Long Reads – Electronic Sound

5 minute read

Faithful Johannes: Yours Faithfully

byBob Fischer

Faithful Johannes? The Alan Bennett of hip hop. Sir John Betjemen with beats. And weighing on his mind at the moment are life-threatening lawns, river monsters called Tony and the “icky” thoughts that have inspired an album riddled with very English anxieties

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8 minute read

Rafael Anton Irisarri: Behind The Mask

byMat Smith

Rafael Anton Irisarri’s mournful and majestic new work – all complex ambient and drone heft – heaves with “simmering electric despondency”

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8 minute read

The Wolfgang Press: Back To The Future

byDavid Stubbs

With a sonic reinvigoration, former 4AD outfit The Wolfgang Press are making a surprise comeback with their first album in almost 30 years – a brooding and typically multidimensional return to form

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4 minute read

Nídia And Valentina Magaletti: Opposites Attract

byDerek Walmsley

Afro-Portuguese producer Nídia and experimental percussionist Valentina Magaletti have teamed up for ‘Estradas’, a melodic and pulsating tour de force of eclectic rhythms and essential beats

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19 minute read

White Noise: Lightning Strikes

byDavid Stubbs

Dark, psychedelic, sensual and enticingly strange… with their trailblazing 1969 debut album ‘An Electric Storm’, White Noise – Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson and David Vorhaus – created visionary electronic music that has continued to resonate ever since. Vorhaus, Hodgson and others revisit the story behind this extraordinary record

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9 minute read

Alan Sparhawk: Petal Power

bySharon O'Connell

Dedicated to his late wife and former Low cohort, Mimi Parker, and made using his children’s drum machine and synths, Alan Sparhawk’s astonishing solo debut is both profound and propulsive

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9 minute read

cumgirl8: Riot Grrrls

bySian Pattenden

Extraterrestrial interlopers, hyperreal post-punksters or “cyberfeminists”? Whichever way you see it, NYC’s cumgirl8 are here to save us

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9 minute read

Erland Cooper: Going Underground

byJeremy Allen

Back in 2021, Scottish composer Erland Cooper buried a tape on the island of Orkney, allowing the music on it to be manipulated and “co-composed” by the soil. Unearthing it a few months ago after three years of natural decay, the resulting sounds are remarkable – as is the story of this project

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10 minute read

Suzanne Ciani: Finding Suzanne Ciani

byAndy Votel

Since tracking down Suzanne Ciani, Finders Keepers have released more albums by the Buchla legend than in her entire career prior. Label boss Andy Votel gives us the rundown

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5 minute read

DJ Kampire: Happy Kampire

byIsaak Lewis-Smith

Touring the globe with curated sets of African club music spanning the 1970s to the present day, East African DJ Kampire is a tastemaker extraordinaire, as her debut compilation so richly attests