Electronic
Track/Video: Electro-acoustic voyager Mount Maxwell previews the panoramic ‘Sky Eye’ from incoming ‘Littlefolk’ album.
Sonic geographer, Hotham Sound label founder and electronic musician Jamie Tolagson a.k.a Mount Maxwell returns this Autumn to continue a run of gently stunning soundscapes that began with the two part ‘Blue Highways’ (from 2016 to 18), continued with 2019’s ‘Only Children’ and last surfaced with ‘The People’s Forest’ a couple of years ago. His …
Album Review: Slow Knife – A Hymn Supreme
Todmorden experimentalists Slow Knife have returned with a second album, the fully improvised two track long player, A Hymn Supreme. Taking its lead more than likely (as well as half of its title) fromJohn Coltrane opus, it’s explores spiritual jazz, but alongside noise electronics and lyrically explores the ‘authenticity of spiritual transcendence’. Part 1 lies …
Track: Steven Wilson releases a brilliant new track ‘Economies of Scale’ ahead of album release
With his new album The Harmony Codex due at the end of the month on Virgin, Steven Wilson has released a sighter of whats to come from the album in the shape of a single, Economies of Scale. Wilson worked alone on the album in a studio tucked inside the garage of a North London …
Track: Oneohtrix Point Never releases brilliant new track and accompanying video, A Path Barely Lit
As I constantly point out, Warp Records is one of, if not my favourite label. Ever. And one of its most brilliant and interesting artists right now is Oneohtrix Point Never, aka Daniel Lopatin. He’s just shared a first single and video, A Barely Lit Path, from his recently announced new album ‘Again’, which drops …
Tracks: Samba De La Muerte – We Head For
Fronted by Adrien Leprêtre, Eclectic French outfit Samba De La Muerte have returned with their brand new track ‘We Head For’, taken from the upcoming album ‘Ornament’ due the 29th of September. Following on from the recent singles ‘Ornament’ and ‘Memory’, ‘We Head For’ continues Samba De La Muerte’s musical evolution, deftly combining a myriad of styles from …
Track/Video : Justin Walter previews long awaited new album ‘Destroyer’ with the title track’s aching beauty.
Jazz trumpeter and electronic musician Justin Walter is an artist who obviously takes care. It’s been six years since his last for Kranky, the ethereally wonderfilled ‘Unseen Forces’ and before that his debut on the label, ‘Lullabies & Nightmares’ announced itself in 2014. So incoming news of his new album ‘Destroyer’, due 13th October through …
Track: Barry Can’t Swim shares new single How It Feels, plus UK tour dates
Out on 20th October via one of our favourite labels Ninja Tune is the debut album from Edunburgh multi instrumentalist Barry Can’t Swim, and from it is the new single How It Feels, which is out now. The track is actually an exploration of various ideas and experiences Barry faced when writing his very first …
Rock N Roll Circus Sheffield Preview: Noel Gallagher and Self Esteem set to headline
Sheffield is preparing for the homecoming of Self Esteem (AKA Rebecca Lucy Taylor), as she is set to headline Saturday night at Rock N Roll Circus at the city’s Don Valley Bowl. Taylor’s tour last year gained incredible reviews, and the performance is full of style, attitude and unapologetic lyrics. Having already sold out 2 …
Album Review: Brin & Dustin Wong – Texture II : An intense connection of micro-beats and shifting loops with a free jazz spirit.
Imagining the outcome of this collaboration is in many ways a bit of a stretch. First there is guitarist Dustin Wong, in the past a key member of the under-valued Ponytail, who rode the first math-rock wave along with Battles, and more recently an explorer of interwoven guitar pieces, often long form, for Thrill Jockey. …
Track/Video: Basinski’s slinky electro funk combo SPARKLE DIVISION introduce new album ‘Foxy’ with the punchy title track.
If you have seen the seminal electronic musician William Basinski live you will know that he’s far from the experimental scene stereotype, more glamour than gloom, maybe in leather or sparkling suit, gorgeously warm and witty, passionate and performative, a free spirit. That’s where SPARKLE DIVISION come in. Starting as a duo of Basinski and …