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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.
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.
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.
Jon Hopkins - Singularity (2018). Having played this repeatedly over the last couple of weeks, I can say this is a much stronger album than Immunity (Hopkins’ album prior to this, which I belatedly got round to listening to earlier this year). Maybe I judged that album a little harshly and will return to it … Continue reading 19/08/2020 This week I have been mostly listening to…
Fennesz - Black Sea (2008). I find myself listening to much more ambient music these days, as an appropriate backdrop for days spent working from home. Austrian artist, Christian Fennesz is often lauded for the very unusual way he makes use of the guitar in his music: combining it with digital effects to produce something … Continue reading 10/08/2020 This week I have been mostly listening to…
Kettel - My Dogan (2006). The Dutch musician, Reimer Eising, aka Kettel, is something of a rarity in electronic music circles (especially those tagged with the joyless term ‘IDM’) in that his tracks are by and large, exceedingly jolly. In what tends to be a very self-consciously serious genre of music, generated by circuit boards … Continue reading 30/07/20 This week I have been mostly listening to…
Meat Beat Manifesto - Impossible Star (2019). Every now and then you come across a band or artist which makes you wonder why on earth you weren’t listening to them years ago. To be fair, I have been vaguely aware of the descriptively named Meat Beat Manifesto for a long time, but never gave them … Continue reading 18/07/20 This week I have been mostly listening to…
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica (2011). Oneohtrix Point Never is probably my most ‘ignored’ electronic artist of the last decade. Universally lauded, he seems to be held in very high regard wherever I turn online. I tried to listen to a couple of tracks some years ago to see what all the fuss was about … Continue reading 14/07/20 This week I have been mostly listening to…
Sabres of Paradise - Sabresonic II (1995). I think it’s fair to say the Sabersonic albums are generally considered classics of 1990s electronic music. It was on this understanding that I bought it on CD years ago, when I was filling in what I perceived to be crucial gaps in my collection of Warp, Ninja … Continue reading 14/05/2020 This week I have been mostly listening to
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