Signalling the arrival of your new album using an online day-hour-minute-second rolling countdown is a bit conceited, but we can forgive Vitalic. Flashmob is another genre-defying record from the French electro trendsetter, and the chattering […]
Category: Album review
Plenty of added sugar: Hudson Mohawke – Butter
Hip-hop maverick Hudson Mohawke‘s debut album Butter is the aural equivalent of stuffing a full packet of Jelly Tots into your mouth at once. It’s so full of artificial sweeteners and processed ingredients that fans […]
It’s the new mathematics: Antipop Consortium – Fluorescent Black
It’s a relief when MC High Priest boasts that Anti-Pop Consortium are about to “awaken from that permanent nap”, as Fluorescent Black reboots like a mainframe computer after a power cut. Reunited after an “amicable […]
Industrial strength: Legion of Two – Riffs
Here’s one record you can judge by its cover. The colossal sound on Legion of Two’s debut album Riffs is so ‘industrial’ you can almost trace the cables from those spindly pylons back to the turbine […]
The lights are on – Orbital 20 review
After helping to rewire popular culture in the late 1980s with their symphonic take on techno, Orbital seem to be edging into heritage act territory, with this third best-of compilation and a reunion tour that […]
