Salem
When the trio of Midwest malcontents in SALEM released their first EPs over a decade ago, they, like many young people in America, were staring down a dead end. As the critic Larry Fitzmaurice pointed out last year in an… Read More
ELECTRO POP
Ela Minus
The underlying theme of Ela Minus’ music is the idea that resistance grows from everyday practices. There are whispers of this across her meticulously crafted debut full-length acts of rebellion, but it’s Minus’ intricate production that commands the most attention.… Read More
Call Super
For fans mapping the output British-born, Berlin-based producer Joe Seaton, his Call Super handle was slotted for his pummeling house and techno output, while the Ondo Fudd alias was reserved for his weirder excursions into electro or ambient. But the… Read More
Hellove Shares Debut Track “Lie” featuring Trove
A new pop-dance track has just surfaced from brand-new artist Hellove. The Estonian producer, real name Igor Volhonski, has teamed up with Australian singer-songwriter Trove. Together, they have crafted a doomed love-story in the song “Lie.” The new single fades… Read More
Good Sad Happy Bad
Some artists make being in a band sound like absolutely the worst thing in the world, but not Good Sad Happy Bad (the new name for a rejiggered Micachu and the Shapes), who make you want to dive, headfirst and… Read More
Autechre
Machines don’t care. Self-driving cars, data-harvesting algorithms, Boston Dynamics’ hideous quadrupeds—all these things unnerve us in part because we know that they can’t be trusted. They are indifferent to us by design. Autechre have long played to this unease, channeling… Read More
Annie
More than a few of us, these days, have been keeping an unusual, deliberate focus on our memories as they form: which ones we’d keep, which ones we’d prefer to destroy, whether any were worth keeping at all, and how… Read More
Loraine James
Loraine James’ music often feels like it’s on the verge of tipping into chaos. Competing rhythms run out of sync, throwing sparks as they scrape. Straight lines bend without warning, and smooth surfaces splinter. Rather than conform to a flawlessly… Read More
Dirty Audio enlists Flosstradamus and NXSTY for the ‘Inferno’ EP
Dirty Audio’s much awaited ‘Inferno EP’ just dropped via Barong Family and its 4 tracks long of innovative bass production. The EP consists of 2 collaborations and 2 solo records. The heavyweight bass producer got together with trap veteran Flosstradamus for… Read More
Rian Treanor
In 1962, an American ad man named Martin Speckter proposed a new punctuation mark. The sublimely named “interrobang” combined question and exclamation into a single expression of quizzical incredulity: “What are those‽‽‽” This space-age innovation sadly didn’t catch on, but… Read More