Gruth’s blackened electronics have been festering in the underground over a few releases now, with his roles listed as “black arts, misanthropy and abhorrence” on his Bandcamp profile. Brazil-based finnish producer Juha Puuperä has released […]
Category: Album review
‘Loving atonal shards’ on new PLOM EP
The latest release on Danish label FLUF is another unwavering dispatch from the outskirts of electronic music, this time from PLOM, aka Barcelona-based producer Pau Magrané Figuera. Actual bio details are sketchy enough, but PLOM’s website […]
If I Think of Germany at Night: A rare film that captures the art of techno
Holy Moly, a documentary about techno that isn’t shite. In fact it’s good. Actually strike that, it’s artistic, and would probably engage those without even a passing interest in the music until the end. This […]
It’s all just a game, I hope: Karel Fialka – Hey Matthew (1987)
In 1987, my Ma bought me the double cassette of Now That’s What I call Music Vol 10 as a Christmas present. I had my favourites – M/A/A/R/S, Billy Idol, ABC, Pet Shop Boys, Jan […]
‘It’s not in the algorithms’: Jenny Hval – The Long Sleep
On a recent Nuts and Bolts podcast on the Quietus, Jenny Hval recalled being “heartbroken” at her early live reviews when she’d be described as a singer-songwriter, with all the reductive worthiness the term evokes. […]
Relentless despair: The Body’s I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer
The Body’s Chip King maybe has the most terrifying howl of anyone in metal’s outer limits. True, extreme black metal acts like Gnaw their Tongues and Jute Gyte are polluting Bandcamp with their brilliant festering […]
The Earth moves, slowly: Dylan Carlson – Conquistador
Even if you don’t always judge a book by its cover, you know where you’re going with a Dylan Carlson track title. A few weeks before the release of Conquistador, Carlson revealed the track ‘Scorpions […]
