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A muscular form of ambient: Near Dark (Gideon Wolf)

01/10/2015

Emotional complexity and implied narrative - Gideon Wolf's ambient electronica has heart...

Cold Soup?! Get Stuffed! It’s Vertical Salad. Gazpacho

02/08/2015

Gazpacho is, potentially, a cornerstone of the vegetable juice purge diet, with the rare novelty of actually being delicious....

The Homely Path through Chaotic Woods (Nostos)

31/07/2015

A collection of musical pieces which disturb, wrongfoot, disorient and occasionally attack the listener, whilst still being peppered with the ghost of expected song structures ...

Crank Thy Humbuckers – Ratatat Release Magnifique

17/07/2015

Mahoosive dynamics, the customary duelling guitar chops, and surf drums pulling everything together. Air guitar and dancefloor screwface, in one handy pack. Cribbens!...

Rills, fills and dirty drum machines. Unravel (Bendejo)

05/07/2015

Owes as much to the mechanics of dub as to the sequencing of techno, with dub's technique of using a looped passage to overwrite the 4/4 time structure driving the low-end beats....

Cleaning ladies also experience the sublime (Aine O’Dwyer)

16/06/2015

Where Scarlatti or Bach strove to elevate the consciousness with uplifting symmetrical counterpoint, O'Dwyer reaches into a slightly different church music tradition...

Death in the Afternoon : Political Slaughter in Spain

28/05/2015

Personal charisma, rockstar presentation and the common touch may indeed be a successful formula for political power....

Parting the Veil of Sylvanian Fantasy [Crystal Bright & The Silver Hands]

17/05/2015

Bright's voice, if a touch brittle, is faultless in pitch, soaring in keening arabesques through what must (surely) be the entire range of anguish...

Big bangs, pulsars, black holes and supernovas [Fujako]

16/04/2015

Off-key gamelan clangs, swarming keyboards and pitch-slowed kickdrums hammer that recurring distopian atmosphere home...

Integration and interrelation between the orchestral and the electronic [Michael Price]

12/03/2015

As an exercise in demonstrating the possibilities of digital/orchestral enmeshment, Entanglement is at the top table. ...

Composing With Particle Interactions. How Does the Invisible Sound?

04/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere is a lot going on in Q07, particularly for a record which qualifies wholeheartedly as ambient noodling. Thanks to the obliging...

High Definition sonic adventures: Joe Snape in 24-Bit

25/02/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”N/dropcapaysayers love to make sweeping judgements about 24-bit sound reproduction. The physical capabilties of the human ear provide a...

Manns’ slightly plain voice is flawless, but uninspired.

19/02/2015

There are some moderately engaging, essentially pleasant, songs on the album. Actually, they all are....

Fogh Depot [Album]

12/02/2015

This is brooding jazz with an electronic twist or, if you prefer, brooding electronica with a jazz twist....

Don’t Slap Her, She’s Pretty!

15/01/2015

Girls who want to avoid being clobbered should aim to be tall, blonde and pretty. Does the 'Slap Her!' video send out the wrong message? ...

Music : Did We Even Like it Anyway?

10/01/2015

Why is the music industry failing? Perhaps it’s just that most folk never really liked it much anyway....

Scott Laudati : Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair [Poetry]

11/12/2014

Between the suburbs and the city, and all that they stand for in Laudati's oeuvre, there is the ever-present fear not of age itself, but of fading away rather than burning out...

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Trick or Treat! A Celebration of Samhain

30/10/2014

It is the festival of Samhain from whence our contemporary experience of Hallowe'en stems...

Uneri : Fluvial Benevolence of Womanity

22/10/2014

Art's ever-disputed purpose chokes, regurgitates and, eventually, masticates the fabric of society to emulsified pap, thus palatable to the prolish hordes....

Monomyth : Further

20/09/2014

Gusty keyboard swells, reel-like lead guitar figures and crescendo-borne power riffs building seemingly unstoppable momentum until they, well, stop....

Trioscapes : Digital Dream Sequence

05/08/2014

Throbs with a primal, sweaty and utterly invigorating energy that transcends jazz, funk, metal or rock...

This is Not a Book About Gavin Turk

07/07/2014

By expounding upon Turk's themes, recurrences and symbolic obsessions, a profile develops which is, enchantingly, acres more telling than a full-frontal biographic assault...

Taylor McFerrin : Early Riser

22/05/2014

Wringing a sense of soul, warmth and jazz-like complexity out of sequencing, samples, sidechains and good old organic musicanship...

Summer Cooking : Mayonnaise

13/05/2014

Onwards, to the savoury custard of kings....

Geoff Thompson : The Caretaker

05/05/2014

Were it not for occasional cultural references or linguistic signposts, The Caretaker could indeed be mistaken for an established liturgical text....

Kelis : Food

19/04/2014

An album that keeps its powder dry, thrills and teases, and on vocal performances such as 'Biscuits n' Gravy', enthrals. Kelis, Food. Review...

Teebs : Estara

04/04/2014

Mandowa stamps his musical signature onto the record, weaving a living, breathing album of songs with none of the icy clinical detachment that might be expected of a producer's album....

Mike Vallely : On Not Being Broken

26/03/2014

Action-sports megacorporations duly demonized, Vallely takes to the appropriately bleak and inhuman streets of Berlin....

A picture of commemorative UK coins with Kitchener

An Emotive Wartime Journey. Yours for £2

04/01/2014

That the Royal Mint Advisory Committee chose to commemorate that 'emotive wartime journey' with the iconic image of Lord Kitchener should come as no surprise....

Alan De Niro : Tyrannia

27/12/2013

The value of De Niro's writing is not in what is depicted but in tone, theme, and the disconcerting mood of the short pieces as they seed doubts and second-guesses in the reader. ...

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