electronica
Moroccan Gnawa comes to Manhattan with 'Saha Gnawa'Wednesday, 15 October 2025
A mix of tradition and Afrofuturism, acoustic and electronic, east and west fumigating in a cauldron of rhythms, chants, solo explorations and full ensemble blow-outs, Saha Gnawa (on New York's Pique-Nique label) draws on the example of Essaouira’s... Read more... |
Emily A. Sprague realises a Japanese dream on 'Cloud Time'Thursday, 09 October 2025
The history of experimental musicians from Europe and North America adopting Japanese aesthetics is … patchy. It got especially dodgy in the 1990s when every other electronica dork started flinging random kanji characters on their sleeves, writing... Read more... |
Pop Will Eat Itself's 'Delete Everything' is noisy but patchyMonday, 06 October 2025
Pop Will Eat Itself deserve to be more celebrated. The Stourbridge outfit were one of the first 1980s bands to realise the potential of smashing punky indie-rockin’ into hip hop and electronic dance.They had hits, many great songs, and covered the... Read more... |
Album: Night Tapes - portals//polaritiesWednesday, 24 September 2025
“Helix” is the ninth track on portals//polarities. With this dramatic, acid house-leaning slab of shoegazing-infused electropop, Night Tapes make the case that they’re the real deal.Up to this point, their pop-inclined electronica has embraced... Read more... |
Album: Yasmine Hamdan - I Remember I Forget بنسى وبتذكرWednesday, 10 September 2025
A lot is going on during Yasmine Hamdan’s third solo album. Despite all ten songs of I Remember I Forget بنسى وبتذكر drawing from the lyrics and music of Palestinian folklore, what is heard is avowedly non-traditional. Hamdan is sticking with the... Read more... |
Houghton / We Out Here festivals review - an ultra-marathon of community vibesFriday, 22 August 2025
The long, hot summer of 2025 has been something else, right? Hate rallies, creeping authoritarianism, a weird reluctance to discuss the extremity of the weather even as everyone scrambles to buy air conditioners...But also a slightly delirious sense... Read more... |
Music Reissues Weekly: The Residents - American Composer's SeriesSunday, 17 August 2025
George & James was originally released in March 1984. Stars & Hank Forever! emerged in October 1986. The two LPs were parts of – and, as it turned out, the only entrants in – a series of albums their creators, San Francisco’s Residents,... Read more... |
Album: Mansur Brown - RihlaSaturday, 02 August 2025
I like to think I’m open to most things, but even so I never thought that I’d be getting an education in prog metal in the summer of 2025. Let alone that it would be from groovy young Brit jazz players. But so it goes. Last week I interviewed the... Read more... |
Album: Debby Friday - The Starrr of the Queen of LifeMonday, 28 July 2025
Debby Friday is a Nigerian-Canadian singer-producer who found some success a couple of years ago with her debut album Good Luck. It won the Best Electronic Album 2023 Polaris Prize, the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy or Brit. That album had a moody... Read more... |
Album: Slikback - AttritionThursday, 17 July 2025
In the eternal now of the strobe-lit sweatbox, innovation functions in a different way to the rest of culture. Yes of course, the thrill of the new has consistently been a vital part of dancefloor culture, but so has the familiarity of particular... Read more... |
Music Reissues Weekly: Beggars Arkive - Gary Numan's 1979 John Peel sessionSunday, 13 July 2025
Tubeway Army’s “Are ‘Friends’ Electric” hit the top of the UK single’s chart in the last week of June 1979. It stayed there for four weeks. Its parent album, Replicas, lodged itself in the Top 75 for 31 weeks. In April, just as Replicas was out,... Read more... |
Album: Barry Can't Swim - LonerSaturday, 05 July 2025
Despite being Mercury nominated, Bazza’s hardly a household name. Nevertheless, his debut album When Will We Land was highly praised by those in the know. I am definitely not in the know and am more or less a stranger to electro stuff – it... Read more... |
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