Kevin Press

  • It is not unreasonable, now more than five months into the year, to begin compiling our favourite recordings of 2019. Albums that stand out in January or February tend not to face the stiffest competition. It’s far too early to place bets on this or that disc standing up against what’s to come. By the…

  • Verda Suno – Rise 0.00 Kangding Ray – Predawn Qualia 4.29 Low Lumens – Accepting What 12.19 SPIME.IM – Exaland I 15.34 Koeosaeme – Shadow 19.32 Nene H – How Do You Dare To 22.22 Khaki Blazer – Black Mesh 28.00 eRikM / Anthony Pateras – Orbitale 34.09 Andre Carvalho – The Thinker in the…

  • Dense & Pika – Delta System (Andres Campo Remix) 0.00 Marco Caetano  – Ordo Partium (Original Mix) 2.00 Lawrence Hart & Casually Here – Ochre (Model Man Remix) 4.55 PHON.O – Back to Back 8.48 Lawrence Hart & Casually Here – Innocent 11.30 Nørbak & Temudo – Jack and Verge 14.24 Ryan Elliott – Grafton…

  • Vesa-Matti Kivioja – Corundum 0.06 Dervisis – Yelde 4.59 Amish Boy – Funny Blups 11.04 Ryan James Ford – Dreamcast 14.29 Sun Rain – Willow Tree Testing 18.33 Robert Worby – Drawing the Nerves 22.14 Thomas William Hill – Curvature 26.43 The London Sound Survey – The Albert Basin 32.45 M. Grig – Mount Carmel…

  • Artists who produce instrumental music – or to put it more precisely, music that doesn’t feature vocals – are often asked how they decide on titles. At the risk of sounding elitist, that always struck me as one of the dumber questions in music journalism. Sure, not all music lends itself naturally to a pithy…

  • French artist Sylvain Milliot will release his first album under the name Véhicule on Friday. Le Temps du Chien is a detailed, carefully assembled combination of acoustic and electronic sounds. Neither purely ambient nor new classical, it offers the listenability of the former and the refinement of the latter. It sounds too advanced to be…