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‘Deicide’ is the second offering from Crystal Castles since the rather acrimonious and well-publicised departure of singer Alice Glass last year, which sparked a bit of a social media war between Glass and fellow founding member Ethan Kath. When any band loses a member their future immediately is cast into

“8.58 is a moment of choice, it’s almost 9 o’clock. Are you going to school? Are you going in to that job you hate? Everybody faces that decision now and again. 8.58 am is when you’ve got to make up your mind.”  “Am I going to be truthful to myself or

Caribou is an animal, literally and figuratively. Let’s leave the North American deer species to David Attenborough and focus on Dan Snaith’s musical persona.   Releasing music under the names Manitoba and Daphni, Dan Snaith is a musical behemoth and is defined more as a composer/recording artist than a DJ.

Hailing from Byron Bay, Australia, the five-piece electronic/chillwave group Tora continues to make waves in their country’s explosive music scene. Artists such as Cassian, Rufus, and Lancelot have helped illuminate Australia’s thriving electronic scene, and Tora holds no punches in their continuation of this trend. Tora’s sound exemplifies the power

Pangaea.  The primordial land mass.  Also the interview-shy 2-step maestro.  One of them has released ‘Something In Your Eye’, the first track on an upcoming EP (the other hasn’t released much in the last couple of years beyond the odd pyroclastic flow). Imagine four children who stumble across a box of percussive instruments

For almost a century now, Audion (AKA Matthew Dear) has been working on both the pop world and the underground. Amongst his first works you’ll see ‘Hands Up for Detroit’ and you’re not wrong, that is the original that Fedde Le Grand reworked in the annoyingly unforgettable 2006 track.   Remixing

‘Hush Hush’ is the lead track from Nessi’s upcoming EP Twentythreeyears, so named because of the number’s significance to the German singer/songwriter. Now, for me the age of 23 reminds me of my first year in London, a bitter break-up and a beautifully hot summer. For Nessi, the number’s significance

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