Squarepusher – Feed Me Weird Things – 25 year anniversary reissue/remaster (Warp)
Remastering. It seemed to be everywhere in the late 1990s, as hit releases from the…
Author Melonie Bayl-Smith
Melonie Bayl-Smith
Architect, musician and all-round music nerd. Believes that live music can save the world. Aspiring jazz drummer, classical pianist and accompanist by trade, sometimes a bassist and singer. Early music education (thx Mum and Dad) involved Sixties folk/protest icons, the classical canon, flamenco guitar, jazz, and Neil Diamond... ensuing musical preoccupations have included synth pop, rock, be-bop, fusion, goth, post-punk and new wave, prog jazz, electronica, dub, reggae, shoegazers, lo-fi, house in its many varieties, industrial, rap, hip-hop, noise rock, ambient, electro-acoustic, minimalism, found-sounds, glitch, post-rock, metal in its many varieties, contemporary art music, funk, soul, blues guitar... and on and on and on it goes. Inherited the vinyl collecting gene, have passed this on to my children (proud mum moment). RateYourMusic.com profile - Blackaxe2000. Instagram @melkbayl.
Truncador – Strong Arm (bandcamp)
While live music is only just starting to peep out from under the pandemic blanket,…
A Soundtrack of their Own Imagining: Ears have Ears’ Brooke Olsen and Scarlett Di Maio in conversation with Melonie Bayl-Smith
Experimental music – one of those turns of phrase that can strike terror into the…
33 1/3: Paul’s Boutique – Dan LeRoy (Continuum/ Bloomsbury Publishing)
In the 1993 book “Will Pop Eat Itself?” Jeremy Beadle attempted to interrogate the ever-shifting…
The seed of an idea – Eve Klein interview
Pubs, alternative arts festivals and roller derby meets. These places have little to nothing in…
Amiina interview by Melonie Bayl-Smith
There’s no doubt that Icelandic sextet Amiina are an intriguing bunch. Most recently, they delighted…
Gold Panda: “I like music where, well, where nothing happens.” Interview by Melonie Bayl-Smith
Ahead of his Australian appearance in January at Sydney Festival 2011, Cyclic Defrost spoke with…
The Necks – Silverwater (ReR/Vitamin)
The Necks need little in the way of an introduction – which perhaps is simply…
Efterklang & the Danish National Chamber Orchestra – Performing Parades (Leaf/Inertia)
Perhaps it’s the weather. Or maybe the impressive number of trained musicians per head of…
Aus – Light in August, Later (Something Good)
Aus, otherwise known as Yasuhiko Fukuzono, is a prolific young Japanese musician whose past recordings…
Ian Hawgood – Snow Roads (Dragon’s Eye) / Wolfskin (Hibernate)
Undertaking a parallel listening of these two most recent albums of Ian Hawgood’s, Snow Roads…
Porzellan – The Fourth Level of Comprehension (Hibernate)
On The fourth level of comprehension, Porzellan’s second album release, we hear many “classic” synth…
Port-Royal – Dying in Time (n5md)
When listening to Dying in Time – Port-Royal’s tenth studio release and third full length…
Volcano Choir – Unmap (Jagjaguwar/Inertia)
One would hesitate to say that this is the latest offering from Justin Vernon (aka…