Fans of chiptune artists like DJ Scotch Egg will be aware of the central role played by Commodore 64 music in 90s and 00s gabba/breakcore; more recently, contemporary acts such...
Damien Jurado’s last album was a game changer. Having spent 15 years churning out folk/folk-rock albums that were sometimes excellent, but otherwise showed little sign of progression, Saint Bartlett saw...
At times, progressive hardcore can be something of a joyless business. Hailing from Holy Roar Records, the same stable that gave us the excellent and refreshingly exuberant Rolo Tomassi, Crocus...
At this stage, it’d be mad to expect sweeping changes from a new Lambchop record, and the loungy, intricate and patient Mr. M (Mr. Met until a libelous baseball mascot...
Shearwater have come a long way from their origins as a humble side project for songwriters and former Austin roommates Jonathan Meiburg and Will Sheff. In the past ten years,...
There’s something reassuring about a new Windy and Carl release: despite the music’s drifting, anti-material qualities, its tendency to slip through the fingers, their boundless faith in the possibilities and...
Die Hard, impossible to Google without receiving a flurry of John McClane-based results, are borne of Glasgow label Halleluwah Hits, which also brought us the excellent Dam Mantle. Die Hard...
Icarus’ ninth album presents something of a conundrum for reviewers. Fake Fish Distribution reconfigures the notion of limited edition physical releases for a digital environment, restricting its purchase to 1000...
Without wishing to sound like an ambassador for Mixmag, it wouldn't be inaccurate to suggest that hedonism and intoxication are cornerstones of dance music culture. Tethered tightly to classicist strains...
Unlike their Mogwai/Shellac-endorsed Spanish namesakes, this French sextet ply a decidedly sinister trade in dark, noise-infused trip-hop combined with huge atmospherics and oddball industrial weirdness. Quite a combination. The general...
You'll have a pretty solid idea of what to expect from the second half of Earth's latest opus if you've been paying any attention to their output over the past...
Album number four from the brothers Brewis is a notable departure from 2010’s Measure, which, like its title denotes, was restrained by a more ‘classic’ songwriting structure. Plumb is a...
There’s little point in expecting the unexpected from German electronic pioneer Ulrich Schnauss. His shtick is a synthesised swoon from which he rarely strays. But a penchant for consistency isn’t necessarily...
The thing about doing a remix album on Ninja Tune is that you pretty much have the pick of the electronic music scene's most exciting contemporary talent to choose from,...
There’s much to admire about Matthew Bourne – the good grace with which he takes being regularly confused with the ballet choreographer of the same name, for instance, or his...
You can see why much of The Law’s reputation has come from their live shows: I’d hazard their music sounds best when you’re a few jars down and feeding off...
Combining the beefy riffs of Tad Kubler, (erstwhile member) Franz Nicolay’s organ whirs and one-man sideshows and the pissed-up paeans of Craig Finn, The Hold Steady were one of North...
It’s hard to believe that this is Mark Lanegan’s first solo album in eight years; such is the profile of the Seattle scene survivor who has assuredly become the soulful...
Recorded entirely in drummer/producer David Maclean’s bedroom with nothing but rickety gear, Django Django, a London-based group of former Edinburgh College of Art students, release a debut record that sounds...
The new direction that third album No One Can Ever Know maps out for The Twilight Sad shouldn’t be too much of a curveball for avid fans. The trimmed-down Kilsyth...
