Brash beauty

I knew nothing about Julian Lage before beginning to listen to this album, on the recommendation of James Beaudreau (an … More

Luminous possibilities

Cwtch is a long-distance collaboration which concluded last year, between Paul Foster, a Welsh electronic music producer, and Marie Craven, … More

Worth digging

Funk Factory is something of a period piece. It comes from an era where the boundaries between jazz fusion and … More

Lining up their ducks

The Clash were one of the first bands I got into as a teenager—late as usual, they broke up just … More

A record to have and eat

If you read their website bio, Sanguine Hum have a convoluted creative background, balancing a wide range of interests and … More

A public meditation

Charlie Cawood is going places. I mean, I certainly hope he is going places in his career, but that’s not … More

Saccharine artillery

My awareness of Squarepusher began at uni, where I studied the bass guitar. Unsurprisingly, an out-there electronic producer, who also … More

Perfectly judged

Aaron Gibson’s songwriting is perfectly married to his delivery, each as gnarled and burnished as it is raw and young-at-heart. … More

Oblique unfolding

The world of stable objects and simple, obvious relations between them is not the real world. It’s one we like … More

This stomping mechanistic racket

This, stomping, mechanistic racket has the distinct sound of its era, despite sounding decidedly atypical. Its huge, rectangular, electronic drum … More

Plugged, but not hinged

If you’ve heard of Perhaps Contraption you’re probably under the impression that they’re an avant-garde brass band, and you may … More

Pale glimmerings of ambiguity

Singer-songwriter albums often foreground the songs, to the extent that there is more or less nothing to distinguish the way … More

A mysterious semantic plenitude

Yugen Blakrok is a rapper who’s been gaining some notoriety. She had a verse in the Black Panther soundtrack, she’s … More