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LIGHTS – Skin & Earth (2017)
Lights’ 4th full-length album, 2017’s sophisticated Skin & Earth, is a dynamically rendered concept album that balances a post-apocalyptic, comic-book inspired story line with an addictive bevy of...
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Kölsch – 1989 (2017)
1989, the third Kompakt full-length by Kölsch, is meant to evoke the year the Danish techno producer started going through puberty, as well as the period when his parents were divorcing. It was a...
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Chihei Hatakeyama – Void XII / XIII / XIV (2017)
Chihei Hatakeyama is a sound artist , an organizer and mastering engineer who was born in 1978, and lives in the Tokyo. He has performed for years under his given name and also as one half of the...
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Steffi – World of the Waking State (2017)
Midway through “Cease to Exist,” the closing tune on Steffi‘s latest album, the energy dips. As the beat stumbles and the bassline subsides, tension builds around a series of sombre stabs. It’s a...
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Guy Andrews – Tåke (2017)
2016’s Our Spaces, the first release from London-based producer Guy Andrews, was one of the year’s most radically different and unique electronic albums. His sophomore effort, Tåke (Norwegian for...
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Caterina Barbieri – Patterns of Consciousness (2017)
Patterns are ubiquitous in electronic music. It might seem unremarkable as a subject of an album — in this case, Caterina Barbieri‘s Patterns of Consciousness. But the Berlin-based Italian artist’s...
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Eric Copeland – Goofballs (2017)
Eric Copeland (Black Dice) returns to DFA with a brand-new set of hyper & hectic leftfield club music. Goofballs places its emphasis on playful melodies, ear worm hooks & vocals mixed with...
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Aphex Twin –…I Care Because You Do (1995, Reissue 2017)
The mad-scientist of electronica – Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin – released I Care Because You Do in 1995. This album’s single “Ventolin” stood as one of the more cantankerous tracks that RDJ had...
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Merzbow & Alessandro Cortini – Merzbow & Alessandro Cortini (2017)
Alessandro Cortini (NIN) and Japanese noise legend Masami Akita aka Merzbow elicit previously unheard voices from the classic EMS Synthi; a British synthesiser from the early ‘70s which has been...
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Strategy – The Infinity File (2017)
Strategy is the longrunning solo project of Portland, Or. producer Paul Dickow. While Dickow has been involved with a number of unusually varied bands, collaborations, and labels, Strategy remains...
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Laraaji – Sun Gong / Bring On the Sun (2017)
A sonic explorer, mystical busker, standup comedian, laughter therapist and key figure in the history of ambient music, Edward Larry Gordon – aka Laraaji – returns, aged 73, with two albums. Sun Gong...
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From the Mouth of the Sun – Hymn Binding (2017)
Not to take anything away from Dag Rosenqvist, but the star of this particular show is… Aaron Martin’s cello. Sure, other sounds — piano, guitar, lap steel, banjo, ukulele, and pump organ, among them —...
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Mount Kimbie – Love What Survives [Japan Edition] (2017)
Dominic Maker and Kai Campos have shape-shifted again. Their 2010 debut Crooks & Lovers was responsible for the shape of post-noughties UK electronic music, and two years later Cold Spring Fault...
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Gary Numan – Savage (Songs from a Broken World) [Deluxe Edition] (2017)
Deluxe hardback book CD featuring the bonus track “If I Said”. …Marking Gary Numan’s 22nd full-length of his career, Savage (Songs from a Broken World) follows 2013’s Splinter (Songs from a Broken...
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Clark – Death Peak [Japan Edition] (2017)
There’s a lovable yin and yang to Chris Clark‘s sonic din, a mashup of lament and lullaby. The lurking chaos on Death Peak, and indeed every one of his experiments, is dreadfully gorgeous. Though less...
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Klaus Schonning – Kaleidoscope (2017)
Very few international musicians master the art of composing, producing and playing music, which makes you think about grandiose classical masterpieces in a modern interpretation and play instrumental...
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F Ingers – Awkwardly Blissing Out (2017)
F ingers is the project of Australian trio of Carla Dal Forno, Tarquin Manek, and Samuel Karmel. Awkwardly Blissing Out is their fourth LP and the second on Blackest Ever Black, following on from...
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VA – Behind the Counter with Max Richter (2017)
The spectacular compilation Behind the Counter with Max Richter, which was put together by British composer Max Richter, is the first in Rough Trade Shop’s Behind the Counter series, in which some of...
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Ben Frost – The Centre Cannot Hold (2017)
For The Centre Cannot Hold, Australian experimental musician Ben Frost flew to Chicago to work with famed engineer Steve Albini, who has continually received praise for his ability to capture rawness...
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Ibeyi – Ash (2017)
Ibeyi’s stellar self-titled debut album was a flashpoint that steeped itself in brittle electro-drenched R&B and roots Yoruban percussion and openly engaged the saints of Santeria: its introduction...
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