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Despite their efforts to not be taken seriously, it’s obvious Viagra Boys are a deeply thoughtful and creative band. And they're intent on skewering everything and everyone in our bewildering topsy-turvy world, including most of all it seems, themselves. Continue Reading
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.
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.
The four tracks on the GAK EP are reportedly demos that Richard D James had sent to Warp Records before he was signed; which were then put out as an EP following the release of his second album on the label. Listening to these tracks, which I may have heard only once before, I can … Continue reading GAK – GAK EP
The only two releases Richard D James put out under the Bradley Strider alias, a nice little find if you're after some off-kilter but on-point rave fuel.
The title track is notorious as perhaps one of the most unlistenable pieces in electronic music.
Donkey Rhubarb is an odd release, as idiosyncratic and unsettling as Aphex Twin always is.
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