SBTRKT Lets the Beats and the Vocals Shine on Save Yourself
In the end, SBTRKT's Save Yourself represents what you want from a stellar producer: a combination of fantastic music and wonderful arrangements.
electro pop
electro pop
Charli XCX Gets Hard on the Vroom Vroom EP
Charli XCX goes into an exciting creative direction on Vroom Vroom, but she is trying to create a hard-edged persona for herrself out of thin air.
Album Review: School of Seven Bells – SVIIB
SVIIB is not a door closing on School of Seven Bells, it’s a door opening into the rest of Alejandra Deheza’s life and career. SVIIB is excellent.
Record Review: Majical Cloudz – Wait & See EP
Majical Cloudz does strike out in a new direction with The Wait & See, but it does so with a well-stocked collection of tools from its earlier efforts.
Album Review: Disclosure – Caracal
If the Lawrence Brothers are proud of Caracal, then I’m happy for them. Disclosure certainly know how to make a better electro-pop tune than I do.
Grimes: Welcome to Realiti
From start to finish, Art Angels is not only Grimes strongest album yet but one of the best I’ve heard this year, or any year. Claire Boucher is genius.
Album Review: Four Tet – Morning/Evening
Morning/Evening is the record you should use to introduce people to the Four Tet aesthetic. It is the most focused piece of work in his entire canon.
Album Review: Alpine – Yuck
In the end, Alpine's second full length Yuck is an invitation to take the difficulties in one's love life, and dance through them.
Album Review: Fyfe – Control
In finding himself and finding his sound on Control, Fyfe helps us find that life and love is a little more relatable than the world might have us believe.
Album Review: Holly Herndon – Platform
Holly Herndon has crafted a superior album that presents the ins and outs of experimental electronic music in inventive ways that will appeal to people, no matter how familiar they might be with the genre.