Theodore and Hamblin – The Scientific Contrast (Moteer)
Of all things, furniture design and typography brought Theodore and Hamblin together while studying together…
Browsing: Reviews
Mad EP – The Madlands Trilogy (Ad Noiseam)
New York-based classical musician and electronic composer Matthew Peters first emerged back on the Berlin-based…
Rubens – Carnivalesque (Herb Recordings)
Carnivalesque is the first CD release for the Herb Recordings label and the debut album…
Unkle Ho – Circus Maximus (Elefant Traks/Inertia)
I’m going to rate this album as if the purpose of it was to provide…
The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters (FatCat/Inertia)
Considering the number of prominent Glaswegian indie bands over the years it’s remarkable how few…
Antiguo Automata Mexicano – Kraut Slut (Static Discos)
Antiguo Automata Mexicano (AAM) is the musical project of Angel Sanchez Borges. Borges is also…
The Black Dog – The Book of Dogma (Soma/Inertia)
It feels like an aeon since music existed in a culture of scarcity, but, yes,…
Stars Of The Lid – And Their Refinement Of The Decline (Kranky/Inertia)
If ‘ambient’s signifies a kind of music that aspires to the condition of backdrop -…
Sage Francis – Human Death Dance (Epitaph/Shock)
No one does the dangerously verbose, on edge frustrated, barely controlled rage like US hip…
Igor Krutogolov – White (Auris Media)
White is a strange ambitious and intriguing document. Conceptually it’s packaged like an artefact, with…
Fennesz/Sakamoto – Cendre (Touch)
At first blush, the computer-bleated guitar drones of Christian Fennesz mirror, in a dreamy manner,…
DJ /rupture vs Filastine – Shotgun Wedding Volume Six (Violent Turd)
Tigerbeat6 ‘sublabel’ Violent Turd releases the sixth in its unauthorised mixtape series Shotgun Wedding where…
Sincere Trade – Between You And Me (Sublight)
Toronto-based electro/IDM producer Carl Heindl (aka Sincere Trade) is certainly a busy guy. Alongside promoter…
Capital Steps – I’m Not Listening (GoMidnight)
As Capital Steps, Seattle-based 8-bit electro producer Matthew Kenall has spent the last couple of…
Takeshi Nishimoto – Monologue (Buro)
A cluster of solo guitar compositions cobbled together one day within a church in Berlin,…