Gowned in an oversized Kimono, wearing the war paint of a warrior, KID BE KID confronts what it means to live in a technologically-obsessed, image-fixated, exhibitionist environment that is the internet, or more broadly speaking, the modern world. And she does so in 10 beat-focused tracks, which she has compiled
The last time Nakhane entered the club, it was on Black Coffee’s guestlist. As the voice on the enduring dance floor anthem We Dance Again, Nakhane’s melancholy was the perfect foil to Black Coffee’s pulsating house. In the same way Nakhane’s clearest foremother ANOHNI lent soul to the synthesisers of
alternative R&B / Art-pop / baroque pop / funk / Nu-Disco / Synthpop
In biology, a ‘spandrel’ refers to a part of the body that has no observable function, a perfunctory excess that exists as a byproduct of evolution. It’s in this excess, this dead weight, that Athens art pop artist Evita Manji finds the conceptual core of their debut album, Spandrel? Arriving
ambient / Art-pop / baroque pop / Bass / experimental / Industrial / industrial bass / Rave / Techno
Caroline Polachek has revealed the full tracklist for her upcoming album, Desire, I Want To Turn Into You. The album will feature a collaboration with Grimes and Dido. The pop singer also released a new single from the album, Blood and Butter. Blood and Butter has a distinct early 2000’s
Alt-Pop / Art-pop / music business / music news / New Music / new single
Producer KID BE KID is a bit of a rebel. Having outgrown the restrictions that piano sheet music placed on her self-expression, she now taps her inner contrarian to explore unsung subject matter, which we can hear in her new record ‘Naked Times’, out under the Fun In The Church
The meeting of South African alt-pop star Nakhane and American art-pop darling Perfume Genius was inevitable in hindsight. Both artists have embraced the otherness of queerness, drawing from abjection, stigmatisation, and alienation as both major themes and aesthetic vehicles in their work. In this case, Do You Well feels like
Electro-pop singer Eulene has shared the official music video for her single ‘Heartbreak Hostage’. While it appears to be a love song, Eulene is in fact expressing the heartbreak she felt when her father passed away unexpectedly. She re-captures moments with her father with the help of animation & motion
Gorillaz need no introduction; the bold impressions of bittersweet melodrama the virtual band has forged within a vivid pop-culture niche – remains ever-spellbinding over the years. In an ever psychedelic swirling, interwoven flurry of eccentricity: we follow members 2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel as their lives unfold, their own distinct,
Review by Shannon Lawlor Experimental electronic music has always been top-talk in the underground scene, but some artists don’t necessarily capture such essence, or achieve high-acclaim in fields of experimentation as this can be such a broad, ambiguous term. From splicing together different sub-genres or sampling pre-existing sounds to create
