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The Notwist – Close to the Glass (2014)
German electronic band the Notwist‘s 2002 LP Neon Golden is a fragile album, built on Markus Acher’s lovelorn vocals and beds of rickety electronics that tangled and disintegrated as they were being...
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Janek Schaefer – Lay-By Lullaby (2014)
Flipping through London-based sound artist Janek Schaefer‘s output is like a roll call of the top-tier movers in modern sound design and experimentation. From Room40 and Apestaartje to Asphodelle,...
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Cascadeur – Ghost Surfer (2014)
This young artist from Metz played in France and Canada before recording his first album in 2012. After having returned to the studio, he is set to release “Ghost Surfer” in August 2013 (postponed to...
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Ed Zealous – Wired (2014)
Unveiled on the back of three singles which certainly raised an eager appetite for its appearance, Wired the debut album from electronic pop band Ed Zealous easily confirms and reinforces all the...
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Outlands – Love Is As Cold As Death (2014)
It’s safe to say we’ve all come to terms with the fact that the ’90s are once more vogue, for the first time since, well, the ’90s. Dungarees and tie-dye and bolshy neons grace our streets, grungy...
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Bibio – The Green EP [Japan Edition] (2014)
Wolverhampton producer Bibio, alter-ego of Stephen Wilkinson, has wasted no time in following up his previous release, Silver Wilkinson, which came out on Warp during May of last year. It It’s a...
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Hands – The Soul Is Quick (2014)
Adding to his growing list of aliases, Swedish electronic polymath Axel ‘The Field’ Willner’s latest project marks the début of yet another nom de plume, HANDS, a move towards more desolate musical...
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Poemss – Poemss (2014)
Venetian Snares (aka Aaron Funk) mangled my ears as an impressionable teenager with his break-core masterpiece Rossz Csillag Alatt Született (Planet Mu, 2005) and was my gateway drug to the even more...
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Cibo Matto – Hotel Valentine (2014)
Cibo Matto‘s 2014 return with Hotel Valentine – their first album in 15 years – was one of the more unexpected reunions of ’90s acts. After all, both Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori had busy schedules...
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Slowly Rolling Camera – Slowly Rolling Camera (2014)
A band name and album title like Slowly Rolling Camera gives little if anything away about the nature of the music to be experienced on this, the debut album from the UK-based quartet. Good for...
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Shackleton – Freezing Opening Thawing EP (2014)
Sam Shackleton‘s career began in the shadows and he’s pretty much remained there since. He looked for inspiration past Britain’s borders, to Berlin and beyond, at a time when dubstep’s nucleus remained...
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Solvent – New Ways: Music from the Documentary ‘I Dream of Wires’ (2014)
The 2013 independent documentary I Dream of Wires skillfully chronicled the history of the modular synthesizer, its place in the foundations of electronic music, and the ways in which it receded from...
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Hollow & Akimbo – Hollow & Akimbo (2014)
Written, recorded, mixed and mastered entirely by the band, Hollow & Akimbo‘s debut LP includes Singularity, and The One Who Has to Carry You Home, which further showcase the duo’s skill at...
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Trust – Joyland (2014)
On 2012′s TRST, Toronto’s Trust established a dark electronic pop sound and matched this with a gothic nocturnal aesthetic. For the follow-up, Joyland, project mastermind Robert Alfons opted to embrace...
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Earth Dies Burning – Songs from the Valley of the Bored Teenager (1981-84)...
Rock & roll’s fixation with youth and the teenage spirit is interwoven into the fabric of almost every chapter of its lengthy history. While some backward-looking underground acts reference the...
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Cashmere Cat – Wedding Bells EP (2014)
Cashmere Cat‘s 2012 EP Mirror Maru meant big things for producer Magnus August Høiberg — it’s just that one of those big things was the opportunity to be yet another argument starter regarding what...
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The Hafler Trio – A Cure for Kenophobia: Recordings 87-99 (2013)
Vinyl-On-Demand grant a rare window of opportunity to survey the outlying soundscapes of extreme sonic cartographer Andrew McKenzie’s Hafler Trio in this astonishing boxset. Whilst a fringe concern to...
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Holly Herndon – Chorus EP (2014)
Holly Herndon’s work thrives on the tension between abstraction and accessibility. Large chunks of her full-length debut, Movement, reflected the Mills College graduate’s grounding in academia. Early...
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VA – Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD (2013)
2CDs, 42-track retrospective of the 4AD label from the 80s and 90s comes with the limited edition of the book Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD by Martin Aston (curated by the author himself). The...
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Eliane Radigue – Opus 17 (2013)
Éliane Radigue, an electronic and musique concrete composer who studied electroacoustic techniques in Paris under the guidance of Schaeffer and Henry, is perhaps most notably known for her lengthy...
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