Optic Sink
No wave Tennessee synthpunks
Late Night Final ‘A Wonderful Hope’ (PIAS)
Late Night Final is the solo alias of Public Service Broadcasting’s J Willgoose and ‘A Wonderful Hope’ wasn’t……
Phurpa ‘Lta Zor’ (Zoharum)
Russian-based Phurpa are a roving monastic choir who draw on ancient Tibetan bön spirituality and repetitive mantras, traditional……
Polypores
Deep, dark woods, LEGO and ‘The War Of The Worlds’. Modular synth maestro Stephen James Buckley, aka Polypores, reveals just a few of the influences that make him tick
No Arrival ‘Converse’ (Bricolage)
With four releases in 2020 (including the wonderfully titled ‘Male Slag Shag’), Glasgow’s No Arrival arrives in 2021……
The Orb
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: The Orb
Haroon Mirza And Jack Jelfs ‘The Wave Epoch’ (Outputs)
In the distant future, a long-abandoned Hadron Collider is unearthed. Mirza and Jelfs’ imagined discovery sets the concept……
Elif Yalvaç
Adventure-seeking field recordist
Zoë Blade ‘Raster Interrupt’ (Transistor Sounds)
After 2019’s glorious ‘Switched-On Marx’, Zoë Blade returns with 13 electropop instrumentals bouncy enough for a trip to……
Godfried-Willem Raes
Resident archivist Jack Dangers takes a look at the 1980 album by the Belgian robot-building sound artist Godfried-Willem Raes