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Paula Temple – Edge of Everything (2019)
Edge of Everything is the long-awaited debut album by Paula Temple, a master of hard techno and a technological innovator whose DJ career stretches back to the ’90s. After releasing a Jeff...
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LOFT – and departt from mono games EP (2019)
The phrase “deconstructed club music” may bring a weary sigh to many a purveyor of modern electronic music. Indeed, the style is certainly in vogue, brought about by a plethora of artists on a variety...
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Less Bells – Solifuge (2018)
The otherworldly location of Joshua Tree has inspired numerous musicians through the years. Its Martian-esque scenery has featured on album covers, its name has used for record titles, and strange...
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Qasim Naqvi – Teenages (2019)
Split between tremulous, frothing structures and grandiose, discordant modular synth music, Teenages is the debut from Pakistani-American jazz drummer/percussionist Qasim Naqvi for Erased Tapes, and...
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VA – Too Slow to Disco NEO – En France (2019)
The latest (sixth) entry in the series that describes itself as “Late 70s Westcoast Yacht-pop you can almost dance to”, Neo En France is series curator DJ Supermarkt’s crate-diving trawl through the...
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Ishmael Ensemble – A State of Flow (2019)
Ishmael is a saxophonist, DJ, producer and bandleader, known to his friends as Pete Cunningham. Over the past few years, he’s conducted some madly varied DJ sets, created stately remixes of tracks by...
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Physical Therapy – It Takes a Village: The Sounds of Physical Therapy (2019)
The most consistent feature of Daniel Fisher’s catalogue is his complete and utter lack of regard for commercial convention and circumstance. Whether working under his Physical Therapy alias or...
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The Durutti Column – The Guitar and Other Machines [Deluxe Edition] (2018)
Following up the band’s second live album, A Night in New York, Durutti’s composition changed slightly, with both Kellet and Metcalfe off to pursue other ventures, the former ending up in Simply Red....
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Holly Herndon – PROTO (2019)
As a student of both avant-garde synthesists and club-adjacent electronic music, composer Holly Herndon has always been concerned with the pervasive relationship between humans and technology today....
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Hælos – Any Random Kindness (2019)
Expanding their scope on sophomore effort Any Random Kindness, U.K. electronic outfit Hælos took their early trip-hop revival sound and thawed the chill to reveal a lively, effervescent heart beating...
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Maps – Colours. Reflect. Time. Loss. (2019)
Under the name Maps, British musician James Chapman has sculpted a trio of dramatic albums whose electro-shoegaze hybrid seems to skirmish back and forth between its organic and synthetic factions. A...
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Tim Hecker – Anoyo (2019)
Anoyo is the companion piece to Konoyo, Tim Hecker‘s 2018 full-length recorded with members of gagaku ensemble Tokyo Gakuso. Taken from the same sessions, the short album inhabits the same territory,...
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Doomsquad – Let Yourself Be Seen (2019)
Canadian trio Doomsquad‘s third album is a sharp turn from their previous style of shamanic dance jams. While even more disco-fixated than 2016’s Total Time, Let Yourself Be Seen stands out by...
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Lydia Ainsworth – Phantom Forest (2019)
Phantom Forest continues where Lydia Ainsworth left off with her full-length debut two years ago. Darling of the Afterglow was a symphony of dark, layered synth instrumentation and angelic harmonies...
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Steve Moore – Beloved Exile (2019)
Steve Moore deserves a lot of credit. Not only did he help usher in the horror soundtrack revival with his band Zombi, but his early solo albums, such as 2007’s The Henge, explored Berlin School synth...
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Craig Leon – Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music, Vol. 2: The Canon (2019)
While perhaps best known for his extensive career as a rock producer and engineer dating back to the ’70s (including the first albums by the Ramones, Blondie, and Suicide), then as a classical arranger...
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Efrim Manuel Menuck & Kevin Doria – are SING SINCK, SING (2019)
Efrim Manuel Menuck’s solo recording career began as a counterpoint to his main band’s grandiosity. In contrast with his two main bands — the instrumental post-rock ensemble Godspeed You! Black Emperor...
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Tujiko Noriko – Kuro (2019)
Most listeners will hear the original soundtrack for Kuro before they see the film — that is, if they see the film at all. Kuro, directed by Joji Koyama and Tujiko Noriko, is a 2017 arthouse picture...
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VR Sex – Human Traffic Jam (2019)
VR SEX are audio/visual provocateurs who transpose the identifiers of death rock, synth punk, post-punk, ambient, and ethereal soundscapes into an audit on technology and its imprint on our collective...
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Ian Hawgood – Impermanence (2019)
While Ian Hawgood‘s Impermanence is unquestionably a modern ambient production, its sonic character lends it the patina of an early electronic work; stated otherwise, the forty-minute release could...
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