Seven years ago, the name Soichi Terada was thrust back into the cultural zeitgeist. Up until that point the Japanese producer had mostly stayed quiet, but this downtime was not undeserved. After all, Terada was one of the artists responsible for pioneering the direction of Japanese house in the late
The UK’s Olly Alexander, former frontman and now sole member of Years & Years, has been on a mission. He’s here to make pop fun again. In the post-Lorde era, pop has for the most part dialled down the theatrics and shifted toward a minimalist, writerly approach. This of course
Dance pop / Electronic / House / Pop / UK club
We’re not going to lie, this one slipped under our radar. A new Joy Orbison track that morphs from droning ambient into a full on dancefloor rager? Orbison’s own statement that he’s “sitting on quite a lot of unreleased music”? It’s shocking that we’re only getting to this track now,
The origin point of house music can be traced definitively back to Chicago, where the form arose as a reaction to disco and became popularised by its Black, mostly queer, progenitors at the South Side’s The Warehouse nightclub from which the genre takes its name. But house would also find
From the new guard of sonic disruptors to South Asian experimental R&B, these are our favourite releases of the week. In no particular order: Iceboy Violet – Vanity The latest single from Manchester based rapper, DJ, and producer Iceboy Violet is the first taste of the artist’s upcoming debut mixtape,
Alex Goddard / Disco / experimental / hyperpop / R&B / trap
Last year, Martha Skye Murphy released the triptych Concrete; an EP of three, icy pieces of baroque pop featuring production from FKA Twigs. Gravelly, astral, and ethereal, Concrete was as expansive as it was fleeting. Gone in just over twelve minutes, Concrete gave credence to Murphy’s skill as writer and
The visualisers for the music from British producer Bonobo’s seventh album, Fragments, have all played with the dynamics of light as it interacts with the natural world. For Rosewood, one of the album’s first singles, the ocean and a mountain coastline blur into a singular wormhole. For Tides (and Fragments
Back in 2018, British avant-pop star FKA Twigs was on the precipice of unleashing her sophomore studio album, 2019’s Magdalene. Perhaps her most complex work to date, on Magdalene she entered into a deep character study on the enigmatic Biblical figure, pulling from her a sort of fierce but mournful
Russia is fascinating place, culturally speaking. Seemingly insular, the music that arrives from this part of the world is often incomparable to anything else that’s happening right now. Sure, there’s the odd Tatu or to some extent even Pussy Riot, but for the most part Russia’s artists have avoided assimilated
ambient / doomcore / experimental / Industrial / Techno
From classic PC Music mutations to atmospheric tech-house programmed for rainy days, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. In no particular order: Angel-Ho – Silent Plateau Angel-Ho approaches music much in the same way as a performance artist; bursts of improvisation followed through with a bit of refinement.
