Experimental Electronic Music
Across a captivating ICA performance and the propulsive, gloriously unruly It’s Nothing Personal, Loraine James turns fractured rhythms, unconventional voices and restless electronic experimentation into something deeply human, proving that music’s greatest power lies not in perfection, but in its capacity to make instability feel alive.
A disorienting, sometimes brutal experience that demanded we surrender to the music, accepting the limits of our own bodies and senses, resulting in a concert that fully lived up to Autechre’s glorious reputation. Article by: Christopher Mathieu and Georges White
What Answers pulls off, mostly, is conjuring a nostalgic feeling attached to nothing specific. Tape hiss, degraded loops, half-remembered melodic phrases, none of it points at an actual memory. It just borrows the texture of one and hands it to you empty, letting you fill in whatever it’s supposed to be about. That’s a strange trick for two artists to pull off together, especially two who built this thing without ever being in the same room.
There’s no dancefloor here, no need to lock into a groove or deliver a drop. Instead, Paap is chasing sound for sound’s sake, pushing stereo dynamics, distorting drum loops until they fray, stretching reverbs until they fill entire rooms.
Boards of Canada return in unmistakable form, diving deep into the shadowy downtempo atmosphere that made them legendary — a hypnotic state of consciousness suspended between nostalgia, decay, and dreamlike transmission. “Introit” and “Prophecy At 1420 MHz” are the first two tracks unveiled from the forthcoming album Inferno, arriving May 29, 2026 on Warp Records.
If Tomorrow’s Harvest was the collapse of the physical world, Inferno is the processing of the digital soul. We have moved from a famine of the body to a harvest of the mind.
Boards of Canada today announce Inferno, their first full-length release in thirteen years, marking a significant return for the influential Scottish electronic duo. This forthcoming record expands their unmistakable sonic identity, introducing a darker, more intricately layered atmosphere that refracts their hallmark sense of warped nostalgia through a more shadowed lens.
Seefeel return with Sol.Hz, their first full-length in fifteen years. Mark Clifford and Sarah Peacock — the core duo that’s anchored the band since its formation in the early 1990s, are back, and they haven’t strayed far from the blueprint. Seefeel built their reputation on blurring the line between shoegaze and electronic music, fusing guitar-based textures with ambient techno and dub production techniques.
Gratitude feels like the right place to begin—because without a chance introduction decades ago, this remarkable record might never have found its way into the world.
Over 31 years ago, a casual tip from a friend in a Cambridge video store introduced me to Amber, an album that quietly reshaped the way I listened to music and still amazes me decades later.
Boards of Canada didn’t just shape how we hear music — they reshaped how we experience reality, and Geogaddi remains their most unsettling proof: a deliberately disorienting, symbol-laced descent where warmth masks dread and mystery is the message.
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