Excepting its mammoth run-time, With Love feels similar in both form and execution to Zomby's previous album, Dedication. This time the shadows are a little deeper, perhaps; the tone almost wistful on occasion...
"King Creosote and who??" was the cry from many a Scot when Anstruther's finest unveiled 2011's seminal collaborative work Diamond Mine. Largely unknown to fans of contemporary folk, Hopkins still had...
Planet Mu founder and UK electronic music veteran Mike Paradinas returns with a new album under his revered μ-Ziq guise, his first under that moniker since 2007. The album, written...
Utilising a single ten-second audio recording as the sole sound source for an entire LP, Matthew Herbert has created one of his boldest and most thought-provoking releases to date. The...
If you think the title of Ceremony’s opening instrumental Epitaph of Theodor sounds grandiose, wait till you hear its brooding church organ melody – an imposing herald for its majestic parent album....
Like fellow Tri-Angle associates Balam Acab and Holy Other, the 'witch house' tag simply doesn't fit oOoOO's debut album. It is perhaps better described as ethereal R&B – vocal samples from commercial...
This Seattle septet anchor their sound in the shamanistic explorations and bruising riffs of psych and stoner rock: the sonic texture of The Sun Dogs is unapologetically retro, but there’s a vitality,...
Serengeti's last LP for Anticon, C.A.R., had a refreshing sense of fun and humour to its loosely-scribbled hip-hop beats, with Jel and Odd Nosdam joining Serengeti for the recording sessions....
Despite escalating popularity at the time they called it quits, there’s a feeling that ISIS – not wishing to "push past the point of a dignified death” – inspired all the bong...
The press release for Jungle Revolution states that Congo Natty (aka Rebel MC) ‘sees jungle as a re-boot of roots reggae for a new century’, a bizarre claim for a genre that...
Frontiersmen and women of the ‘folktronica’ movement, Tunng have long blended gentle, well-rounded folk melodies with morsels of twee electronic experimentation, making music akin to a cosy hand-knitted cardigan with...
Loose and roaring, Brennisteinn – the opening gambit of Sigur Rós' seventh studio album – is the sound of the band getting nasty. Beneath Jón Þór Birgisson's languageless vocals (by...
After an initial release last year, this 7-track album of multi-tracked piano, violin and field recordings from Hidden Orchestra collaborator Poppy Ackroyd gets a full physical release, and it is...
Having previously pushed the boundaries of techno on his 2006 debut, James Holden's long-awaited sophomore album delves even deeper into the rhythmic roots of the genre, employing guitars, live percussion,...
Where 2008’s Future Chaos saw Bomb the Bass stripping away the clutter to deliver a sharp-edged, techno-tinged variant of their breakbeat/hip-hop template, In the Sun is a more sprawling affair. This is chiefly due...
Bristol's Sorrow is at the forefront of the post-dubstep movement, taking cues from the more atmospheric, musical end of the Hyperdub spectrum; he is one of the producers helping to...
Tomorrow's Harvest finds the Sandison brothers turning their backs on the halcyon warmth of 2005's The Campfire Headphase to deliver an album which speaks the language of trauma and uncertainty whilst still managing...
Having completed their Totem cycle of albums, everyone's favourite experimental psych-rock weirdos return with a new LP. It's still a decidedly conceptual work; playing out like a testing, soul-searching journey through barren...
A follow-up to her self-titled 2011 debut, Emika's DVA sees the artist collaborating with Hank Shocklee of The Bomb Squad on production duties, and recording with fellow Czech and soprano Michaela...
As their moniker might imply, Glasgow's Gastric Band are tight. There is barely an ounce of fat on debut album Party Feel: a wild-eyed odyssey encompassing all manner of weird and wonderful...
