Thom Yorke continues his long romantic break with genre-less electronica. This album is boorish, predictable and miserable. Whilst there is a raw and earthy quality to it, it rarely veers away from his previous back catalog, offering very little excitement to the listener.
Category Archives: Electronic
Spacious Sweep – VGM Vol. 1
This album is so eighties you’d think it was recorded with an Amiga. It’s heavy synth-laden, gated drums and glittery soundscapes are completely lost in time, and at times it can feel cheesier than a four seasons pizza. There’s some interesting and effective melodies dotted around this retro love-fest, but it does sound rather dated.
Malena Pérez – Offering
Light, airy and seductive – just a few words to describe this album, complete with a vanishing warmth of notes and detailed percussion. Submerge yourself in Malena Pérez’s bright and brilliant soundscape, built up with layer upon layer of subtle textures and great distinction.
Daedalus – Drown Out
In this record you have something entirely out of the ordinary – an unusual electronic album. The melodies seem drunk with a certain stylistic wonkiness, but it works somehow. You also have a real mish-mash of samples that go beyond the basics and towards the stratosphere of highly accomplished producing.
Photophob – Circadian Rhythms
Here you have such a contrasting garden of electronic delights. These include earthy electronic roots alongside seeds of fuzzy percussion, and not forgetting a flowering of luscious ambient drone textures. It’s complex, subtle, threatening and brooding – a really fascinating album.
Aurea – Laptop Beeps!
In this post I bring you glorious game music. It features dynamic, intense, peeping good-fun Chiptune sounds, with an intricate and densely-layered embedment of melodies and harmonies. Although it’s a ‘lighting match’ scenario – the tracks burn very brightly but not for very long.
Nvoki – ep1
This record has a real zesty and creative vibrancy to it. It’s mixed with some unorthodox vocal samples, drizzled with economical synth stabs and seasoned with a rich spice of percussion tomfoolery. It’s a well-produced effort and has an almost Chiptune feel at times.
Improviso – Living Stereo
There’s an immense variety with the record, and you certain take an overdose of percussion for your trouble. Although there is a real lack of intensity which is compounded by very bland melodies. However, the frenetic nature of the beat agglomeration provides some respite from mediocrity.
Montana Beef-Bronx – MBBx
The rhythms in this music are so unstable and insane that they need lengthy counseling. This is a highly unusual electronic album that is wildly unpredictable. You hear a world of disparate tunes to classic electronic sounds – prepare to be confused.
Johan Brodd – Melodicum instrumentum
I would describe this artist’s latest offering as funky, old-skool squelchy synths meander along a river of eclectic percussion. There are whisperings of world music rhythms here and there, and there’s a certain melodic turnaround in the arrangement that really works.
