Andy Bell Shares the Stories Behind Erasure’s New Album, ‘The Neon’
The Neon is a place that lives in the imagination. It could be a night club, a shop, a city, a cafe, a country, a bedroom, a restaurant, any place at all. It’s a place of possibility in warm, glowing light and this is music that takes you there. Written and produced by Erasure, the […]
Goldmund’s Latest
Single Leaves Us
Hanging Like an
Arthouse Film
Keith Kenniff has shared the second official single from his looming Goldmund LP, The Time it Takes (Western Vinyl, October 16th). Streaming below, right alongside a previously released piece, “For a Time” is a teaser of a track — over as soon as it’s begun. And all the better for it. Here’s how it all […]
Marta De Pascalis
Embraces the
Experimental Side
of Italian Music
Words MARTA DE PASCALIS For most of his life, my grandfather worked as a tailor for RAI (Italy’s national public broadcasting company). When he died, I found a box of mostly sealed vinyl featuring Italian library music, soundtracks and plays, and experimental music from the ’60s and ’70s. That box was a treasure trove for […]
Sonja Tofik Announces
Debut Album, Anomi
Sonja Tofik — a longtime member of Stockholm’s dearly missed Drömfakulteten collective — has announced her first proper LP, a haunting collection of electroacoustic, ambient, and drone music that sounds as if it were beamed from the great beyond or another dimension entirely. Which makes sense; Anomi (due out October 30th through Marlena Salonen and […]
Heinali Melds
Generative Music
With the Middle Ages
On Madrigals
Heinali has revealed his second record of the year, a deeply researched detour from last spring’s loose session with saxophonist Michael Balog. Due out November 13th through the stellar ambient / experimental label Injazero Records, Madrigals draws a direct link between the polyphonic melodies of the Renaissance period and the heady, math-driven harmonies of modular […]
Damian Lazarus
Makes Us a Mixtape
of Psychedelic Jazz
and Broken Beat
"Pure evil, pure darkness, pure beauty"
Olan Monk Unveils
New Love/Dead Video
Photo RENATA MOTTIRONI Olan Monk has shared another piece of the puzzle that is his Love/Dead LP, a collaboration with acclaimed Russian artist Maria Gorodeckaya that gets straight to the heart of Monk’s heavy pop music. Here’s what he had to say about the clip, along with a complete stream of the multi-faceted musician’s bleak […]
E-Saggila Announces New
Hospital Productions LP
Building on the momentum of last week’s Anima Bulldozer 12”, E-Saggila has lined up her first Hospital Productions LP. Due out November 20th on red and green splattered vinyl — or black if you’re more of a purist — Corporate Cross is a proper front-to-back album that delivers on the promise of previous releases through […]