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 […]
Category: Album review
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 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 […]
Mouse On Mars’ Dimensional People feels a bit… 2D
Amid all the obituaries and tributes after Mark E Smith’s death, there wasn’t enough love for his team-up with Mouse On Mars as Von Südenfed. The trio’s 2007 album Tromatic Reflexxions is an industrial-glitch master […]
Enter the void: Another Exhibition at the Modern Institute
In a recent interview, Mute Records boss Daniel Miller made a point that “electronic music was more punk than punk rock”, and Powell’s Diagonal label is hammering this point home. Diagonal acts like Consumer Electronics, […]
Premiere: Zoid’s Nebulous Concrete is a jazzy Braindance odyssey
Zoid’s vague bio tells us he “grew up in Dublin in the 90s listening to techno and jazz”, and there’s not much else to go on. Listening to his latest release Nebulous Concrete you’d guess […]
Bruised and battered art-rock: Zed Penguin – A Ghost, A Beast
It’s a cliche because it’s true – no good music is made without a struggle. Compare the Wu-Tang Clan’s nervy, feral debut 36 Chambers to the Disney rap of A Better Tomorrow, or anything Metallica […]
Sharp and slithery synthesis from NYZ on FLUF Records
There’s nothing stripped-back about minimalist electronic label FLUF’s output over the last few months. This new one from NYZ is the Swedish label’s ninth digital EP release since the end of September, and a recent interview […]
This time it Burns: The Soft Moon – Criminal
In 2009 Trent Reznor started selling all his gear on eBay after he announced Nine Inch Nails were “waving goodbye” to touring – a promise he thankfully broke a few years later. On the Soft […]
No one knows whose friend he is: Kissing The Pink – Big Man Restless (1983)
The Big Man Restless by Kissing the Pink is one of the most deceptively bonkers pop singles of the 80s — a cult hit that appears on the odd DJ mix but wouldn’t get a mention […]
Recalling LCD Soundsystem’s debut on its 13th birthday
A few decades before one US regime declared a war on terror, America’s white rock’n’roll vanguard initiated conflict on a “type of soul-based dance music” that just wasn’t man enough. In 1979, possibly inspired by […]
More confounding electronics from ‘computer hooligans’ EVOL
Swedish label FLUF has started 2018 as you know they’ll go on – with another example of next-gen electronics, sound-designed to the nth degree. The label, run by producer tuuun, is populating Bandcamp with avant-garde […]
Serene ambience on The Black Dog’s Forgemasters: Shards Ov Light
Warp Records techno OGs The Black Dog have opened 2018 with their most serene ambient release yet – which has sadly turned into a sort of tribute to filmmaker Shaun Bloodworth, who died in hospital […]
