"Matmos' new record is an anthem to one of the leading causes of pollution to the planet in all its various forms. So here come the PVC pipelines, the bubble wrap, and the Styrofoam. But that is not all, with Matmos also exploring sound from silicone gel breast implants and even synthetic human fat! All […]
"Using cutting edge percussive tools, including smart triggers, drum pads, and MIDI controllers, it is the duo's vision to augment the acoustic drum kit. It is through this exploration that Turning Jewels Into Water find a place where the ritualistic origins of music and rhythm meet with the digital realm" - PopMatters offers some avantgarde […]
"Roberto Carlos Lange’s sixth and best album as Helado Negro deepens and expands upon the imagistic nature of his lyrics and cosmic synth-folk. It is a sublime, masterful piece of music" - Pitchfork.
"It’s the sort of mood that could suspend itself over a day or month or year. And as a musical statement, it’s Kehlani casually, unhurriedly, staking her spot in that next year, or more" - Spin picks out new album by the American r'n'b singer.
"Three years after releasing the soul-baring opus 'A Seat at the Table', Solange has ditched traditional song structure and world-weary lyrics for a sonically and thematically ambiguous record that feels freer, and less burdened by the white gaze" - Pitchfork.
For the first time in almost two decades, this haywire tandem goes wild with their singularly subversive rock’n’roll... For all the admirers and imitators Royal Trux have amassed in absentia, no one else can make music like this - Pitchfork. Listen to their new song 'White Stuff' here.
"It’s fired-up, it sounds more pointed and intentional and it makes you sit up and take notice of the intensely layered compositions that [Meg] Duffy has made... Duffy co-produced it with Brad Cook at April Base, the center for Justin Vernon’s coterie of musicians... Duffy has found themselves in a line of modern musicians that […]
"Intimate songwriting on delicate subjects intersects with bone-chilling horror—is the hallmark of Spelling’s short music career so far... Tia Cabral’s second album ['Mazy Fly'] retains the great mysticism of her songwriting. The unsettling synth textures and soundscapes fly around her soulful voice" - Pitchfork. Listen to 'Haunted Water' here.
"From beginning to end, the band makes sure to offer a variety of exciting compositions, maintaining their iconic doom core, while providing enough dynamic instrumentation to keep their material consistently engaging" - Consequence of Sound.
"Four black female banjo players wrestling with gender, race, slavery, sexual assault and the domination of the male gaze might make an admirable-if-arduous prospect, but this new collaboration proves by turns a proud, devastating, authoritative album made for our bewildering times" - Guardian reviews Our Native Daughters' album 'Songs of Our Native Daughters'. "Rhiannon Giddens, […]
Consequence of Sound recommends Australian rock-country singer-songwriter Julia Jackson's new album 'Crushing'. It is about "rediscovering what about herself she may have buried during a long-term relationship, without erasing the experiences that it created", a "reckoning with one’s mysterious and daunting personal potential than a reflection on someone else. Each track, in one way or […]
American funk and soul singer Chaka Khan has a new album 'Hello Happiness' which "has put a new spark in my career”, as she tells the Guardian ("vital calling card to remind everyone to come hear this unearthly voice, still sizzling with spice" the say in review). There she talks about addiction - "All through the […]
'Lines' is a trilogy of short albums (available singly or as a set) by english folk band The Unthanks, respectively focused on the poems of Emily Bronte, those of first world war writers, and a Maxine Peake drama celebrating Hull fishworker and and campaigner Lillian Bilocca. Unthank sisters Rachel and Becky have become national treasure - […]
"This album was largely crowdfunded via Pledge Music and was written remotely, from places as far flung as Chicago and São Paulo, where some members are now based, but it is seductively cohesive, glazed in experience... Their eponymous return is an immersive, invigorating and convincingly brooding stomp of disenfranchisement" - Guardian.
"The new project from Grouper’s Liz Harris contains some of her most beguiling work. Spread across two long, contrasting ambient compositions, her music remains in an enigmatic class of her own" - Pitchfork.
"Kelsie Hogue grew up in New Hampshire, the daughter of bohemian types, and she recorded 'Crush On Me' after a couple of pit stops — going to college and singing hardcore in Boston, trying her hand at weirdo comedy in Chicago. Somewhere along the way, Hogue discovered her own queerness, coming out as bisexual and nonbinary. And 'Crush […]
"Unpredictability is a rare and rather valuable commodity in a world of media-trained personalities and music dictated by the metrics of streaming services, and it’s something 'Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?' has in abundance. Far less aesthetically cohesive than 'Monomania' or 'Fading Frontier', it never settles, skipping without warning from harpsichord-bedecked psych-pop to icy Tubeway […]
Every sensible person should aspire to this precise degree of celebrity: Goldblum is rich enough not to have to worry about money again, yet he can still wander into a Trader Joe’s without a security detail. Goldblum also enjoys an offscreen hobby as an accomplished jazz pianist - Pitchfork reviews his debut album.
"It’s a film principally and poignantly focused on the absence of Whitney, an aching void felt as much in life as in death. Many of us missed Whitney even before she left; this imperfect documentary preys calmly and effectively on that longing" - Guardian writes about a new documentary, Kevin Macdonald’s 'Whitney' newly premiered at Cannes. And […]
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