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Review: BRAIDS, Deep In The Iris.
Normally, I’d be slightly loathed to confuse an opening gambit with a caveat, although so abnormal, or rather extraordinary (and with that, exceptional) a band have Calgary, Alberta’s BRAIDS now...
View ArticleTearrings, Kicking the Bottle (Disco-Dappled Redux).
It was no more than a mere few weeks ago that we first extolled the ‘indietronic’ capabilities and apparent proficiencies of enigmatic London-ensconced ensemble Tearrings, as demonstrated by the...
View ArticleReview: Purity Ring, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
Performing before what musically questionable fellow Canadians Born Gold consider “a mysterious digital forest,” Megan James and Corin Roddick – together, better known as future-pop pairing, Purity...
View ArticleKwabs, Fight For Love.
Having Pray[ed] For Love previously, stellar London neo-soulster Kwabs has changed tack somewhat with the latest number to emerge from his forthcoming début album, Love + War, hearing Adjepong...
View ArticleFirst Transmission: KnoR, It’s Happening.
Injecting genuine emotion into primarily electronic music can be rather difficult; so much so, in fact, that it has repeatedly proven a pretty much insurmountable stumbling block for many a pretender....
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Fest Bests: Sónar 2015.
While many more inchoate events these days opt for various, invariably derivative novelty themes year on year, Barcelona’s Sónar benefits not only from being set in the seemingly permanently...
View ArticleFirst Transmission: TRILLS, Gold (Drones Club Remix).
While the TRILLS moniker, when slipped into quotidian conversation, might sound like a diabolical impersonation of a degenerate, generic Irishman recalling one of the oughties’ umpteen forgotten...
View ArticleHEALTH, Stonefist.
Whilst concertedly uncategorisable L.A. outfit HEALTH have repeatedly defied expectation, instead delivering wilfully schizophrenic cuts of thrusting genius at each and every turn, few would have ever...
View ArticleReview: HEALTH, The Dome.
At their very core, HEALTH may be harder than anything on this coming weekend’s Download rundown. Nevertheless, that nucleus is now surrounded by a considerably softer crust, that tonight sees the...
View ArticleRudi Zygadlo, Sympathies Scrapbook.
“Suck a plum like a thumb!” Rudi Zygadlo’s back, and Sympathies Scrapbook (below) could well be his very best in a pretty brilliant, and mercifully forever lengthening, line of warped, wonderfully...
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Review: Sónar 2015.
“Barcelona’s a city everybody comes to to fuck, and get fucked up” my wily host for a first of five nights proudly informs me, having traded Detroit for the Catalan capital several years ago. And with...
View ArticleReview: CHINAH, The Lexington.
“The winter has made me want it more” sings Fine Glindvad, as Away from Me – the suitably brumal début single by nascent Danish three-piece, CHINAH – begins; but astonishingly, with no more than a mere...
View ArticleFirst Transmission: Vaginaboys, Ekki Nóg.
What Grímur Atlason et al. have done in Reykjavík, with Iceland Airwaves, is ultimately, in my humble opinion, genuinely ingenious: international festival-goers are, first and foremost, attracted to...
View ArticleCHINAH, Minds.
Whereas the world was once united in the opinion that the States was the go-to place for all things R&B, slowly yet surely, it would look as though attentions are instead turning toward some more...
View ArticleFirst Transmission: bat or, soleil.
The sun has, seemingly, well and truly settled into hibernation for the brumal months, winds and rain the apparent default henceforth; nonetheless, that’s not to say you shouldn’t bask in bat or’s...
View ArticleFirst Transmission: GIVERS, Growls.
Awash with fizzling, lithe synth lines and fluttering, layered vocal harmonies, GIVERS’ luscious Growls proves eminently reminiscent of Yeasayer’s seminal Odd Blood long-player. However, whereas their...
View ArticleFirst Transmission: LORIS, Higher.
Electro-pop may not be the most voguish genre – more ‘de la dernière décennie’ than ‘du jour’, si tu veux – yet Belfast four-piece LORIS somehow manage to make lyrics which liken affection to addiction...
View ArticleLISS, Miles Apart.
It was only last Saturday that incipient Danish four-piece LISS stole The Great Escape 2016, and with the likes of Miles Apart contributing to what was an incredibly concise six-song setlist, it’s...
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