Working Men’s Club: Club Mix

byFat Roland
August 11, 2022

The 2020 self-titled debut album from Working Men’s Club won universal acclaim, but their follow-up, ‘Fear Fear’, is arguably even better – a glorious collision of “scuffed” electropop, clubby energy and outright bangers. Frontman Syd Minsky-Sargeant reveals its story

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Mogwai: The Devil’s in the Detail

byDavid Pollock

Think you know what to expect from this lot? Think again, because over the last two decades a subtle sound evolution has been at work. We lift the lid on the secret electronic life of Mogwai

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8 minute read

Secession: The one that got away

byMat Smith

Cool band, good-looking singer, major label deal, infectious tunes. the Top 40 beckoned for 1980s Glasgow outfit Secession… some 18 years after the death of frontman Peter Thomson, we tell the story of a group who shouldn’t have fallen by the wayside

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27 minute read

100 TRACKS OF TOMORROW

byES Staff

Musicians have been writing and recording tracks about the future since pretty much forever, and we’re marking our 100th issue with 100 of our favourite examples. They’re mostly electronic, of course, but you might find some surprises along the way…

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5 minute read

Automatic: Automatic For The People

byBob Fischer

Californian trio Automatic channel 21st century angst into brilliantly effervescent synth/post-punk nuggets – and somehow still find time……

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18 minute read

The Art of Noise: This, That, and the Other

byWyndham Wallace

Rebooted for the 21st century, completely unexpected and typically abstract, it’s once again time to ask, Who’s Afraid Of The Art Of Noise?

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9 minute read

Penelope Trappes: Heaven Up Here

bySharon O'Connell

Australian producer and ethereal soundscaper Penelope Trappes returns with the haunting ‘Heavenly Spheres’. Using just her voice, an upright piano and an old reel-to-reel, it’s a remarkable record steeped in phantasmal atmospherics and hypnagogic strangeness