Clinic are a thoroughly idiosyncratic band and while there’s always been a manic edge to their music, on Wheeltappers they’re seething as well.
Clinic – Wheeltappers and Shunters (2019)
Category: Reviews
Album reviews
Actress – Karma and Desire (2020)
With Karma and Desire, Actress has cemented his place as one of electronic music’s most beguiling and confounding artists.
Ekoplekz – Reflekzionz (2015)
Listening to Reflekzionz reminds me of flicking through a scrapbook of faded photographs of scenes from nondescript British towns. There's something soothing and nostalgic in the grainy distortion of these 12 compositions, and the simple chiming melodies that pierce through the clouds of fuzz.
Throwing Muses – Sun Racket (2020)
After more than three decades, Kirstin Hersh's fearless creativity has not diminshed one iota; and the sound her band kick out is as powerful and uncomprimsing as ever. Continue reading
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Paper Mâché Dream Balloon
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are a band celebrated as much for a constant willingness to experiment as for their prolificness, and ability to package their varied musical experiments into coherent and distinctive albums.
Fennesz – Agora (2019)
Each of the four extended tracks on Agora is an all-encompassing monolithic wash of sound, with few aural landmarks to guide you once you’re in the midst of it. But despite their towering stature that’s not to say the music isn’t pretty - it’s lovely.
TVAM – Psychic Data (2018)
On Psychic Data, TVAM (aka Joe Oxley) combines shoegaze, electro, krautrock, industrial and a truckload of analogue synths to produce a sound that's unique but instantly familiar.
The Connection Machine – Painless
The Connection Machine are a Dutch male-female duo (a relatively rare combination in techno?) and though this album was released in 2004, the tracks are all some 10 years older than that. They would have been released on Carl Craig’s Planet-E label, but for some reason or another that never happened. We should be glad … Continue reading The Connection Machine – Painless
Global Goon – Cradle of History
Global Goon - Cradle of History (1998 - Rephlex) Like many people (I imagine), I first encountered Global Goon on the excellent, Braindance Coincidence. A compilation celebrating 10 years of Rephlex Records and their boundless, eclectic, debonair genre: braindance. For someone looking for an introduction to the aesthetic, the Goon track on that CD, Long … Continue reading Global Goon – Cradle of History
Sender Berlin – Gestern Heute Morgen
Yesterday, today, tomorrow. An appropriate translation, as this is timeless music. But then again, like so much high quality techno music, it contains the seeds of its past, the sound of now, and an eye on the future horizon. So yes, timeless. In the case of this album I don’t mean timeless in the sense … Continue reading Sender Berlin – Gestern Heute Morgen
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