Apparat Broke a Writing Block by Making One Song Every Day
There is a trombone on this record. Not a sampled brass patch, not a stab lifted from a library and pitched into a chord: Christian... Read More
Month: July 2026
Purity Ring Cut Lemonlime From an Album and Used It to Launch a Tour
The Korg M1 is the best-selling digital synthesiser ever built, a 1988 workstation whose factory piano and organ presets are stamped across three decades of... Read More
Nessa Barrett Reached for Portishead and Massive Attack on Tough Love
The first thing you hear on Bad Girls Never Die is not a synth. It is a string section and a strummed guitar, recorded with... Read More
Allie X Called Off a Tour Months Early to Protect Her Health
Allie X performing at Electric Brixton, London. Most tour cancellations arrive late. A run is already underway, a date is a fortnight out, and the... Read More
Melanie Martinez HADES Is Only Half the Album
Melanie Martinez performing at Mercy Lounge, 2015. Eighteen tracks, just over seventy minutes, and a closing song called “THE LAST TWO PEOPLE ON EARTH.” For... Read More
Robyn Waited Eight Years and Came Back With Twenty-Nine Minutes
Eight years passed between Robyn’s last album and this one. The new one is twenty-nine minutes and twenty-seven seconds long. Sexistential came out on 27... Read More
Carly Rae Jepsen Split Her New Album Into Twelve Days and Twelve Nights
Most pop albums pick a mood. Carly Rae Jepsen has made one album with two, and split them down the middle. Day and Night arrives... Read More
Jessie Ware Wrote Her First Key Change on Her Sixth Album
Jessie Ware has made six albums across fourteen years. The lead single from the newest one contains the first key change she has ever written.... Read More
Ladytron Released Six Singles From a Seventy-One-Minute Album
Ladytron put out six singles from their eighth album. The last of them arrived on the day the record did. Paradises came out on 20... Read More
Troye Sivan Says This Is the First Time He Didn’t Write About Men
Troye Sivan has built a career on writing about men. His new single is the first song he says he has written that is not... Read More
Miss Kittin Turned Deadpan Speech Into a Club Vocal 
Röyksopp Quit Traditional Albums and Made Five More 
Chvrches Say Their Fifth Album Is Ninety Per Cent Done 
Rebecca Black Named Her Third Album Age of the Exhibitionist 