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Jon Hopkins: Singularity
Smashed beats so metallic you can almost taste the blood. Jon Hopkins kills it with Singularity (read more)
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Distressed, Dirty, Disfunctional: Roma Zuckerman
Dirty, dysfunctional minimalism confuses and fascinates simultaneously (read more)
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From Me To You (Steven Rutter)
How does a futuristic vision hold up when time passes? Very well, in Steven Rutter’s case (read more)
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Shamanic Falterings Amongst the Valleys of Tone
Musician Ben Frost meanders at the ICA 2017 (read more)
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Blush Response (Interview)
‘I don’t know what a Berlin album is but it’s definitely a me album’ (read more)
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How do you know if you’ve never tasted it?
Search unfriendly Duran Duran Duran release another epic milestone in belligerent music (read more)
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Pact Infernal on Stroboscopic Artefacts (Monad XXV)
Architectural depth and space, dark sonics, incantatory beats – Stroboscopic Artefacts produce the goods once more (read more)
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Battle Standards (Talker)
Cold, then colder still. Talker emboss style and character onto the electronic music mileu (read more)
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Resisting Cosy Nostalgia at the Science Museum (Radiophonic Workshop, live)
Traversing a temporal and cultural fault-line between then and now (read more)
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Broken Beats, Split Personalities: Stranger (Joanne Pollock)
Frosty and frantic – there are two sides to the iceberg that is Joanne Pollock’s debut (read more)
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Part Time Punks Sessions (Inhalt)
Is contemporary artists carrying on the electronic traditions of the 1980s: a cultural ourobouros or just clean fun? (read more)
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Music shouldn’t be easy to listen to: Lisbon Kid (Interview)
Lisbon Kid talk sounds, scenery and saudades (read more)
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Demands will be placed on the Listener. Bitter Music (Perc)
Perc’s Bitter Music is stylistically labyrinthine, full of murky passages and the occasional dead end (read more)
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Joy and Division: Peter Hook (Interview)
Peter Hook talks New Order, Joy Division and women in yoghurt. (read more)
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Cabaret Voltaire Go Deep Into The Devil’s Arse (and invite you to join them)
Solid electronica with provenance… from the depths of a Derbyshire cave (read more)
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Inexorable Implosions, Ominous Promise: Grebenstein
Simultaneously sobering and intoxicating decelerationist post-techno (read more)
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Outside of the music, it’s a little quiet…. Dead Light (Interview)
Dead Light, makers of 2016’s intricate electro/ambient/classical apogee, discuss their debut album. (read more)
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Balloons, A Bob, Beth Orton (live at Kentish Town Forum)
Sparkly and statuesque, Beth Orton ushers a folktronic breeze through the Forum (read more)
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Staring into the Eye of the Soundscape (Riverside)
Forging on after the death of guitarist Piotr Grudziński, Riverside continue to intrigue (read more)
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Snare Drum Love: Interview (Le Spectre)
Le Spectre’s Yann Levasseur talks about simply trying to be creative and dark (read more)
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Music For the Missus? The Pale (William Control)
Tortured delvings into the 80s synthpop palette for the first of a four EP collection (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Nite Jewel
Icy intensity and liquid cool. Nite Jewel at the Jazz Cafe, London. Photos (read more)
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Sharp Synths and Sweet Beats at the Jazz Cafe (Nite Jewel)
Ballerina deportment, Existential composure, and a swathe of lo-fi grooves. Nite Jewel at the Jazz Cafe (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Peter Hook and the Light
A duel of personalities, That stretch all true realities. Peter Hook and the Light at the Forum. Photos (read more)
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Overwhelming and Almost Annihilating Awe: Dark Matter (Lustmord)
Lustmord draws upon an audio library of cosmological activity to confront us with deep, cosmic time (read more)
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Manifesto for a Future Sonic Programme: Mugako (J.C. )
J.C. delivers abstract and ominous techno soundscapes with a political edge (read more)
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Becoming Aware (Paradigm Shift)
With forward-looking approach to progressive rock, Paradigm Shift avoid the cliches. Review (read more)
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SHXCXCHCXSH SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs (Yes, really)
Genuinely memorable music, if a difficult name to remember – Swedish duo SHXCXCHCXSH release SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs (read more)
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Relentless Euphoria on Halocline Trance? (Limit EP)
An oddly sequenced release, but one that definitely has intriguing and powerful elements. Review (read more)
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Crystal Dwarf (KOMORA A)
Mysterious, focussed, disciplined. Komora A put some backbone into ambient. (read more)