An obsession with music
The similarly vibrant orange cover of Homeshake’s sophomore album, Midnight Snack, is delicately brushed to the bottom of my trustiest surfboard. The board rips, the album rips, and I realised … Continue Reading REVIEW: Homeshake – Helium
Leaving unfathomably harsh, emotionless and unstructured noise in the late-80’s/90’s, Hino understands that shock-value noise has no place in the present day. I was never expecting such noise coming into … Continue Reading REVIEW: 日野繭子 [Mayuko Hino] – Lunisolar
“Bisexuals on stage eating fruit loops” I’m torn with Sex Style, as I’m not sure if Keith’s trying to parody the overly-sexualised 90’s hip-hop scene, or if he’s just extremely horny. … Continue Reading REVIEW: Kool Keith – Sex Style
I’ve had a crack of producing a few ambient tracks just like every man and his dog seems to have done these days and I’ve come to the conclusion that … Continue Reading REVIEW: Tim Hecker – Mirages
Criminally underrated and overlooked, Earl Sweatshirt’s (AKA Thebe Kgositsile) 2015 LP, I Don’t Like Shit I Don’t Go Outside is an unflinchingly honest discussion of Earl’s personal struggle through drug … Continue Reading REVIEW: Earl Sweatshirt – I Don’t Like Shit I Don’t Go Outside
As bittersweet as realising you’ve spelt her last name incorrectly for about the 15th time, Haley Heynderickx’s debut is as hopeful as it is inwardly existential. I Need to Start … Continue Reading REVIEW: Haley Heynderickx – I Need to Start a Garden
An absolutely filthy album, guaranteed to make you feel guilty of ever laughing, smiling, or being happy and encouraging you to feel like complete shit in the most phenomenal way … Continue Reading REVIEW: The Body – I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer
Where to start… If there’s any album which perfectly encapsulates the feeling of being in a manic, drugged out state of being, through both the extreme highs and desolate lows, … Continue Reading REVIEW: Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
1979 was an undeniably heavy year for Evans, with his brother’s suicide and his cocaine dependency hitting a pivotal high, yet he still managed perform this set in Paris in … Continue Reading REVIEW: Bill Evans – The Paris Concert (CD1)
Just like many performing noise artists, well, real noise artists who understand and compose cacophony as something more than aural shock value, the sounds of Pedestrian Deposit are comprised physically … Continue Reading REVIEW: Pedestrian Deposit – Fatale
Abstract variations of droney instrumentals mix with outsider beats and introspective slam-poetry style rapping on Pink Navel’s most personal release yet. Polished, synth-driven production slither between melancholic themes, illustrating bittersweet … Continue Reading REVIEW: Pink Navel – raw navel
“Feminism never ends, sadly” – Jenny Hval The music industry seems to let a lot of things pass, get brushed under the rug. So why do some seem to always … Continue Reading REVIEW: Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
Although ironic to say, this live set of unadulterated Detroit techno is so humanesque. It’s not straight-down-the-middle, calculated or cold. It’s not uniform and not overtly chaotic. That doesn’t sound … Continue Reading REVIEW: Jeff Mills – Live at the Liquid Room, Tokyo
Often imitated, never replica(n)ted Blade Runner is among my favourite films ever made. And so much of what makes Blade Runner great and allows it to continue to endure today … Continue Reading REVIEW: Vangelis – Blade Runner
“I lost my liquid tongue for the wet pen” To me, the pinnacle of hip hop, although it’s not the easiest thing to call hip hop in the first place. Everything … Continue Reading REVIEW: cLOUDDEAD – cLOUDDEAD
Taking a Hot Shower on a Cold Winter’s Night I once saw someone describe listening to this phenomenal record as the same as ‘taking a hot shower in the middle … Continue Reading REVIEW: My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
