Electronic
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Farrah Abraham – My Teenage Dream Ended
In the decade since its release, former Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham’s first and only album My Teenage Dream Ended has grown from a seemingly laughable cash-grab to a respected curioso in the landscape of contemporary pop. Labelled a precursor… Continue reading
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Oliver Coates – skins n slime (Review)
Warning: This review references sexual assault and explores themes some readers may find unsettling. When celluloid film gets jammed inside a malfunctioning projector, the intense light required to project images onto a screen causes the film to burn up. The… Continue reading
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Sufjan Stevens: Where Has My America Gone?
During the early years of the twenty-first century, commentators on American cultural life had begun to notice a certain social wide attitudinal shift. In the latter decades of the second millennium, a smirking, cynical stance had come to infect everything… Continue reading
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Listening To… Louke Man
I first came across the music of Louke Man while listening to the Harsh Riddims Vol. 4 compilation from Atlanta’s Harsh Riddims Blood Sucking Cassette Co. label. The Toronto producer’s track ‘Differently_’ stood out from the others for its smoothness… Continue reading
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Does Massive Attack’s Eutopia Constitute a New Form for Political Music?
The notion that music can be used as a medium for expressing political or socially engaged ideas is hardly new. Throughout the twentieth century disparate genres were used as vessels for the spread and popularisation of radical ideas, from the… Continue reading
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Emily A. Sprague – Water Memory (Review)
Emily A. Sprague is a modular synthesist and sound designer who, as a solo artist, is known for creating impressionistic soundscapes that evoke the natural world. Over the past few years, Sprague – also known for her work as guitarist… Continue reading
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Deli Girls – I Don’t Know How to Be Happy (Review)
“Remind them that they will never be as angry as the rest of us.” So screams Danny Orlowski on ‘Here We Go Again’, a track appearing three-quarters of the way through Deli Girls’ second album, I Don’t Know How to… Continue reading
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Caterina Barbieri – Ecstatic Computation (Review)
Two eyes, superimposed on a cold metallic surface. At first glance the image appears depthless, the lifeless gaze of a clay sculpture, flat and unseeing. Only with closer inspection does the landscape appear: snow-tipped mountains; light breaking through a watery… Continue reading
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Molly Nilsson – 2020 (Review)
Encountering Molly Nilsson’s back-catalogue for the first time can be a daunting experience. With nine albums in as many years, each bearing analogous black-and-white cover designs, it is hard to know exactly where to start. Indeed, the uniform aesthetic of… Continue reading
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Special Request – Bedroom Tapes (Review)
With four albums scheduled for release this year alone, Paul Woolford, aka. Special Request, can perhaps be forgiven for returning to some early demos on his latest release, Bedroom Tapes. Selected from lost cassettes rediscovered during a house-move, the compiled… Continue reading
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