The quartet’s second act is a giant leap forward into broad and playful new sonic waters.“The main reason that ‘post-punk’ was the vehicle for album one was because it was really affordable to do, but we always liked so much other music and this time we've had the confidence to embrace it,” james explains. across the record, influences ranging from fela kuti to ennio moricone via spiller’s ‘00s pop smash […]
The Cincinnati synth-punk trio dials up the energy on a zippy new album. Cincinnati’s the Serfs share significant lineup overlap with the Drin, the gnarled and scuzzy post-punk/garage-rock band whose January LP Today My Friend You Drunk The Venom was one of winter’s most pleasant surprises (if you can say such a thing about a band whose default mode tends to be ugly). Now it’s the Serfs’ turn in the spotlight. Friday, […]
John Dwyer and Osees continue on their interminable exploration of their gonzo-garage synth-punk minds on new album Intercepted Message. The 27th OSEES album is their most synthheavy yet, but those Blurt-like grooves are still in place and the songwriting is still tight as a gnat’s chuff on a record that in typical Osees style ranges all over the shop from new wave to skronk to punk to disco. INTERCEPTED MESSAGE […]
Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince dive into their new album, God Games Garage rock duo The Kills drop by to catch up with Kyle Meredith about their latest album, God Games, and more. Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince talk through the challenges they put in place for themselves — including picking up instruments they had never played before — when working on this new LP, as well as the magic they find in naiveté. They […]
Crime & the City Solution - the killer Crime return with their sixth studio album, and first in 10 years. Out now. the killer by Crime & the City Solution
The eight-track record explores the latent potential in trance to evoke, beyond euphoria, the fullest feeling of the sublime. 01. on embers 02. yxguden (ft. bladee) 03. the beach 04. nobody else 05. silence 06. xkyrgios 07. with me (ft. merely) 08. run boys run Revanchist by Evian Christ source: warp.net
Inspired by how she feels at the moment, what direction she’s facing, the people she’s surrounded by, and the energy of the location, YoshimiO uses the piano and her voice to create sound. IzumikiYoshi uses a microphone to pick up the raw sounds created by YoshimiO and feeds it through his modular synthesizer, where the sounds undergo spectral processing and modulation. These electronic tones are combined and mixed again with YoshimiO’s live sounds in […]
In Lopatin’s words, 'Again' is in part “a speculative autobiography,” a transmission, a spellbound backwash of digital languages and sonic paranoias, what’s remembered and what’s forgotten, all presented in OPN’s trademark melodic touch. TRACKLIST 01. ELSEWARE 02. AGAIN 03. WORLD OUTSIDE 04. KRUMVILLE 05. LOCRIAN MIDWEST 06. PLASTIC ANTIQUE 07. GRAY SUBVIOLET 08. THE BODY TRAIL 09. NIGHTMARE PAINT 10. MEMORIES OF MUSIC 11. ON AN AXIS 12. UBIQUITY ROAD […]
Water Damage are a Texas-based drone supergroup of sorts. Recording for Gerard Cosloy’s 12XU imprint, the band brings together Mari Maurice aka More Eaze, Thor Harris (formerly of Swans and a billion other things), and members of bands such as Spray Paint, USA/Mexico, Marriage, and Black Eyes. As the pedigree suggests, they’re quite adept at wringing beauty out of ugliness. Rather than songs, Water Damage deal in lengthy “reels” that […]
