Bit Cloudy
Eclectic warm-front synthy missives
Leafcutter John: Making Waves
For his latest outing, Leafcutter John walked the Norfolk coast and recorded the sounds he heard along the way, mixing them with modular synth melodies for his latest album. Released on James Holden’s revered Border Community label, it’s his most direct and delightful work yet
Lost Souls Of Saturn
Surreal Stateside techno side-project
Roosevelt
Mixing the worlds of electroncia, Indie and disco, the second long-player from Cologne’s Roosevelt has found its way onto our turntable with some regularity. That being the case, it would be rude not to have a chat with him about it, right?
Miss Red
In which Livewire dancehall MC Miss Red hooks up with Ninja Tune dub prof The Bug to serve up one heck of a debut album. Talk about blowing the bloody doors off. They’re calling it future dancehall AND who are we to argue?
Gabe Gurnsey: Floor to the fore
One half of Factory Floor, Gabe Gurnsey strikes out on his own, the fruit of which is a debut solo outing that has a tale to tell…
Reed & Caroline ‘Hello Science’ (Very)
On their first album, the excellent ‘Buchla & Singing’, folk songwriter Caroline Schutz and synth sorcerer Reed Hays set compositions about such offbeat subjects as the beauty of washing machines or the lifecycle of earthworms to infectious electronic melodies and pristine beats.
Matths
South coast hypno synth menace
Jon Hopkins: One-Track Mind
The inspiration behind Jon Hopkins’ new album ‘Singularity’ is quite surprising… we talk psychedelic trips in the desert, transcendental meditation on planes, bird watching and wild swimming, oh yes we do
Snapped Ankles: Sticks and Stones
They dress as trees and play wooden log synths, and yet London’s subversive Snapped Ankles are living proof that you should never judge a book by its cover…