Death and Vanilla: A Flicker Of Hope

byWill Salmon
March 9, 2023

Reinvigorated after a difficult few years in the wilderness, Swedish trio Death and Vanilla are back with a new album, a more focused pop sensibility, and a renewed sense of optimism

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Will Salmon

The Fairlight Era: The Dawn Of Sampling

byMark Roland

It’s synonymous with the sleek sound of the 1980s, and while you might know its name, what actually is a Fairlight CMI?

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Organ Reframed: A Fine Set of Pipes

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Organs belong in cold churches booming out ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’, right? With her Organ Reframed festival at London’s Union Chapel, Claire M Singer has a better use for these grand old instruments

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Laptop: Not Fade Away

byFat Roland

Championed by the likes of John Peel and Steve Lamacq back in the late 1990s, Jesse Hartman makes an unexpected but very welcome return with his synthpop alter ego Laptop – all thanks to a Vince Clarke and Neil Arthur cover version

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Alan Vega: The Final Flourish

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While Alan Vega’s early solo albums lit the fuse, his later works reflect a lifetime of sonic risk-taking, ferocious invention and urban dread

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TVAM: Art Of The Matter

byFat Roland

Following 2018’s acclaimed ‘Psychic Data’, TVAM’s Joe Oxley has reappeared with a second long-player, ‘High Art Lite’, all cranked-up synth distortion, shoegazey euphoria and white-hot noise. Get ready for a vertiginous wall of sound

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Martin Rev: Proto Punk

byKris Needs

Rooted in fervent, free-form experimentation, Martin Rev’s formative 1970s cassette sonics not only fed into the arch-provocateur’s work with influential New York synth-punksters Suicide, but also his distinctive solo oeuvre. With a new release of archive recordings, he reflects on those gritty early years