Outside of music, the broad stroke headline to take away from 2018 is that it’s a general shitshow, with Brexit and White House calamities stinking up the place. Luckily there were plenty of angry records […]
Julia Holter’s constant reinvention
Julia Holter’s latest album Aviary opens with Turn the Lights On – a wall of sound that sounds like a passage in a Swans song when they’re in full transcendent mode. And it gets more […]
All the right noises: November 2018 in 21 tracks
Mumdance – Teachers A timely update of Daft Punk’s classic shout-out track of the same name — and if you’ve done your Homework you’ll get all the rave references. While the French duo listed heroes […]
Low Sea: Like the Drive soundtrack reimagined by Mazzy Star
Ireland-based duo Low Sea cast a dusky coldwave dream pop spell on their third album Portals, out this month after years on hiatus. The album is another dip into wispy synths, high-fret post-punk basslines and […]
Don’t expect a safe space at a Lauryn Hill show
The 1998 album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is one of the all-time classics — but it’s also an album that Hill ran from for nearly 20 years. It’s a classic crossover record that blurs […]
Ulrich Schnauss: Been there, drone that
German producer Ulrich Schnauss has been making outlier electronic music for around 20 years, with a droney ambience that recalls the more delicate passages of Tim Hecker or Brian Eno. Earlier albums channelled floaty Tangerine […]
Christine and the Queens: Getting to the art of pop
French artist Heloise Letissier takes the art of pop music seriously, saying her new album Chris is an attempt to “give justice to being someone complex in the pop world”. Her second record as Christine […]
