experimental pop
Track/ Video : Avant pop experimentalist Kee Avil previews gripping new album ‘Spine’ with the tense and tactile ‘Felt’.
Two years ago Montreal producer Kee Avil’s debut for Constellation ‘Crease’ caused quite a rumpus with its avant-pop mosaicism, all intricate vocal, sound and instrument patterns set within an experimental glue and deceptive song structure. Bandcamp made ‘Crease’ album of the day and year-end lister, Mojo pinned on four-star acclaim and The Quietus were rightly …
Premiere: salamander prep debut album & share ‘the label’
Ready for a new song from New York trio salamander? Duck yeah we are. The band announced their debut album [container] back in August, and we’re now just a fortnight away from its release. Yes, they’re releasing it on a Wednesday – good idea because then everyone gets to take it in before the absolute …
Track/Video : Percussionist/producer Ben Sloan, previews the sweeping ‘Philistine’ from incoming ‘muted colors live’ EP.
Percussionist and producer Ben Sloan looks set to continue his confident step out into the spotlight with an incoming second release, the EP ‘muted colors live’, due 27th October via NY’s New Amsterdam Records. Sloan’s decade plus as collaborator and contributor, drumming with the likes of Moses Sumney, Beth Orton, WHY? and The National, may …
Premiere: salamander share ‘xylem’, announce debut album for October
We’ll have what they’re having because we’re very excited about this band. Say hello to New York trio salamander, which took shape when PJ Hunter and Leo Frampton were asked to play a last-minute experimental pop show at college in 2019. They took a thread and ran with it, bringing drummer Ben Verde along for …
Album Review: Fågelle – ‘Den svenska vreden’: Experimental, poetic songs of inner rage and soaring beauty.
It’s no lazy shortcut to describe Fågelle’s arresting new album as ‘quivering with rage’ as this phrase captures the record’s emotional complexity with chilling accuracy. ‘Den svenska vreden’, available now on Medication Time Records, finds experimental dark pop communicator Klara Andersson (aka Fågelle) expressing her own seething inner tensions in songs of raw beauty and …
News/Track/Video: Experimental pop artist Fågelle previews ‘Kroppen’ from incoming new album ‘Den svenska vreden’, a dark, poetic song of rage and beauty.
Ahead of her new album ‘Den svenska vreden’ (released on 27th January via Medication Time) the Swedish experimental rock and dark pop communicator Fågelle has just revealed a third preview track Kroppen. Following on from the elevating electronic surge of Kar i vem som heist and Ingenting’s delicate grandeur, Kroppen extends the dynamic with a …
Album Review: Lia Hide – The Missing Fourth Guest
Greek avant-pop artist Lia Hide has made a name for herself across Europe for her unique approach to experimental blending dark, electronic production with her soaring vocals. The new album ‘The Missing Fourth Guest’ released via Conch Town Records showcases some of her finest work to date with a series of jazz infused electronic-pop soundscapes …
Feature: Susanna gives us a track by track on beautiful new album Elevation
Norwegian arstist Susanna (aka Susanna Wallumrød), has always pushed boundaries, searched for different angles and combined different aspects of art into her work. Thats seen her interpret poetry and art, as well as give a fresh take on songs; her take on Purcell’s early English Opera aria ’When I am laid (in Earth) still sends …
See: The smeary dessert action painting of Blurry the Explorer’s ‘Limited By Jelly’
BLURRY THE EXPLORER is a quirkily beguiling new art-rock project oozing outta Brooklyn with experimental composer, drummer, and photographer Jeremy Gustin, aka The Ah, at the helm. They’ve just released their second shortform missive, the Brothers Grimm-meets-Broadcast hallucination of “Limited By Jelly”, the video for which you can be wholly intrigued by below. It sees …
Track: Sturle Dagsland shares surreal and intriguing single – Blot
Norwegian Sturle Dagsland, is the self titled project of the experimental-pop/Avant-rock singer Sturle Dagsland together with his brother Sjur. Ahead of the release of his self titled debut album, due 5th February, Dagsland has shared the single ‘Blot’. “Blot was/is a blood sacrifice ritual in Norse Paganism to honour the Norse gods,” explains Sturle. “The sacrifice would often …