“No worries, I am officially nocturnal,” is Phil Hartnoll’s text assuring me it’s OK to call him for an interview at 11pm midweek. Later on, he jokes, “I can’t tell the time anyway”, when I […]
Nothing is forbidden: Tallin Music Week 2019
“Remake / Remodel is the key… not that we haven’t stumbled and fell,” says Ingrid Kohtla, one of the creative minds behind Tallinn Music Week – one of Europe’s most consistently fearless, diverse festivals, in […]
Work in Progress: An interview with Telesonic 9000
There was a time in humanity’s not-so ancient past when progress wasn’t so fraught with self-doubt – conjuring up the naive optimism of the Space Race, computer evolution and civil rights rather than global warming, […]
All the right noises: February & March 2019 in 20 tracks
From long-form ritual ambient, to sick Finnish grindcore, to Japanese brain-fry hip-hop and a love song to an ancient sea sponge living on a dying coral reef, here’s a selection of the best music from […]
GZA’s still in da Front
I‘m not dissing the rest of the Wu-Tang Clan, but GZA is the only member who you could imagine boasting onstage about the number of books he saw with his own eyes in the Trinity […]
Overexposed at the edge of town: Mart Avi – Back 2 Light
There’s something spectral and unearthly about Mart Avi’s avant-garde pop, and he further explores the nocturnal outer limits on his new video for the single Back 2 Light. The song is taken from the Estonian […]
The Internet have finally found it
With a self-sabotaging un-Google-able name and a an open-doors fluctuating policy with members, The Internet don’t always make it easy for themselves. Frontwoman Syd (fka Syd Tha Kyd) also had a rocky enough start as […]
