Reviews

Nicholas Szczepanik :: Not Knowing (Desire Path)

Reviews 04/16/2014 by Alan Lockett

‘The dirt stuck in the crack that runs along the splintered baseboard in the closed-off half of the attic that no one ever enters.’ (Nicholas […]

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V/A :: Underground Wave Vol 4 (Walhalla)

Reviews 04/15/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

Certain old friends have been revisited with unheard offerings of angst and synth. Alongside these past artists come new names, forgotten and unknown artists and […]

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V/A :: An Introduction To (Soft)

Reviews 04/13/2014 by Owen Vince

An Introduction To is remarkable not simply for its range, but for the way that David Teboul has brought these different compositional voices together to produce […]

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Astrolobes and Electronics :: Mystic and Quantum Records

Profiles Reviews 04/13/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

Soulful sounds from the verdant forests of northern Spain. I don’t know if it’s my living here, but I’m constantly coming across more and more […]

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Porya Hatami :: Shallow (Tench)

Reviews 04/12/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

Porya Hatami seamlessly integrates his electronics with field recordings, and he seems safe, sound and enlightened in the middle of his own, private Eden in […]

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Atiq & EnK :: Embracing The Unknown (Mindtrick)

Reviews 04/11/2014 by James Knapman

Embracing The Unknown features enough inventive and complementary material to make it a must for those who really got into Fear Of The Unknown. Embracing […]

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Brett Naucke :: Seed (Spectrum Spools)

Reviews 04/09/2014 by Andy Gillham

Naucke is an expert at corralling the organic tumbling output of his modular experiments into a cohesive whole. Modular synths are unwieldy beasts to control. The […]

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Boreal & Lnrdcroy :: FP-003 (Forbidden Planet)

Reviews 04/09/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

Stirring sounds are subtly built, expressive tones painted with tender touches and full drum patterns. Montreal’s Forbidden Planet has had more than an impressive start. […]

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Ákos Garai :: The Imagined River (Kaon)

Reviews 04/09/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

Evoking the fog of ghosts hovering over the pale grey fields of asphodel, the realm of dreams. With its nineteenth recording, “La Rivière” keeps on […]

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Tlön :: Truth In The 13th (Birkhouse)

Reviews 04/06/2014 by Alan Lockett

A whirred world of kinetic scree slopes with synthetic colourings. ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’ (1962) is a Jorge Luis Borges parable, in which an article about […]

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Teppana :: Hento (Somehow)

Reviews 04/05/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

For their debut EP, Finland’s Teppana opens small and politely, a Baroque music box nestled among curly fallen leaves playing for an audience perched on […]

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