That Ben Howard can play musical hopscotch, flitting from one style to the next, while maintaining a melodic and musical identity is testament to the English singer-songwriter’s preternatural talents. His approach to music is intrinsically natural to him, and hitherto unique from everyone else. The finger-plucked guitar popularised by him
British producer Jack Latham, AKA Jam City, is often overlooked for his contributions to the current direction of dance oriented pop music and the sound of the underground. His unique style combines influences from across genres such as grime, R&B, and electronic, and since his lauded 2012 debut Classical Curves,
Bass / bass n breaks / Breakbeats / Dream-Pop / Drum n Bass / House / Pop / Synthpop
Readying themselves and listeners for their sophomore album, Irish Indie Rock band The Burma present their latest fuzzy single, ‘23’, a cloudy haze of inverted vocal reverberations, pillow-soft notes, and underwater instrumentations. Dunked in goopy fuzz, the track fizzles like an ice-cold soda on a hot summer’s day. Stream /
band / Dream-Pop / Indie / Indie-Rock / Music Interview
William Orbit is like a comet. The English producer and composer had been active since the 70’s as more of a background player than main act, though every now and again, he’d experience a resurgence of sorts at the apex of the decade. Prepare to Energize in the 80’s, Fascinating
It’s possible that Australian producer Teneil Throssell’s greatest superpower under her club music alias HAAi, is her pysch-rock origin story. As HAAi, Throssell has been cultivating a sonic identity over the past few years that has become notorious for its high energy, acidic, peak time energy. But under the rave
breaks / bubblegum bass / Dream-Pop / Drum'n'bass / pyschrock / Rave / Techno
The wait is over for the release of dj poolboi’s latest album stay just a little while longer. This Unbelievably Spectacular release blurs conventions and crosses as many boundaries it possibly can genre-wise. The result is a remarkable odyssey of work featuring musicians from around the globe. Stream/ download: stay
Image by Estudio Primo The arc suggested by French electronic ambient composer and multi-instrumentalist Colleen’s latest offering, The Tunnel and the Clearing, is simple. It is a journey from darkness to light, from one opening to the next. However, Colleen’s invocation of this journey takes what is otherwise a linear
ambient / Barcelona / Dream-Pop / dreamwave / IDM / Minimal / multi-instrumentalist / New Album / new electronic music
Image by Marco Casino If there’s one thing certain about London-based Italian producer Not Waving, it’s that they have come to reveal themselves as a master in sonic shapeshifting. From their earlier work which located itself between unrelenting dance pop and the dark throbs of EBM (see: 2017’s Good Luck)
I Break Horses | Warnings | Bella Union Release Date: 8 May, 2020 In the era we live in, it feels as if everything around us has sped up – whether it means full seasons of tv series dropping on Netflix all at once, as opposed to watching episode by
Austra | HiRUDiN | Domino Recording Co. Release Date: 1 May, 2020 “Thinking about toxic relationships, I started reading about leeches –I learned that when they suck your blood, they release a peptide called hirudin that is the most potent anticoagulant in the world. So, although leeches themselves are considered
