Overall, Topos is fearless and unique, with uncompromising musical textures and forms, highly disciplined, sometimes visceral and ethereal, often raw and rapt.
Tag: Pop
Saroos :: Turtle Roll (Alien Transistor)
To put the German band Saroos on the listening map, one only has to mention a couple of names: the Notwist and Morr Music.
Rico Casazza :: Escandon EP (Perimeter Junk)
These five selections shake and shimmy through downtempo layers with a pseudo-lounge cadence.
Björk :: Fossora (One Little Independent)
While field recordings of Björk actually picking mushrooms or dancing on her coffee table is perhaps the biggest missed opportunity on Fossora, the opportunity of time that lockdown gave Björk to reconnect with nature, her evolving family and her love of the simple joys of domestic life, have delivered a truly remarkable album.
Hydroplane :: Rockets (Schematic Music Company)
A twisted little gem of electronic pop, Rockets is a collection of tracks built around solid melodic melodies that constantly bend away from convention.
Dntel :: The Seas Trees See (Morr Music / Les Albums Claus)
Dntel has always been attuned to the minutiae that could elevate a song from a series of vague intentions into a fully formed experiment.