Monthly Archives: June 2011

Here’s the track Crystalline from Bjork’s new behemoth multi-media project Biophilia. Not only is she releasing am album, but there will be an iPad suite with an app for every track, each conceived by a different designer, a travelling exhibition showcasing one of a kind instruments (including a 30 foot bass playing pendulum) and an [...]

It can be a bit of a lottery these days listening to new Ninja Tunes releases, some of them veering more toward style than substance, but Eskmo blends a dash of mainstream cool with wicked juddery beats, field recordings, off kilter vocals and throughout a sense of the unexpected to make what is, in my [...]

Battles are a band that have deservedly blown up recently. Their brand of choppy, beat driven math-rock is something that, while imitated by others and possessing identifiable contemporaries, is instantly recognisable and, in my opinion, a cut about the rest. I’ve been waiting to see them live for a long time, which is why I [...]

A great stream of podcasts from Nicolas Jaar’s label Clown and Sunset. CLOWN & SUNSET PODCASTS by Clown and Sunset

Here is a preview stream of the beautiful new album The Miners’ Hymns by Icelandic born composer Johann Johannsson. Scored for 16 piece brass ensemble, church organ and electronics, and recorded live at Durham cathedral, it is the score to the film of the same name (trailer below) by avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison about the [...]

It’s been a few days since I’ve got my act together to post anything, but here’s something really special. Hauschka, the alias of German born Volker Bertelmann, has been going from strength to strength in the last few years, using the vehicle of prepared piano to create some vastly innovative and engaging albums. His approach [...]

After seeing Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, or Lichens, support Tony Conrad a few weeks ago I found some of his work on the amazing netlabel newotherthing. It’s ambient, frightening, soothing, tranquil, violent, and everything else in between. There were moments during his live show, when he was shrieking into the microphone and appearing to be [...]

Beautiful, genre splicing work from Francis Bebey. He mixes different African traditional musics with pop and psychedelia to produce a sound sometimes funny, sometimes serious, but always atmospheric and a bit weird. As usual, get it here