep under your skin. Irresistible.
ALBUM REVIEW: Andy Bell – ‘The View From Halfway Down’: superb psych-pop solo set
The View From Halfway Down is an eclectic and heady mix of psych, folk, tronica, baggy looseness and more – and nary puts a foot wrong. An absolutely excellent solo set
NEWS: Oneohtrix Point Never announces October album; hear the prelude suite
DANIEL LOPATIN, the boundary-pushing New York producer behind the Oneohtrix Point Never moniker, has announced a new album with Bridget Riley-style eye-dazzling cover art – and equally potent and bewitching sonics contained within. Magic Oneohtrix Point Never will be with us on October 30th on Warp, and keeps the conceptual flow going. 2018’s acclaimed Age …
SEE: The beautiful visuals for Ólafur Arnalds’ ‘Woven Song’
ÓLAFUR ARNALDS is preparing for his new album, some kind of peace, to hit turntables across the world on November 6th; and he’s followed the beautiful noir of previous single-track teasers “Back To The Sky” and “We Contain Multitudes” with another stunning audiovisual drop in “Woven Song”; let yourself be dazzled down at the end. …
TRACK: Machinedrum feat. Father – ‘Spin Blocks’: glimmering lyrical flow ahead of the new album
MACHINEDRUM, the Ninja Tune artist who delights in pulling hiphop, electro, R’n’B, grime and other such musics into curious new shapes, is releasing his first album in four years and his ninth in total for beats purveyors extraordinaire Ninja Tune next Friday. And he’s dropped a little taster of the new album, A View Of …
SEE: Molly Millions – ‘Ketamine Jass’: conceptual future dixieland protests drug laws
COMING at us outta Berlin wrapped in an enigma, but toting a very clear message of the personal-political, Molly Millions, the Berlin-based electronic producer, has shared the video for “Ketamine Jass”, taken from her debut EP, MDLA, which is out now digitally on Pill Press Records in a joint venture with Mute. If you thought Jockstrap were appealing …
TRACK: Alex Jayne – ‘Clouds’: acoustic pop details the moment you notice it’s all changed
ALEX JAYNE, the London songwriter who we last heard of coolly observing the world from a late-night taxi on “Backseat”, has returned with a new single, the intelligent pure pop of “Clouds”. She’s got such an adept eye for seeing how life is; her new single spots the clouds in the sky which, like a …
TRACK: Felid – ‘Take It Off’: a steamy pop grind
LEAVING the shores of cool electropop duo Mauwe to strike out on his own, Bristol-based, South African-born singer, songwriter and producer Felid (pronounced with a long ‘e’) has unveiled the steamy grooves of his debut single “Take It Off” today. Take a listen below. Combining leftfield, lazy hiphop breaks with a slow, sweltering hip-grind of a tale …
TRACK: The Native – ‘Break Away’: South West indie risers’ second laments Brexit
PLYMOUTH’S The Native are on an upward curve: they’ve been building a real reputation down in the South West, getting themselves a real fanbase and a name as purveyors of a certain brand of soaring indie guitar rock. Back in August they debuted with the power melodiousness of “Chasing Highs”, written in response to a …
SEE: The video for Mountain Goats’ ‘Get Famous’, their first in five years
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS are primed and ready on the starting grid for the release of their new album, Getting Into Knives, on October 23rd; and for the first time in five years they’ve stepped out in front of a rolling camera and put together a video for the recently released single, “Get Famous”. We dived into “Get …