Jon Hopkins: Beats Surrender

bySharon O'Connell
December 9, 2021

Don’t be fooled, ‘Music For Psychedelic Therapy’ isn’t Jon Hopkins going all wallpaper ambient on us. It’s a weighty album he says needs to be listened to loud. We turn up the volume

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Kim Gordon

bySharon O'Connell

In which the ice-cool alt-rock queen serves up a new album packed with electronic tricks. ‘No Home Record’ also happens to be her solo long-playing debut.

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Alex H Duncan: Rub Of The Green

byIsaak Lewis-Smith

Using data gathered from plants and fungi, Alex H Duncan creates unique, “non-human” sounds and melodies. It’s intoxicating stuff

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4 minute read

Krautrock: 10 Definitive Albums

byES Staff

From Amon Düül II to Popol Vuh – essential krautrock gems to plug into

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10 minute read

Alexander Robotnick: I, Robotnick

byStephen Dalton

A mainstay of disco and electro since the early 1980s, Italian producer Alexander Robotnick has also dabbled in jazz, ambient and global sounds throughout his long career. His latest album, ‘Simple Music’, suggests there’s no sign of him letting up

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8 minute read

Mogwai: The Devil’s in the Detail

byDavid Pollock

Think you know what to expect from this lot? Think again, because over the last two decades a subtle sound evolution has been at work. We lift the lid on the secret electronic life of Mogwai

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Revolution in the Head: Beautify Junkyards

byBob Fischer

Beautify Junkyards bring a Portuguese perspective to Ghost Box’s retro-futurist aesthetic. Frontman João Branco Kyron discusses Portugal’s 1974 military uprising, his love of British acid folk, and disturbing spectral voice recordings