Clock DVA: Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick… Boom!

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

Let’s get this straight: David Bowie was the godhead of 1970s electronic music. It was through him that electronic music was understood by a mass audience. His unique ability to synthesise, in both senses of the word, opened up pop music and revealed new ways of creating it, ways which would rapidly mutate and produce beautiful (and gloriously ugly) offspring in quick succession.

Suzanne Ciani is now one of the world’s most respected electronic music composers. It’s been one hell of a battle to get there, though 

Brit-folk darling Laura Marling, and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay would appear, on the strength of this interview at least, to be odd musical bedfellows. and yet their album as Lump is a fiery spark of a record. We ask the questions, see those stormclouds brood…