Kelly Moran – Origin EP (2019)
Kelly Moran’s Ultraviolet grew out of a period of writer’s block. Her usual method of composition — painstakingly plotting every note on staff paper, as much a mathematical process as an intuitive one...
View ArticleFlying Lotus – Flamagra (2019)
How has it been five years since the last Flying Lotus release? In no way does it feel like half a decade since ‘You’re Dead’, that epic post-mortuary odyssey that saw the artist born Stephen Ellison...
View ArticleM. Geddes Gengras – I Am the Last of That Green and Warm-Hued World (2019)
Stephen King’s The Gunslinger, the first in his Dark Tower series, is a collection of novellas connected by a shared protagonist, Roland Deschain, and a common setting, a post-apocalyptic American...
View ArticleErland Cooper – Sule Skerry (2019)
Erland Cooper is to follow up 2018’s sublime Solan Goose LP with a new album titled Sule Skerry, billed as the second album in a planned triptych inspired by the musician’s childhood home The Orkney...
View ArticleDrinker – Fragments (2019)
Drinker are the recording project of singer-songwriter Aaron Mendelsohn and producer-composer Ariel Loh. After the release of 2017’s Happy Accident EP, the band return with their first full LP,...
View ArticleJan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset, Samuel Rohrer – Dark Star Safari (2019)
Dark Star Safari — a newly formed band project featuring Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset, and Samuel Rohrer — present their recording debut, an evocative self-titled song-driven album. The album...
View ArticleDâm-Funk – STFU II (2019)
The neon music that soundtracked the late-aughts Los Angeles club scene has become a global force. But while luminaries like Flying Lotus and Thundercat are recognized for influencing rap and jazz, the...
View ArticleMai Mai Mai – Nel sud (2019)
Italian noise artist Toni Cutrone has divulged the details of his latest LP under the Mai Mai Mai alias. Titled Nel Sud and inspired by Mediterranean history and Italian ethnographic films, the record...
View ArticleDennis Young – Primitive Substance (2019)
Dennis Young began work on the Primitive Substance LP with Andy Gomory in the second half of the 1980’s, laying down basic tracks at Gomory’s studio in New Jersey. Over the next fifteen-odd years the...
View ArticleJ-E-T-S – Zoospa (2019)
Jimmy Edgar and Travis Stewart were among the first wave of American producers splicing glitchy IDM production with elements of hip-hop and R&B. Both artists recorded for the legendary Miami label...
View ArticleKölsch – fabric presents Kölsch (2019)
fabric presents Kölsch is a ten-track journey of exclusive new material from a pioneer of dance floor melancholy. A mainstay of German imprint Kompakt, Kölsch is responsible for developing an...
View ArticleStubbleman – Mountains and Plains (2019)
Musician Pascal Gabriel moved from Belgium to London in 1979 and has been involved in the city’s electronic music scene for nearly that long. He’s recorded, produced, or mixed everyone from Wire and...
View ArticleJames Murray – Landscapes of Lovers (2018)
By any measure, James Murray had a fabulous 2018. Not only did he amp up the release total for his own Slowcraft imprint with full-lengths by Anne Garner, Alapastel, Neotropic, and Gri + Mosconi (the...
View ArticleGooooose – Rusted Silicon (2019)
Gooooose is the experimental electronic solo project of Han Han, who also constitutes one fourth of Shanghai band Duck Fight Goose. The latter’s rock music suggests a concern with production value,...
View ArticleAnnie Lennox – Lepidoptera EP (2019)
Annie Lennox has consistently surprised listeners with twists and turns in her storied music career, and her latest release is no exception. Lepidoptera is a four-song piano instrumental EP, performed...
View ArticleGeorgia – Time (2019)
Georgia, the New York-based duo of Brian Close and Justin Tripp, are the definition of hard to define. Since they first emerged in 2012, their signature style has embodied the Fourth World attitude,...
View ArticleEnzo Siragusa – A Decade of Rave (2019)
For a good few years in the ’90s, Enzo Siragusa, cofounder of the East London label and party Fuse, was obsessed with UK rave culture. As a young teenager he attended seminal gatherings like Dreamscape...
View ArticleLuka Productions – Falaw (2019)
Bamako-based producer Luka is one of the most innovative and prolific producers of the country, with his unique blend of traditional West African music and electronic sounds. Following Fasokan,...
View ArticleMatias Aguayo – Support Alien Invasion (2019)
Electronic music has long loved its intergalactic fables, but Matias Aguayo’s Support Alien Invasion has nothing to do with science fiction. No “Cosmic Cars” or Deep Space here: The title of the...
View ArticleMeat Beat Manifesto – Opaque Couché (2019)
Opaque couché is supposedly the world’s ugliest color, and it covers U.K. cigarette packs in order to deter smoking. It’s also what adorns the cover of Meat Beat Manifesto‘s like-named full-length, and...
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