ShambLen

“You saw the way we lived and what we did, do you believe?”

It’s been thirteen years since we last received signal from Boards of Canada. Two months ago we received mysterious messages, video tapes foretelling an oncoming revelation. Now as the world burns, the esoteric electronic duo emerge from their silence with Inferno. A warning. A prayer. An almighty, ominous and ethereal adventure. Or in other words, we just got a god tier comeback album.

Despite all of Boc’s ... read more

Genesis Owusu is back!
On REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE, the bitey hip-hop punk continues and with wider proportions than before.

As Black Dog turns on this album into BIG DOG, it’s definitively a less introspective and much more political work. Still characterised by big growling bars and spiky synth beats, it remains instantly recognisable as part of Owusu’s increasingly iconic style. These sonic tricks of his also fit the scary modern focus nicely and (despite some ... read more

Ring the alarm! Aurora and chemical brother, Tom Rowlands have come together for a vibrant and unexpected hit!

COME CLOSER is an all-caps bout of vocal EDM. The two artists each bring their most iconic of talents to be flexed with great cohesion. Aurora of course carries the album with her innately raw and pure vocals while Rowlands delivers all the flashy big beat electronics of the chemical brothers. It’s clean, confident and energetic.

Where the project most benefits though is how ... read more

It makes at lot of sense to hear this as an ex-Midi member’s turn towards baroque ‘pop’. My New Band Believe has the same rapid jangle strumming that boosts a lot of Black Midi’s octane. This is high octane too but the cheeky hedonistic irony that characterised a lot of Picton’s previous band has been turned on its head into something more reflective.

Picton continues this Windmillian trend of redirecting the perspective of a speaker to create a more demanding and ... read more