BANKS, Goddess
Strained and a little sourOn Goddess, BANKS (the stage name of singer-songwriter Jillian Banks) guns for a specific spot in the alt-R&B pantheon — the mysterious, disarmingly candid songstress,...
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One of his most consistent solo effortsSince On Patrol first came out in 2010 on the experimental label Not Not Fun, Long Beach psych acolyte Cameron Stallones has released a steady stream of material...
View ArticleLuke Temple, Good Mood Fool
Revealing an affinity for clean, soft rock contours and mid-80s world-beatLuke Temple has released five albums’ worth of prickly experimentation since 2005′s folk-leaning Hold a Match for a Gasoline...
View ArticleRon Morelli, Spit
A hellish landscape traveled with a DJ's sense of ebb and flowBrooklyn-based label Long Island Electrical Systems (L.I.E.S.) has grown into a prominent voice for counter-cultural dance music in just a...
View ArticleHeatsick, Re-Engineering
Turning to Eurodisco, acid house and sambaIf New York and Berlin-based label PAN, home to the likes of Lee Gamble and SND, is a hub for musical cross-pollination, then Steven Warwick, the mind behind...
View ArticleActress, Ghettoville
A pared-down, pitch-shifted series of textural exercisesThanks to Darren Cunningham’s cryptic self-mythologizing, rumors swirled that the London producer’s latest LP as Actress, Ghettoville, might be...
View ArticleThug Entrancer, Death After Life
Repurposing elements of Chicago juke to create a chilly, distancing effectThough Oneohtrix Point Never’s Daniel Lopatin runs Software out of Brooklyn, the label’s catalog has recently focused on the...
View ArticleShocking Pinks, Guilt Mirrors
Shouldering the burdens of pain and mundanity in equal measureAt the beginning of the traumatized “My Best Friend,” Christchurch-based singer-songwriter Nick Harte murmurs matter-of-factly: “I’m...
View ArticleTRUST, Joyland
Abandoning surly lo-fi for perfectly sheen productionIn the two years since their brooding, coldwave-inspired debut album, Trst, Toronto synthpop outfit Trust lost a member (Maya Postepski, who left to...
View ArticleLockah, Yahoo or the Highway
Exploring and expanding upon the intersections of hip-hop and electronic musicIt’s been two and a half years since Rustie’s Glass Swords, but its influence is hard to overstate. Alongside fellow...
View ArticleSd Laika, That’s Harakiri
Intensifying grime's chopped-up, futuristic beatsOn the strength of a brief, grime-indebted EP called Unknown Vectors, Sd Laika (real name Peter Runge) signed to Brooklyn-based imprint Tri Angle, a...
View ArticleBANKS, Goddess
Strained and a little sourOn Goddess, BANKS (the stage name of singer-songwriter Jillian Banks) guns for a specific spot in the alt-R&B pantheon — the mysterious, disarmingly candid songstress,...
View ArticleWeyes Blood, The Innocents
Songwriting that owes as much to contemporary indie as the modal eeriness of Medieval musicNatalie Mering, who records as Weyes Blood, belongs to a lineage of dramatic female folk singers that...
View ArticleWildbirds & Peacedrums, Rhythm
Nine tidy tracks that are increasingly focused on techniqueAfter meeting at the Gothenburg’s Academy of Music and Drama, Mariam Wallentin and Andreas Werliin began making music that flouted the...
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