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Leftfield – Alternative Light Source (2015)
Some of the best things in modern cultural life are restricted to two instalments. Fawlty Towers, The Office and Phoenix Nights all played out over just two series. The Stone Roses achieved their...
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Jeff Zagers – Still/Alive (2015)
Jeff Zagers‘ southern roots have traversed a broad spectrum of outsider music — his blown-out noise collagework was captured on Chu’s Musings Trill, a cassette triptych of filmic synth-pop, but he’s...
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Dylan Stark – Heartland (2015)
Despite Heartland being the first release from Portland resident Dylan Stark, it’s a spontaneous, brilliantly executed album and a piece of true artistry you might expect from a producer with a hefty...
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The Art of Noise – At the End of a Century (2015)
ZTT Records, the influential record label founded by Paul Morley, Trevor Horn and Jill Sinclair, has been prolifically releasing and reissuing the limitless treasure in its vaults since the end of the...
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Strategy – Noise Tape Self (2015)
With a quiet intensity over the last 12 years, Strategy has proven himself to be an incredibly resourceful and rewarding musician in both group settings and as a solo artist. In the latter guise, this...
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Drew Lustman – The Crystal Cowboy (2015)
The Crystal Cowboy finds Drew Lustman stepping away from his FaltyDL alias and returning to Planet Mu, his former home after signing with Ninja Tune in 2011. His earliest releases were highly...
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ASC – Imagine the Future (2015)
In what could be construed as a challenge or even provocation to the listener, James Clements opens his twelfth ASC album Imagine the Future with a twelve-minute setting, almost as if he’s saying “Make...
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Charles Cohen – Brother I Prove You Wrong (2015)
People don’t tend to think much about gestures when considering electronic music — that is, hands, and the shapes they carve. Think, for a moment, of a rock guitarist or a jazz saxophonist or a...
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High Wolf – Growing Wild (2015)
French artist High Wolf lets his music speak for itself. Not much is known of the man behind the name, other than that he’s French and goes by Max — or at least that’s the legend as it currently...
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Petrels – Flailing Tomb (2015)
London-based producer Oliver Barrett returns with Flailing Tomb, his fourth official solo full-length under the name Petrels. The whole Flailing Tomb album reportedly “draws inspiration from sources as...
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Seoul – I Become a Shade (2015)
“Blue, breathless, gentle, absolute.” That’s both the Twitter biography of Seoul and an accurate descriptor of the band’s ethos. Hailing from Montreal, the trio of synth-loving perfectionists have a...
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Stellar Om Source – Nite-Glo EP (2015)
Christelle Gualdi’s artistic progression as Stellar OM Source has been a steady process of crystallization. A former student of electro-acoustic composition at the Conservatoire de Paris, she began, in...
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Time Wharp – Time Wharp (2015)
Patrick Loggins used to seem like he was in a hurry. Three of the four tracks on his second EP, 2011’s GRN, were barely more than a minute long; the longest came in at 1:47. They were beautiful...
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Suzanne Kraft – Talk from Home (2015)
It’s quite surprising just how many irons Diego Herrera has in the fire at present. The L.A. producer arguably first came to light as part of Pharoahs, a woozy four-piece that have dropped a string of...
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Nick Diamonds – City of Quartz (2015)
If you’ve ever wondered how one might include notorious criminal Charles Manson on a synthpop record in 2015, Nick Diamonds has your answer. On his new solo offering, City of Quartz, Diamonds (aka...
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Jaakko Eino Kalevi – Jaakko Eino Kalevi (2015)
Jaakko Eino Kalevi’s new self-titled album is a comprehensive introduction to an artist surely destined to become one of synth-pop’s quirky new posterboys – and not just because on its opening track,...
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Active Child – Mercy (2015)
It’s been four years since the release of Pat Grossi, aka Active Child‘s last album You Are All I See, and in a press release he said his time away has been a huge inspiration for the material on...
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General Magic & Pita – Fridge Trax Plus (2015)
Vienna experimental institution Editions Mego celebrate its roots with Fridge Trax Plus, a 20th anniversary reissue of General Magic and Pita’s influential Fridge Trax material. General Magic is Ramon...
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Nils Frahm – Music for the Motion Picture Victoria (2015)
Nils Frahm himself acknowledges that it’s taken him a fair old time to get round to making a film score. It’s especially surprising considering he seems so well suited to the job. Letting his pieces...
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Evan Caminiti – Meridian (2015)
Evan Caminiti’s slow but steady progression towards electronic music from sand-swept guitar drone mirrors the pace of the music he makes. It has been measured, each move well-considered and clearly...
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