Post Tagged with: "electronic"
Bonobo – The North Borders album review
Drawing heavily from his trip hop and jazz influences present on his previous four albums, Simon Green who records and performs under the name Bonobo, stays basically true to form with his latest studio release titled The North Borders, available now on Ninja Tune Records. The music begs to be played late at night, preferably after heavy drinking and exhausting shenanigans. Heavy syncopated drums loop over ambient synths and assorted other instruments to create down tempo electronica that depresses listeners [...]
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – Patterns EP review
Indie pop tweekers from Detriot, Daniel Zott and Joshua Epstein keep the Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. hype alive with the upbeat Patterns EP, their second major label release. The four songs that make up Patterns represent the duo’s ability to creatively mix excellent production and an all-out dance party. Their vibrant pop-songs tend to provide extra surprises in every bar, making for eclectic combinations that keep listeners anxious. The vibe of Patterns is ultimately a dance-able blend of pop styles [...]
IAMX – The Unified Field album review
Best known as the leader and founding member of the British trip-hop group aptly titled “Sneaker Pimps,” London/Berlin based Chris Corner recently released his fourth album since 2004 entitled “The Unified Field” under the moniker IAMX. Produced by Adele and The Arctic Monkey’s producer, Jim Abbiss, the tracks on “The Unified Field” showcase stunning cinematic musical landscapes that are anything but lackluster. If I had to give a brief explanation to IAMX’s sound, I’d say it has a Phantom of [...]
Letting Up Despite Great Faults – Untogether album review
If you like Postal Service, Ringo Deathstarr, and The Depreciation Guild, you’ll love Letting Up Despite Great Faults. I am familiar with Letting Up, but back when they were still pretty underground. Times have changed and this band has amped up their popularity. They’re previous albums weren’t as “electronic” as their new album, Untogether, but it definitely fits with today’s theme of musical influences and tastes. Letting Up is not a band for hardcore, or punk rockers, despite having basic rock song [...]
Yeasayer – Fragrant World album review
If I say that Yeasayer’s new release brings to mind images of a futuristic-electronic-R&B voyage through outer space with occasional stints in the desert—complete with Cubist wardrobe and/or perspective—then you’ll know that Fragrant World is anything but a banal experience. Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, the quintet band formed in 2006 with members Chris Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton, Anand Wilder, Ahmed Gallab, and Jason Trammell. Performing at SXSW festival in 2007 led to the release of their first album All [...]
Dirty Art Club – Hexes album review
The sky, stars, planets, constellations. Asian fusion. Dark crypts and cellars, creepy vibes, Halloween. The ‘70s, tan leather, sideburns, psychedelic culture. Bright colors, vivid block-lettered graffiti, hip hop swag. What do these images have in common? Why, they might be none other than a fraction of the images conjured up in one’s mind as they venture into Dirty Art Club’s second album, appropriately named “Hexes.” North Carolina-native Dirty Art Club producers Matt Cagle and John “Madwreck” McKiever have already recently [...]
Future Sounds of Buenos Aires album review
I’ve never thought South America to be a hotbed for emerging artists. Argentina’s ZZK Records and LA based Waxploitation Records have come together to produce this compilation record of the best emerging artists from Buenos Aires: Future Sounds of Beunos Aires. This compilation features a lot of electronic music is not the kind most North Americans have grown accustomed to for the past few years. Sure, there are a lot of similarities: synths, bass, and just pure garbled sci-fi sounds, [...]
Battles – Dross Glop album review
I remember back in the day when Limewire still existed, I downloaded anything with the label “remix” beside it. I thought remixes were the coolest things, and since I was so inept about music at the time, I loved every last one. Now that I’m not a mere toddler, I’m a little more picky. Released over a period of several months, the Dross Glop remix album by Battles featuring retuned tracks from Gloss Drop, is finally complete. Four separate vinyl releases [...]
DJ-Kicks Mixed by Photek review
It’s probably important for me to precede this review by mentioning that I’m not exactly an electronic music aficionado. It’s not that I don’t like the music as a whole – I loves me some Aphex Twin and I thought Submotion Orchestra’s Finest Hour was one of the best albums of last year – but I’m not exactly ingrained in the universe. Case in point – I was unaware of the DJ-Kicks volumes, a long-running series of electronic albums that [...]
Culprate – Flatline album review
Culprate, a one man-band electronic/experimental band signed to Dubsaw records, just released his maniacal album, Flatline. I actually have no idea who Culprate is, name-wise, he’s a mystery from Watford, England. The only real thing that is not a mystery to me is the man’s music. Void of vocals besides the very rare sprinkle of sample voices like on “Curious George,” which for brief moments seems like Culprate’s insane version of Madison Avenue’s “Don’t Call Me Baby” Spawned in 2008 [...]
