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Beaumont’s forthcoming Blush Response EP is the climax of a codeine hallucination spent in the elegant bars and lurid back-alleys of a bustling port, the vanishing point is romance lush and melancholy like the ambient distillati…
Do you remember that episode of Knight Rider where KITT changes his name to Regard Daggermath, becomes a sociopath, and goes on a killing spree? No? The one where he suffocates David Hasselhoff with a slightly-too-tight seatbelt before decapitating sev…
Railcars’ new 7, Said Sister reconfigures memores off the stunning Cathedral with no Eyes in that brutally bewitching fashion which we have come to expect from the very talented Aria Jalali.
Saints are waiting, the A-side, is the folk tale of a fair …
On their most excellent 12″ on classy Swedish label Force Majeure, London’s Night Angles mine the vein of classico Eurodisco composers like Cerrone and Moroder to craft a slew of enigmatic dance-floor infiltration devices. “Aerodynamour” pulses …
If you’re in Brighton this Thursday, April 14th, treat yourself to an evening of anomalous audiovisual entertainment presented by The Outer Church, with performances by Moon Wiring Club, Pye Corner Audio, Ghost Box, and DJs Jim Jupp & Julian …
Coming soon on the beloved Mannequin records is //TENSE//’s slammin’ Escape EP, a sprawling Electronic Body Metaphor in which metaphorical versions of Front 242, Ministry, and Absolute Body Control traverse a metaphorical, post-apocalyptic landscap…
San Francisco’s Group Rhoda is pop in the same way that Kate Bush is pop: perfectly. Gorgeously enunciated vocals over deceptively simple but giddy arrangements: check. “Concrete Jungle” takes what sounds like the end of a run-out groove and turns i…
“Communicate,” a collaboration between London deep house producers Toby Tobias and Felix Dickinson, makes you wish you didn’t have 24 kilos of cocaine and 3 illegal immigrants stashed your car. As you bomb maniacally around treacherous clifftops, Th…
Design A Wave emerges from an ice-flow, blue and pristine. “Magicar,” a track from London musician Tom Hirst’s new tape, is a neon-lit Fortress of Solitude, a dance party for geological processes, glacial disco. Compiling recordings from a four-year …
International Tapes posted about Italian cold wave legends Chromagain back in January; keyboard player Silvio Ferrero even submitted a guest post on Turin contemporaries The Ghost Effect. As the re-release of their 1985 EP Any Colour We Liked LP dra…