Gorgeous, front to back. Listen to this thing immediately.

Cool beats, the voice tone is so arresting and funky!!!

Blunt/Robertson >>> Lennon/McCartney

Fab

Thaaats more like it!! Charli finally showing off more of that Lou Reed interest she’s teased at for the past couple of years. Gorgeous outro.

Icarus...

Next level stuff from the lads. Public Enemy passion with Prodigy production.

Squarepusher is still trying to push it further, and he ain't no square about it.

I was lucky enough to see four tet play late last year, the guy is such a vibe. He turns up in an old tee shirt and cargo shorts, pops his beaten up tote bag next to the decks and gets straight to work. He looks like a barista just clocking in for a lazy tuesday shift and suddenly takes a churning crowd on a sweeping sonic journey. Rounds is great, many a-purists favourite from Kieran and almost for me too but not quite (I'm a new energy guy myself). It is the first Tet album to fully ... read more

Hell yeah. Picton knows what's up. People are going to compare this endlessly to The New Sound, even though they are completely different directions taken from the Black Midi junction (I prefer this over TNS but that is very much a personal preference thing, still love u Greepster xx).

However, I will still make a Windmill-adjacent comparison to this, for I feel it shares a very similar aesthetic sensibility to BC,NR's Forever Howlong. To be frank this album takes the baroque, ... read more

UNDERWORLD FANS, YOU SLEEP ON BARKING!!

People who call this their "pop" album misunderstand that Underworld has always been "pop" in a sense... This is music for the masses, they're just dropping a few of their "mysterious" prog-dance flavours and are getting straight to the point this time.

Everybody chirping about how the boys are now "washed" as if they haven't been since Room on Fire. Comedown Machine was inconsistent but easily the most interesting thing they've released since, and I've never wrapped my head around how much love The New Abnormal still receives... Just because an album has a good opener and closer doesn't excuse how much meandering filler lies between those two tracks. This song is wack and it's not autotune's fault. ... read more

I've always felt that if Daft Punk were electrifying the kids on the dancefloor upstairs, Air would be downstairs in the basement lounge soundtracking the fortysomethings getting their freak on. This album may be the freakiest of the bunch! Air takes their electro-lounge-act into progressive territories on 10,000 Hz Legend, and most of the experiments pay off nicely. Yeah, there are a few lulls across the track list, but I'm pretty forgiving in this context because you can hear the ... read more

It's good, it's not great. Slow start, followed by an absolutely incredible three track run from The Peace to Lovefield. The rest on the backend are solid tunes (post-hyperpop timbaland vibes?) but never quite reaches the heights of the albums middle-run.

A year on, nearly to the day, and it's time to talk about Forever Howlong. A bit of background first: I've been into this band for a while, not quite Nervous Conditions-era "a while", but more like 2019 singles and youtube windmill sets "a while".

In early 2019 a friend showed me a little single by the band Black Midi called bmbmbm. It kind of re-wired my brain, and from that day forward I became obsessed with finding everything out everything I could about this ... read more

It's coming up on five years since Amyl & the Sniffers released their brilliant peak-punk revival - Comfort to Me. And it bloody well HOLDS THE FUCK UP. I see this as a landmark album that dragged Australian rock music out of a dark slump it had in the late 2010's - the bands that came out after Tame Impala went massive are truly dire: Lime Cordiale, Ocean Alley, Spacey Jane... these triple j fodder bands deserve prison time for sand-swept numbness they plagued our music scene ... read more

Definitely a debut album, but a damn fine one. Autechre at their most warm and comforting. While I prefer the cold, angular glitch of releases like Amber, there is a lot to love here.

256 pi (AKA. The Wonky Angle from yt) has that sauce!!! No serious electro-reinvention is going on here but it is a satisfying, layered and diverse love letter to all sorts of EDM genre's. Gorgeous transitions take you from track to track with grooves galore and gorgeous melodies, I'm particularly a fan of the pianos and keys prevalent on the back end. If you enjoy any kind of dance music I cannot recommend this enough, cop that bandcamp FLAC file and enjoy the journey. My biggest ... read more

While there is fantastic production from front to back on this, there are pockets of the record where the writing leaves a bit to be desired. You can get away with a small handful of duds on a lot of longer pop albums, but with a sub-30 minute project from one of the 21st centuries true pop-royals, I was hoping for something a bit more all-killer-no-filler. The opening 3 tracks are fantastic and showcase Robyn's signature talent - capturing a pure sense of euphoria in a three minute ... read more

Cool album! Shinra's brand of drill n bass is constantly exciting, and through the chaotic breakdowns/structural switchups he finds some tasteful emotional swells. Highlight tracks "Jealous Type" and "Girl Missing" are some of the best in the genre to drop this decade.