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An overview of Tom Jenkinson’s take on jazz fusion, and his 3rd album on Warp Records, Music is Rotted One Note marked a step change from the IDM, drill’n’bass, jungle breakbeats of his earlier work. Music is Rotted One Note is an experimental and avant-garde album, and although I can’t say it’s a record I truly enjoy, in this album review I try to give it more than a fair hearing. Check out my video review
Big Loada was one of the first releases by Squarepusher that I got my hands on when I was around 17 or 18, and I'll say upfront it's one of my favourite releases by him and one of my favourite releases of all time - absolutely killer. Check out my video review
Hard Normal Daddy was Squarepusher's first album to come out on Warp Records, the label that would remain his home until the present day. Released in 1997, it’s a far more consistent and comprehensive artistic statement than his debut. Check out my video review
Britpop was one of those scenes where virtually none of the acts associated with it particularly relished the label, and in most cases actively rejected it. And of all the bands who rose to fame around that time, Pulp probably sat most uncomfortably of all under that banner. A band of misfits, fronted by the … Continue reading Pulp – More (2025) – Album Review
For Melancholy Brunettes is a more downbeat and reflective affair than its jubilant predecessor. But if anything, it’s an even more impressive accomplishment; an artful and complex record of interlocking layers and references that only reveals its rewards gradually.
Usually releasing a blend of glitch, IDM and various urban styles under her own name, Whatever the Weather is an outlet for Loraine James’ more ambient leaning work.
A true labyrinth of an album, Drukqs is a journey that might take you into the depths of your own psyche.
The Windowlicker track and video are so entwined it's difficult to separate the two. Landing in that confluence between analogue warmth and rubberised digital weirdness; the r'n'b cadences and human moans and groans always at the mercy of being overpowered by atonal walls of static and undanceable programmed rhythms.
The Come to Daddy mini album unites the disparate strands running through James' music as the time, with a deeply odd sense of urban decay.
The Richard D James Album is all the more impressive for its short duration, given the sheer breadth of creativity on display and how comprehensively James builds a self-contained sound-world that fizzes with contemporary influences yet exists purely on its own terms.
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