May 2024 – Page 2 – Electronic Sound

2 minute read

Anne Clark ‘The Sitting Room’ (Red Flame, 1982)

byClaire Francis

Fittingly for an album called ‘The Sitting Room’, I first came across Anne Clark’s debut long-player from 1982 while sitting in the living room of a friend-of-a-friend’s flat in Berlin last summer

LLong Reads

4 minute read

Fran & Flora: Take a Bow

byJeremy Allen

Inspired by Yiddish songs and klezmer, experimental/contemporary folk duo Fran & Flora fuse virtuoso strings, drones and loops to hugely beguiling effect

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Barry Adamson: Talking Pictures

byJonathan Wright

Barry Adamson is busier than ever. Ahead of a blistering new solo record and a string of UK live dates, the celebrated bassist reflects on setting the post-punk agenda with Magazine and his defining time with the Bad Seeds. “Bands are fucking nuts,” he says

PPulse

2 minute read

Seagoth

byIsaak Lewis-Smith

Immaculate, dreamy 90s pop nostalgia

PPulse

2 minute read

UTO

byJeremy Allen

Wonderfully weird French avant-pop

PPulse

2 minute read

Robyn Errico

byBob Fischer

North-east vocalist joins Dubstar vet

PPulse

2 minute read

Gross Motor

byRyan Walker

Intergalactic jungle gym adventures

UUnder The Influence

5 minute read

Jonny Trunk

byBob Fischer

Genial big cheese of the brilliantly esoteric Trunk Records, Jonny Trunk’s influences include squeaky plimsolls and pretending to be a falling leaf

TTime Machine

4 minute read

Richard Norris, The Grid

byJonathan Wright

In his new memoir, ‘Strange Things Are Happening’, Richard Norris remembers when The Grid headed to Asia and Australasia for a culture shock-inducing tour supported by Autechre

BBanging On

2 minute read

Jailed Lead Singers

byFat Roland

More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) is Record Collecting