The Radiohead singer’s new solo album mines a trail of sparse, haunted electronica studded with some of his loveliest melodies and textures to date. Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke’s third solo album (his first since 2014’s Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes) arrives in the slipstream of his acclaimed Suspiria soundtrack and re-affirms his exalted status as a progressive artist who never … [Read more...] about Thom Yorke: ANIMA – Review
Richard King: The Lark Ascending – Book Review
In which the celebrated music author sets out to examine the reciprocal connections between the English pastoral and music, via a psycho-geographical cycle of essays on landscape and sounds. With his fascinating and heartfelt new book, The Lark Ascending, the venerated music writer Richard King has taken Vaughan-Williams’ enduring titular composition as the starting point … [Read more...] about Richard King: The Lark Ascending – Book Review
Bedouine: Bird Songs Of A Killjoy – Review
On her second album, the folk singer-songwriter Bedouine pulls the rug from under her listeners by adding subtle and enticing embellishments to her pristine chamber-folk sound. The Syria-born, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian, aka Bedouine, entered the wider musical consciousness in 2017 with her self-titled album on Matthew E White’s Spacebomb label, a … [Read more...] about Bedouine: Bird Songs Of A Killjoy – Review
Remembering Mort Garson and ‘Mother Earth’s Plantasia’
The New York label Sacred Bones reissues a psychedelic electronica masterpiece from 1976 on vinyl. The resurgence of vinyl as a format in the last few years has accentuated and fetishized the crate-digging impulse amongst seasoned record collectors, bootleggers, audiophiles and musical enthusiasts of all stripes, upping the ante for those who covet the uncovering of esoteric … [Read more...] about Remembering Mort Garson and ‘Mother Earth’s Plantasia’
Mark Ronson: Late Night Feelings – Review
Mark Ronson returns with another hook-laden, guest-heavy opus, this time chronicling the fall-out of heartbreak and divorce via a sleekly produced set of sad bangers. The forty-three-year-old producer, DJ and musician Mark Ronson returns to his proven formula of a cluster of buzzy guest vocalists for his fifth album, a break-up record (his marriage to Josephine de La Baume … [Read more...] about Mark Ronson: Late Night Feelings – Review
Stereolab: Shepherds Bush Empire – Live Review
O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London Wednesday 12 June 2019 In the 1990s, the Anglo-French shape-shifters Stereolab were an intriguing and exotic musical proposition - with a healthily obsessive cult fan base - whose judicious meshing of disparate sounds failed to resonate on a deeper level beyond the appreciation of the academically minded and music journos. Almost two decades … [Read more...] about Stereolab: Shepherds Bush Empire – Live Review