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Fort Romeau – Insides
Michael Greene as Fort Romeau offers a nice blend of house and experimental electronic on his new album ‘Insides’. Each track has something to offer though they do tend to blend into each other by...
View ArticleDesert Moons – Rough Trade
There was a time on ye olde hugger towers that electronica occupied a near equal status with stock-in-trade indie rock. Over time order has been restored however and the beats have been obliterated by...
View ArticleNocturnal Tapes – Wake Up
So much pent up energy on this track initially and it is quite a release to hear ‘Wake Up’ emerge succinctly and in a targeted way. Much like the way Human League used to do (and LCD Soundsystem...
View ArticleBNNY RBBT – Waterfalls Down
BNNY RBBT has all the hallmarks of a viral sensation but not been especially down with the kids who am I to know. What I am fairly confident about though is the music and this mysterious Macedonian...
View ArticleSteve Benjamins – A Hammer Fell From The Sky
This is so radically different to Benjamins’ last track that featured here ‘Purification Ritual’ it feels like a completely different artist. Like Coldplay were they injected with 24-carat inspiration...
View Articlefilous with Emily Warren – Already Gone
Ingenious playing and on the edge of disintegration fragile vocals add up to a tune so representative of the kind of music that has everything to push beyond the edge and into mainstream consciousness....
View ArticleEric Sharp – Take This Time (Feat. Zhao)
You can see why this has picked up plenty of traction because it takes the template as laid down by the likes of minimalist electro pioneers the Field and Daniel Avery and added equally effervescent...
View ArticleEat More Cake – Set On You
You know I’d forgotten how dance acts like to shake it up a little when it comes to the tunes they release. So in this instance Eat More Cake have put out vocal, radio and instrumental versions for the...
View ArticleFKL – 1-800
Music to watch the dancers go by, thanks to a momentum that could inspire the most decrepit of us into movement. A slightly obscured sense of reason and an air of madness fills the air, which should...
View ArticleHusbands – No One’s Dreaming
A little Washed Out, some New Order and a lot of languid electronic manoeuvring that puts one in mind of Panda Bear. This duo from Oklahoma City appear on this evidence capable of a most addictive...
View ArticleAmina – I Saw You Float Away
‘I Saw You Float Away’, as well as being a brilliant name for a song, is whimsical but well executed indie pop with all manner of sepia-tinged effects. Reminds me of early Stereolab (Candy Claws too),...
View ArticleSterile Cuckoo – Copperfield
When I read band names like that I wonder whether all the good band names have been exhausted. Such puzzlings aside this track reminded me of Limahl’s ‘Neverending Story’ especially the 12-inch version...
View ArticleLunavela – Chequered Past
Never heard of shoegaze house before, the genre that Lunavela have used to describe this track, I must admit but I’ll gladly get swept up in its dreamy wake. The pulsey persuasion is quite the...
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Memoryy – Not Over You (Highway Superstar Remix)
Makes more sense to hear the original before the remix and in the case of ‘Not Over You’ it is safe to say we did! The effect of the spruce-up certainly adds a dancefloor nous that was perhaps not...
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These Guy – Heaps
You know this reminded me of Baltimore’s ‘Tarzan Boy’ from aoens ago, more for the bounce and rhythms than the contemporary and Animal Collective like vocals. It demonstrates Bribane’s Joe Saxby and...
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Ricoshëi – Something
‘Something’ has a dance groove but not one you’d expect, seemingly reticent to fully give of itself so we get a somewhat stuttering progression. This leaves us with intrigue, a what-is-coming next...
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Yan Sella – Turning Circles (Feat. Manchester Rain)
If you spy the promo vid for ‘Turning Circles’ you’ll love the visuals as they add the perfect companion piece for the pulsing ambiance created here. Suggests a higher state of consciousness, a fluid...
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Star Rover – Snow Moving
‘Snow Moving’ is tribal at first, but then you realise that maybe these boys just want to rock in ways not yet dreamt up. Certainly feels like a new way of doing things, post post-rock if you like....
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Trentemøller – Transformer Man
Denmark’s Trentemøller have synthy-fied Neil Young’s 1982 classic ‘Transformer Man’. The outcome is a Kraftwerk like rumble of solid synths that have a certain dissonance, just like Marie Fisker’s...
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Blocktreat – Alpha
So off the cuff, drifting as it does towards an inevitable conclusion where eyelids become heavy and we enter the Blocktreat zone. ‘Alpha’ subtly offers tropical rhythms, a voice like a head masseuse...
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