Features
Woo: A Room With A Woo
Since the early 1970s, brothers Mark and Clive Ives have been recording as Woo – arguably the UK’s most prolific DIY outfit. Two new albums, ‘Robot X’ and ‘Xylophonics’, raid their vast archive. And it all began with Uncle Fred’s musical saw
William Doyle: High Hopes
Shortlisted for a Mercury Prize under his previous guise as East India Youth, William Doyle has evolved into a scintillating solo artist. His new Eno-assisted album ‘Springs Eternal’ – steeped in ambitious and dreamy art-pop – is arguably his finest work yet
Blitz Club: Frills And Spills
Our oral history of the fabled nightspot taps into the memories and wild stories – subversiveness, fisticuffs, the night David Bowie turned up – of the Blitz Kids who were there
Kim Gordon: Only Connect
Kim Gordon made her name with US rock giants Sonic Youth, but her second solo album ‘The Collective’ continues her intriguing exploration of fractured hip hop beats and “abstract poetry fucked-up shit”
Lost Souls Of Saturn: Alternate Realities
As “multidimensional creative dissidents” Lost Souls Of Saturn, Seth Troxler and Phil Moffa fuse elements of techno, dub, house, jazz, psych and ambient into vivid and expansive new shapes. Enhanced by augmented reality, it’s quite the trip
Paranoid London: Punk Attitude
On their prog house-inspired new album ‘Arseholes, Liars And Electronic Pioneers’, provocative electronic duo Paranoid London are as anarchic, unfiltered and gloriously engaging as ever
Reviews
Squarepusher ‘Dostrotime’ (Warp)
Shape Shifting
Synth East 2024, Norwich Arts Centre
Three days of electronic music fun curated by Electronic Sound and Molten Modular
Live: Roger Eno
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 25 February 2024
Live Sessions
ESLS017 – Bodega
Brooklyn’s post-punk art rock stylings hit the Electronic Sound studio
ESLS016 – Ultramarine
Electronica blends into a sound art experience in the Electronic Sound studio
ESLS015 – Hifi Sean & David McAlmont
Men and machines in perfect harmony in the ES studio
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Pinhdar
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Pinhdar
Throbbing Gristle at Butler’s Wharf (December, 1979)
Writer and zine-machine David Elliott reflects on the immersive and life-changing experience of seeing Throbbing Gristle play live at Butler’s Wharf in December 1979
Crisp Wolves
It’s a Scandi affair
Matthew Barnes – aka Forest Swords
On his latest album, ‘Bolted’, the distinctive “sonic vocabulary” of producer Matthew Barnes – aka Forest Swords – feels more expansive than ever. Given his wide-ranging influences, it’s no surprise
VLURE
Glaswegian rave punks set their sights
Robert Hood ‘Rhythm Of Vision’
Robert Hood’s 1994 album ‘Minimal Nation’ stripped techno back to its vital organs, marking the birth of an entirely new way to feel a genre. The Detroiter reveals the story behind one of its standout moments, ‘Rhythm Of Vision’
Stone-Cold, Floor-Slamming
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) are “bangers”
Nakayama Munetoshi
Music for, er, hairports
Maria
Welcome to the “post-religious cabaret”