Compton gangsta rap revivalist YG did his bit for political discourse in 2016 with his anti-Trump hit-job FDT (you can guess what he did there), and his Still Brazy album was a narrative-driven deep listening […]
Moo Kid’s 2018 in 30 albums
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 […]
