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Track: Lastigband observes the heavens in the sweet lo-fi ‘tronica of ‘Galaxy’
RECORDIAU CAE GWYN RECORDS is one of those labels doing the good work; like Come Play With Me way, way east across Offa’s Dyke in Leeds, it’s a label fiercely focussed on the musics arising from its immediate hinterland, in this case Snowdonia; panning the musical streams and sifting the nuggets of gold to bring …
News: New Mute songsmith Quinquis drops the noir electro of ‘Adkrog’, reveals 37-date European tour
DANIEL MILLER’S independent mainstay Mute have revealed the latest addition to an already diverse and dazzling stable; and that signing comes in the shape of Quinquis, the new project of Yann Tiersen’s wife and former Tiny Feet chanteuse Émilie Tiersen. As Tiny Feet, Émilie released a brace of albums of rather gorgeous, complex Francophone pop …
Track: Jacana People – ‘And The Lake Was …’: a masterful lope of electronica atmospheres with Neil Cowley at the keys
IF YOU’RE a fan of the leftfield musics, ambient and textural and nuanced, whatever its provenance, be it modern compositional or electronic or anywhere through the ultraviolets and infrareds along the spectrum between them both, then one of the artists involved in this new single you’ll likely be au fait with; the other, perhaps less …
Track: Pick A Piper – ‘Parakram’: Caribou’s Brad Weber returns to his own bedazzling breaks atmospheres with an EP next month
BRAD WEBER, the Toronto-based electronica artist and otherwise member of Dan Snaith’s acclaimed Caribou project, has returned to his personal breaks project, Pick A Piper, with an EP entitled Sea Steps due on the first Friday in December through the good offices of Tin Angel. Pick A Piper have three albums to their name, the …
See: Blue States – ‘Plain Sight’ feat. Rachael Dadd – a step into folktronica from Andy Dragazis ahead of his sixth album
BLUE STATES, the lovely downbeatz project of Sussex’s Andy Dragazis, is following last year’s necessary and expanded repressing of his classic album Nothing Changes Under The Sun with another peek into the world of his new album, his sixth and also first in six years; come inside and twirl with the complex atmospheres of “Plain …
Track: Rival Consoles – ‘I Like’: generative, alienated and conversational, an off-kilter marriage of speech and silicon
RIVAL CONSOLES are on the home straight towards the release of a new dance-collaborative album, Overflow, in the first days of December, and as you’d expect it’s pristine and beautiful while also springing from the well of the leftfield. He’s truly great, one of my top three electronica artists of the moment, along with HAAi, …
Album review: Afternoon Bike Ride – ‘Afternoon Bike Ride’: a magical future pop journey to soothe and seduce a frazzled mind
A MEETING of delicate pop like minds: musician-producers David Tanton (aka Rhoda/Tender Spring), Éloi Le Blanc-Ringuette (aka Thomas White), and Lia Kurihara (aka LIA) met on the fertile Montréalais music scene in 2018, began to share and mesh ideas, and formed Afternoon Bike Ride – and listen up, friends; they’re an absolute delight of hazy, …
See: Sølyst brings a playful, fractured machine-dub-pop with ‘Hold’ ahead of his August album
THOMAS KLEIN, otherwise drummer for the fine post- and krautrock rhythmic venturers Kriedler, also has a natty occasional sideline as Sølyst, wearing which hat he strides out with an album every year or three; August’s Spring will be his fourth album in eleven years, and collates together recordings he’s made over the past three. Not …
The brilliant Rival Consoles drops the echoing summer chatter of ‘Pulses Of Information’ and announces live dates
WITH a series of British live dates coming up across the autumn – for details of those, pop down the page a little – the brilliant Ryan Lee West, aka Rival Consoles, has dropped a new summery slice of his characteristically chattering, atmospheric electronica; it’s entitled “Pulses Of Information”, and you can delight in it …
News: Andy Bell announces his GLOK debut album proper; dive into the electro gleam of ‘Maintaining The Machine’
HAVING released a series of vinyl format singles, the Ever Decreasing Circles triptych, following his superb album from last autumn for Sonic Cathedral, The View From Halfway Down, and also last year’s Dissident Remixed set of rerubs from his electronic alter-ego GLOK, Andy Bell has proved himself as industrious as he is ever curious and …