Underscores Made an Album for Malls and Airports
April Harper Grey has been explicit about what her third album is for. She wanted it suited to malls, airports, hotels and supermarkets, and has... Read More
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Carpenter Brut Closed an Eight-Year Trilogy With Leather Temple
A darksynth album that opens on a church organ is telling you something before the first drum hits. Ouverture (Deus Ex Machina) runs one minute... Read More
Nathan Fake Made Evaporator on an Ancient Cubase Rig in Single Takes
Cubase VST5 shipped when Nathan Fake was a teenager. It is a sequencer from the era before audio and MIDI editing converged into the single... Read More
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
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
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