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 […]
Author: Conor McCaffrey
Sansibar makes some Finnish EBM-techno noise on White Swan
Helsinki producer Sansibar has been turning the dial in recent years, flitting between trip-hop, dark techno and even lo-fi punk as Shoplift – but hopefully he doesn’t change the station after hitting a bullseye with […]
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 […]
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 […]
John Grant’s an avant-garde pop weirdo hiding in plain sight
On his 2018 album Love Is Magic, John Grant fully indulges the electronic quirks and avant-garde left-turns that made up much of his previous album Grey Tickles, Back Pressure. But Grant’s fourth album also ditches […]
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 […]
‘Tomorrow’s music and ideas’: Who to check out at Tallinn Music Week 2019
On the weekend of March 29 when a collective facepalm spreads around Europe over Brexit, at least one city will be fuelled by an inclusive, open-door international ethos, as Tallinn Music Week once again hits […]
For the record: The sound and vision of Eamonn Doyle’s Dublin
Few artists in the early days of techno had a long-term projection, aside from an abstract idea they were making the music of the future. Legacies were for classic rock bands, and even a 10-year […]
The Armed keep flipping hardcore
The Armed call themselves a “punk rock band from Detroit, Michigan” on their Bandcamp page, but they’re selling themselves short. The band take hardcore rage as a starting point and wrangle in atonal electronics, noise-rock […]
Interview: Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley on the enduring legacy of Daydream Nation
One of the defining music documentaries of the 90s was 1991: The Year That Punk Broke, which captured noise-rock pioneers Sonic Youth on tour in Europe in 1991 with a rising young band called Nirvana. […]
Deconstruction time again: Massive attack tear apart their masterpiece Mezzanine
In the hysterical climate of retromania, band reunions and anniversary tours, it’s easy to forget the albums that actually deserve the adulation. In recent times we’ve had 10-year anniversary tours of indie detritus bands such […]
Operation Daybreak: Obscure war film with a killer synth score (1975)
It’s good having a wide circle of heads to slip you good music, but this is the first tip-off I’ve ever got in my granny’s house having a cup of tea. I was caught off […]
Broken rules: Neneh Cherry’s still a restless maverick
Neneh Cherry has just won a Swedish Grammi Award – with her latest LP Broken Politics winning Best Electronic Album of the Year. It’s a quick reminder that she’s actually Swedish, even though she’s left […]
Journey man: The story behind Michael O’Shea’s mystic folk masterpiece
Like many great legends, the story behind one of Irish music’s most revered cult records starts with a door. Not some metaphorical passageway, but an actual busted door that travelling folk musician Michael O’Shea dragged […]
Gum Takes Tooth’s “what-the-fuck aural mesmerism”
London duo Gum Takes Tooth are a self-described “two-man everything machine endlessly seeking what-the-fuck aural mesmerism”, and they suit the hyperbole. The pair’s third album Arrow is a snarly, wired-up tangle of rusty electronics skuzzy […]
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