Long Reads – Page 4 – Electronic Sound

20 minute read

Saint Etienne: When The Saints Go Marching Out

byBob Fischer

After 35 years, Saint Etienne have made their final album. The upbeat new collection ‘International’ will be the last instalment in a recording career that has been both thrillingly eclectic and warmly indebted to their love of classic pop. Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs look back on three decades’ worth of highlights

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5 minute read

Radiophonic Workshop: Maida To Order

byMark Roland

To create a new Radiophonic Workshop sample library, esteemed former members reconvened at the BBC’s iconic Maida Vale studios for one last poignant rendezvous

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4 minute read

Rainy Miller: Grim Tales

byFat Roland

Steeped in “northern gothic” atmospheres, Rainy Miller’s genre-blurring new album is bleak yet gripping, reflecting the huge emotional impact of a chance encounter

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8 minute read

Xmal Deutschland: Present And Correct

bySian Pattenden

An Xmal Deutschland retrospective covering the German goth/post-punk band’s defining 4AD years prompts singer Anja Huwe to reflect on her teenage epiphanies

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9 minute read

The Moonlandingz: Lunar Tunes

byBob Fischer

Pterodactyls in the garden, an obsession with gabba videos and a catastrophic bike accident. Adrian Flanagan, Dean Honer and Lias Saoudi explain their long-awaited second album as The Moonlandingz

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5 minute read

Kirk Barley: Lux Life

byOli Warwick

On his latest album, Yorkshire’s Kirk Barley finds the perfect balance between avant-garde pointillism and meditative flow

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10 minute read

Richard Fearless: Facing Up

byStephen Dalton

On Death In Vegas’ first album in nine years, Richard Fearless channels grief, memory and raw emotion into visceral electronics – all caustic rave energy and fractured beauty.

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20 minute read

Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke: Tales of the Unexpected

byBen Murphy

What happens when electronic visionary Mark Pritchard teams up with Radiohead’s enigmatic frontman Thom Yorke? That will be ‘Tall Tales’, a gloriously hyperreal, “elegantly unhinged” album of sonic trickery and digital effects, with mind-zapping visuals by artist Jonathan Zawada

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9 minute read

Buried Treasure: Raider of The Lost Archive

byBob Fischer

Buried Treasure have been releasing lost soundtracks for more than a decade, as well as being home to the delaware road project...

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4 minute read

Hekla: Holy Wail

byBen Murphy

Icelandic theremin virtuoso Hekla crafts eerie ambient soundscapes that groan with feedback, blackened drones and a healthy dose of “sci-fi gloam”. Prepare to be subsumed…