Jawbone Attitudes to women were awful in the 1970s — pretty much like most of history preceding it, a whole half of humanity shoved into a subservient background, even worse seen as “playthings” to be used and abused.
Monthly archives: April 2020
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Released on 23 April, The Microdance‘s new EP via Somewherecold Records is premiered below. The EP is available to download from Bandcamp. Speaking about the EP, Alex Kevill says
Odin The latest album from Norwegian drum powerhouse Gard Nilssen involves sixteen players, so it is not for nothing that the band is called the Supersonic Orchestra. If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours is a veritable feast for lovers of the Scandinavian jazz scene; but perhaps best of […]
“Deepblue”, in its “Slowmix” incarnation, is the lead track on the 12″ vinyl release april.#02 Live from Kashiwa Daisuke via Subcontinental records. The video for the track was directed by Sharath U Holla and is premiered below.
Hubro The Christian Wallumrød Ensemble has been trading through various line-ups for the best part of twenty years. After five albums with ECM, they arrived with Hubro and this is album number two for them after 2016’s Kurzsum And Fulger.
Spurge Right now, as we all try to re-orient ourselves to the frozen stills, underwater-slow latency and constant glitches of online communication, it’s a bloody blessing to have the self-titled Slum Of Legs album to hand. Not just because the gleeful instrumentation, heart-felt punk pop and reckless abandon will give […]
Bureau B The shiver shiva of close-mic(ed) debris greets you on “Empfang”, an inky shoal of suggestiveness mauled in mysterious mantras as the flare of a sleeping beast’s nostrils dusts the air in drowsy electronica at the opening of Die Wilde Jagd‘s Haut LP.
Happy Robots Happy Robots is perhaps the perfect label name for the latest release from Roman Angelos. Spacetronic Lunchbox is a vehicle for NY-based composer Rich Bennett to go all library music wibbly on us, and I defy anybody to come out the other side of this eleven tracks in […]
Stuart Bowditch‘s ever-reliable Courier Sounds label releases the Symbiosis split LP from Rorquals and Dead Circuits on 20 April 2020. The album features three tracks from each artist, two of which are collaborations with each other, and showcases their similarities and differences as .
Freaksville For the follow up to 2018’s compilation of instrumental tracks Quand La Nuit Tombe Sur l’Orchestre, Benjamin Schoos has divested himself of the ’70s theme tune rollneck and opened his shirt buttons to embrace his inner yacht God.
Consouling Jarboe‘s Illusory LP is just lovely, those warm jettisons of voice on the title track caught in the flow of a simple undulating accompaniment, its glittering glide delicately delineated in vaporising distance, the soft shimmering edges finally tapering out on a faint organ drone.
Upset The Rhythm Once again, Upset the Rhythm brings a report right from the coalface of the UK underground music scene. This time, the trio in question, Handle, extract a twisted and angular take on the bass, drums and vocal lineup with something that could be a guitar at times, […]
Upset The Rhythm Upset The Rhythm are touching base with a lot of happening female artists at the moment, none more so than London four-piece Es, whose synth-heavy dystopian take on post-punk would have sat very happily on 4AD in 1983, or even Merciful Release, such is the primal vibrancy […]
Opa Loka Philippe Petit‘s double-CD album Do Humans Dream Of Electronic Ships is all over the place, exhaling a sci-fi softness the type Louis and Bebe Barron sculpted back in the ’50s. A gouging cello bursting in somersaulting capillaries, chased by an errant black’n’decker rub that casts some scary shadows. […]
KrysaliSound As well as running KrysaliSound for the last ten years, Francis Gri has been recording soundscape art, producing thought-provoking and atmospheric pieces that, while they tend to head in an ambient direction, have far more depth. Here, due to personal experience, he has tried to capture through a suite […]
Joyful Noise This is Magic Sword’s third album. and their fourth record if you include an EP released a short while ago. Each record comes with a comic book telling an overarching story that the band have put to music, so in a way its the mother of all concept […]
Nonplace The latest release from Wolff Parkinson White is an intriguing proposition. The alias of German drummer Jochen Ruckert is put in use when radical electronic ideas need a vent and the latest album Favours and particularly the tracks chosen from that album for the Nonplace EP are pretty radical.
Jono Podmore has been at the studio controls of a host of musicians and bands since the 1990s, also releasing music as Kumo and as part of the all-analogue ensemble Metamono with Mark Hill and Paul Conboy. Jono is Professor of the Practice of Popular Music at the Musikhochschule in Cologne, […]
Mute (Europe) / Fat Possum (North and South America) / Bloodlines (Australia) Rowland S Howard is one of the heroes of the post-punk musical landscape, and possibly the most innovative and unique guitarists to ever venture forth from Australia. As a member of The Birthday Party, his razor-scarred, angular guitar […]
Rocket Neologisms are where electronic music finds its music. Autechre’s IDM (the worst of labels) wouldn’t prosper in a world of real words. “Cipater” couldn’t be “Bike Ride”; “Dael” or “Gnit” couldn’t take their asynchronous routes with anything like their blank machine majesty if they were tarred with bad brushes […]