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 […]
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. […]
Before erupting into their performance of Cocoa Sugar’s lead single ‘Lord’, Graham “G” Hastings of Young Fathers announced, mid-set, “Glasgow – you’re the best fucking crowd in the world!” Such a cliched message usually just comes off as cringeworthy but in the case of this Young Fathers’ show – that packed the entire O2 Academy […]
Worst album lists are often an oddity, given music fans tendency to not deliberately seek out bad music. Initially, it would seem like compiling such a list would be an issue but inevitably the worst music the scene has to offer crosses paths with listeners, unsuspecting or otherwise. For all the quality music 2018 gave […]