After a record achieves cult classic status long after its release, their creators often struggle to recapture this accidental magic that initially made them so compelling. No group better exemplifies this problem than American Football. Achieving cult status with their genre-defining self-titled midwestern emo album, highlighted by the high school breakup single ‘Never Meant,’ the […]
When Australian producer Flume brought the sounds of UK wonky to a wider audience, its watered-down appeal to the masses resulted in a sound of lower common denominator. While he took inspiration from one of underground electronic music’s least accessible scenes, the result on his prior albums Flume and Skin essentially resulted in the typical […]
Followers of San Francisco electronic duo Matmos will be well aware of their love of concept above all else. This was best exemplified by 2016’s Ultimate Care II, a wildly experimental album crafted entirely from the sounds of a washing machine. To the faithless, such a concept would immediately come off as a gimmick or […]
It’s fitting that in the aftermath of legendary UK rave figure Keith Flint’s passing, bigbeat contemporaries The Chemical Brothers released a track worthy of the scene’s glory days. The difference between the legendary Manchester duo compared with their counterparts has always been their consistency, as they have continuously dropped great releases since the 90s. Even […]
Mark Kozelek is many things: prolific, tactless, at times ignorant. What Kozelek is not is subtle. Kozelek’s career has had something of a renaissance since 2014’s seminal album Benji, released under his Sun Kil Moon moniker, and alongside this resurgence has come a renewed ‘tell not show’ approach to songwriting. In Kozelek’s recent output, both […]
There has been something notably unsettling about Lil Pump’s rise. Maybe it’s record label vultures watching with glee as seventeen-year-old Pump cuts into his Xanax birthday cake, his constant attempts to have sex with Miranda Cosgrove, and his eerily well-manufactured meme status culminating in teenage Garcia’s supposed Harvard commencement speech, which he alleges he dropped […]
Modern techno music is accused of being too serious almost constantly. Critics of the genre cite its masculine atmosphere and dark, brooding tone which renders it unenjoyable. However, when producers attempt to inject fun into the genre, purists often lash out and claim it a bastardisation of the genre that, for many, is a lifestyle. […]
Younger’s six-minute runtime entirely defies the expectations indie rock mainstays The Mountain Goats have crafted thus far. So too does the tracks more expansive and fleshed out sound, the antithesis of their 2017 album Goths. Given the nature of their upcoming album: In League With Dragons, apparently half rock, album half Dungeons & Dragons campaign, it […]