Reviews

QBLA :: Where The Girls Are Green and the Grass Is Pretty (Architects + Heroes)

Reviews 09/08/2013 by Pietro Da Sacco

QBLA is on a powerful mission to invade hip hop and transform its underground trajectory. Southern California’s William Rosario has quite a few tricks in […]

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Gastón Arévalo :: Rollin Ballads (Oktaf)

Reviews 09/08/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

Rollin Ballads is classically ambient, a watercolor wash of palpable, agreeable texture beneath which themes emerge and recur, amounting in a graceful, nine-movement suite beautifully […]

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Body 11 / Die Gesunden :: Double review (Medical)

Reviews 09/07/2013 by Robbie Geoghegan

Medical Records need little introduction on Igloo, but their latest duo of artists might. Body 11 is Tim Stickelbrucks, a German artist who was inspired […]

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Bule / Hunab :: Hera (Apparent Horizon)

Reviews 09/07/2013 by Robbie Geoghegan

A longing gaze back to the structures of Electronica is linked with smudges of Dub and Industrial to produce a hazy and soulful sound. A […]

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Conquering Animal Sound :: On Floating Bodies (Chemikal Underground)

Reviews 09/06/2013 by Andrew Danso

A seminal second record by the Scots, full of interesting detail and powerful songwriting. It’s hard not to feel that if Björk were to start again, […]

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Polysick :: Witness (MinimalRome)

Reviews 09/04/2013 by Robbie Geoghegan

Coming from a House of blackened floors and decaying morals, Polysick brandishes a drum machine like a butcher’s cleaver. There are too many definitions of […]

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Matmos :: The Marriage Of True Minds (Thrill Jockey)

Reviews 09/04/2013 by Andrew Danso

It’s all here, intended for some sort of psychological poke at electronica. John Cage would have loved this. Quite literally, experiment and study is at […]

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Jon Hopkins :: Immunity (Domino)

Reviews 09/01/2013 by James Knapman

Immunity takes things even further, those calm, classical moments becoming buried even deeper beneath aggressive blankets of hyper-advanced sound design and fizzling techno. When they […]

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Fancy & Spook :: Fiends Without Faces (Tabernacle)

Reviews 08/31/2013 by Robbie Geoghegan

Fancy and Spook often adhered to the “laws” of Electro, tight rhythm patterns alongside barren machine bars. The LP espouses a unique style. It is […]

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Brandon Hurtado :: Bonfires for Nobody (Self-Released)

Reviews 08/31/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

Harrowingly lonely at times, this gap in Hurtado’s life is a struggle conveyed in specific terms with universal implications. At some point we all have […]

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