Electro
Track: Saje – Raspberry
Paris chillwave/RnB duo Saje are releasing a single, Raspberry, the second release taken from their debut EP Freefallin’ Dreams with comes out on January 15th via Roche Musique. It opens with this smoky jazz lick over these icy but static synths. It isn’t long though, before the beat comes in and the lick is given …
Track: Vimes – Mind
Cologne based duo Azhar Syed and Julien Stetter have already toured with the likes of Hot Chip and Crystal Castles and released well received tracks such as Upstairs, Celestial and Entail since meeting back in 2012. Out on 22nd January 2015 is their new single Mind, taken from their debut album ‘Nights In Limbo’ being …
Track: Lucaléy – Dance to the Drum of Our Hearts
Copenhagen based duo Lucaléy, aka Bo Karlsson and Ea Philippa Tange describe their new track, Dance to the Drum of our Hearts as being about “Daring to be who you really are and follow your deepest longing no matter what the outside world may think of it. Follow your own path in life even though …
Track: Drones Club – Soul of a Spaceman
Following shows with HEALTH, the canny people at PMR have snapped up mysterious London collective Drones Club, who state that their starting point is ‘the belief that humans are numbed and alienated by modern structures of control’, and that they want to act as ‘a pan-social solution to the 21st century problem’, and to demand …
Album Review: Majical Cloudz – Are You Alone?
It is 2am on a Monday morning, I am sitting and relaxing in my bed with the windows open and my lights dimmed. I decide to listen to the Magical Cloudz album I’ve been meaning to get around to. I am pleasantly surprised. ‘Disappeared’ is a gorgeous, slow paced starter, in its best moments recalling …
See: VOWWS release new video for Councillor
Brooklyn based VOWWS recently released their latest album The Great Sun. Filled as it is by industrial strength synths and dark pop tendancies, it also featured guest appearances from Gary Numan and Thor Harris of Swans. From it the band has made a video (well, they self-directed, filmed and edited it) for the track Councillor. …
Track: Vimes – Kyra
German duo Vimes have a new track ahead of their “Nights in Limbo” album due in February next year. Starting a lot like LFO, Kyra builds into a seven minute squelchy slow burn, backed by synths, industrial fans and mumbled, mournful vocals. A tour is promised in the spring. One to keep an eye out …
Album Review: Dave Gahan & Soulsavers – Angels & Ghosts
As lead-singer of Depeche Mode, Dave Gahan was responsible for some of the greatest albums of the eighties and nineties, taking the dubious accolade of being the biggest band in UK chart history never to have a number one hit. They shifted through genres from their synth-pop sound of the early eighties to the grungier …
Track: Graces – Hepburn
Graces is Steve Harrison, frontman of Cumbrian alt. rock band Over and Out. Since moving to London he’s branched out into new musical pastures, specifically electro-indie project Graces. He’s taken elements of post-rock and swathed it in synths and atmospherics. The first glimpse of this comes in the shape of a single, Hepburn, out on …
See: Jones releases new video for “Indulge”
London electro-R&B artist Jones recently released Indulge, her debut EP to much fawning and critical acclaim. She followed it up by selling our her upcoming live date at St Pancras Old Church in November and appeared on Jools Holland. Now she’s released a new video for the title track of the EP, which will also …