Electronic
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It is difficult to overstate the influence of a small set of bands in the 1980s and 1990s spearheaded by Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine. Their ability to fuse old-fashioned studio-generated noise with sweet melodies is a strong link in the chain that connects The Velvet Underground to today’s avant-garde. Too often lumped in…
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A veteran of his home country’s most prominent music festivals, Italian new waver Furtherset has delivered a six-track mini-album long on aggressive beats and swirling, fuzzy synth lines. Tommaso Pandolfi works out of the middle ground between club music and avant-garde electronics. You can absolutely dance to this new material. Chances are though, that’ll have…
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Colin Andrew Sheffield wrote a lovely guest post for us in September, eulogizing his good friend Matt Shoemaker. “Matt’s sound art is some of the most singular, carefully arranged, densely layered and hauntingly beautiful work one is likely to find in this realm,” he wrote. “Most anyone who knows me has heard me talk at…
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With baselines worthy of a Jah Wobble mixtape, Audiokern’s new eight-track EP scores top marks for both production value and unconventionality. There are multiple nods here to more common electronic music styles, dark ambient among them. But there are too many surprises along the way – good ones, I’m pleased to report – for this…
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Marc Jacobs pulled the title of his third disc After the Flash Flood from a similarly titled photograph by Joel Sternfeld. It’s an American desert landscape shot, one in which a house and car appear moments from slipping through a sinkhole that has already swallowed another vehicle. “The perfect framing and angle of the picture,…
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As much as we love electronic music, oftentimes it works most effectively when paired with acoustic sounds. New York duo SPIRIT RADIO is the latest in a long line of acts who’ve confirmed this for us. Tamalyn Miller’s divine vocals and handmade horsehair fiddle serve as both a complement and contrast to Stephen Spera’s keyboards,…
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