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 […]
What the hell’s going on in the video for Billy Ocean’s Loverboy?
When Michael Jackson released his Thriller video in December 1983 it was a year zero for presenting pop music – a 14-minute short film directed by John Landis, with higher production values than most horror […]
‘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 […]
