Category Archives: Reviews
Van She Tech Booties
Twitter this morning alerted me to a couple brand spankin’ Van She Tech remixes. The guys took some time out from recording what one can assume is a new album to make these booties in preparation for their upcoming Splendour In The Grass Dj set (which i’ll no doubt hear all about come Monday…) The [...]
Beach House do Teen Dream
Sometimes these days I feel like the only time I swing through these pages is when I’m violently ditching something at you with the triumphant cry of ‘LOVE THIS LIKE I LOVE YOU’ (see Mob, Glitch and Buttons, Fuck). Which is part of the point of blogs I guess, but I do worry that you [...]
No Sense in Moderat(ion)
I have no end of love for German electronica maestros Modeselektor, and am at least moderately fond of German minimal/IDM don Apparat, so when I heard that they were rekindling their German collaborative project Moderat (geddit? It’s a portmanteau!) I was very, very excited. So excited that I may have actually fallen off my chair. [...]
More Evil Nine, More!
This photo notwithstanding, I really like Evil Nine, and have done for quite a while. I was (electronically) coming of age in the nu-skool breaks scene just as their debut album ‘You Can Be Special Too’ really started making waves in late 2003, so from the get go their particular brand of stomping, rock-tinged, snare-kick [...]
Passion Pit
I think that when I look back at this grand music blogging adventure and start tallying up all the hits and misses of my career, the one that’s really going to sting was the time in June last year when I picked up a track called ‘Sleepyhead’ from the now defunct Good Weather for Airstrikes, [...]
Kitsuné Maison 6: The Melodic One
If you needed further proof that the aural flavour of the year is smooth and glossy disco revivalism, then the latest Maison compilation from trend-setting uber-label Kitsuné should eradicate those final doubts in a blinding burst of disco ball funk. “Aieeeeee!” you’ll say, shielding your eyes from the safari suited splendour, “where be the bangerz?”. [...]
TV on the Radio Return
TV on the Radio hold an odd place in my musical pantheon. Over the past few years I became, and still am so deeply enamoured with the song ‘Staring at the Sun’ that it’s made it quite hard for me to really listen properly to anything else they’ve done. Every time I tried to listen [...]
Bomb The Bass – Future Chaos
I always get slightly nervous when I come to write about an artist such as UK’s Tim Simenon, who maintains the lofty status of one of electronic music’s great figureheads. In this case it all seems particularly out of my depth seeing as the dude contributed significantly to the rise of what NME coined, “DJ [...]
The Rex The Dog Show
Listening to Rex the Dog’s long-awaited debut LP (well, at least as far as the Rex the Dog moniker is concerned – Jake Williams, the man behind Rex, has been producing dance music since 1993) ‘The Rex the Dog Show’ you start to realise two things. One, that Rex is making some of the best [...]
Beck: Modern Guilt
It feels like I’ve been anticipating this album for all of forever. I have a massive crush on this man, and not just because he’s pretty. It’s because he never disappoints, even after nine studio albums spanning fourteen years, Beck’s tenth album, Modern Guilt, is superb, and while he has described it as, “the most [...]
Dandi Wind – Yolk of the Golden Egg
When a friend of mine was looking through my records last week, he came to a halt when he arrived at the Dandi Wind Sleeping Beauty 7”, which features a bathing-suit-clad-but-certainly-not-tacky Dandi on the front cover, and a nuggety yet sweet-looking dog on the back. Needless to say he didn’t share my fantasy of folicing [...]
The Rascals – Rascalize
Well it’s set to be released internationally tomorrow, but The Rascals’ Rascalize was leaked about a month ago and it’s been oozing all over the place ever since. Not that that’s such a terrible thing (ok, maybe for Deltasonic Records it is), because I really do enjoy it, although I’m not so sure I should [...]
Black Ghosts’ Full-Length Debut
In the past I have to admit I’ve found it hard to connect with The Black Ghosts. There is a palpable, chilly air of unattainability surrounding them, which is perhaps the combination of a stern policy that you can listen but not touch, and a promise that while they won’t be your best friends, [...]
VHS Or BETA – Free!
I got a text last night from supreme DJ Fierce Brosnan about a couple of free passes to VHS Or BETA and had to go. Turns out you don’t need to pay even half of the ticket price! I got in a little late and caught the last couple of tracks of Yves Klein Blue. [...]
Shades of Gray