BATTLES: GLOSS DROP
GENRE | EXPERIMENTAL VERDICT | THE WAR’S NOT OVER LABEL | WARP RECORDS RELEASE | 6.6.11 BTTLS.COM To follow up 2007 freak show Mirrored, Battles has stripped down their sound. That isn’t to say Gloss...
View ArticleGRIZZLY BEAR: SHIELDS
GENRE: CHOIR POP FOR THE BROKEN HEARTED VERDICT: BRING TISSUES/DANCING SHOES LABEL: WARP RECORDS RELEASE: 9.18.12 Call me a sap, but it’s the sad tracks that sell this album for me. Sure, many will...
View ArticleREPORTING LIVE: DECIBEL FESTIVAL DAY I
Appleblim embarks on his set with a dark cinematic intro absent of a beat. The volume of the house system is turned up and the sounds are snapping at your third eye—this is my official introduction to...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: SQUAREPUSHER
“I kind of perversely find it fascinating to try to play with no feeling, with no human idiosyncrasies.” Concerning the (approximate) metric ton of over-caffeinated Beatport stars who have entered the...
View ArticleMOUNT KIMBIE: COLD SPRING FAULT LESS YOUTH
GENRE | HAZY ELECTRO VERDICT | COLLABORATIONS KEY LABEL | WARP RECORDS RELEASE | 5.28.13 The sophomore album from British electronic music duo Mount Kimbie, Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, displays as...
View ArticleDIG THIS: HUDSON MOHAWKE @ MIDDLE EAST DOWNSTAIRS
mo’ money, mohawkes Boy, are you lucky this guy is nothing like that strange Bruce Willis movie of nearly the same namesake. Rather, Hudson Mohawke, the electronic DJ, is getting some much-deserved...
View ArticleFLYING LOTUS: YOU’RE DEAD!
Lotus is more George Duke than J. Dilla here, invoking the spirit of psychedelic jazz for an ambitious exploration of death, and whatever may happen after.
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