Yes, we know there’s been a lot of Arca in these waters lately but what else is there to do when she keeps turning the tides in her direction? The queen of avant-pop has seemingly settled into a cycle of announcing a new album every Thursday for the past three
Image: Sinderlyn Records New York’s Tama Gucci has been slowly shifting the expectations of both R&B and electronic music with his incomparable style. Fusing the tropes of the two genres by way of heartfelt, tender songwriting and razor sharp avant electronic beats, the singer-songwriter and producer has arrived at a
Breakbeats / Electronic / Jungle / lgbtq / New Music / New York
Image: Hyperdub Mapping the rise and subsequent evolution of London DJ and producer AYA is to map the journey of an artist blossoming into their identity. What began as the subversive and performative DJ act LOFT on the UK’s queer underground has shapeshifted into this harbinger of the future; an
Image: 4AD To use the term ‘new age,’ to describe the sonic identity that Roberto Carlos Lange, AKA Helado Negro, has crafted over the course of his decade long career may not be without reason. Neither would it be so to suggest that his influence on the sound and direction
Chillwave / Electronic / funk / Indie-Electronic / New Music / Shoegaze
From Grimes going techno to Yaeji trading up her style, we roundup our favourite tracks of the week. In no particular order, here’s what we’ve had on repeat: Yaeji, OHHYUK – 29 / Year To Year The collaboration between k-house star Yaeji and frontman of Korean four piece Hyukoh is
Image: Artist The first thing to consider about Alice Longyu Gao is the fact that she is injecting some much needed diversity into the hyperpop sphere. Like Namasenda, Gao is challenging what for the most part has been a white dominated space. The origins of the genre being accredited to
Electronic / ep / experimental / hyperpop / New Music
Image: Embassy One If you Google Copenhagen trio WhoMadeWho, you may notice that they’re listed as ‘experimental pop.’ Now, in the current landscape where artists like Lotic are subverting pop tropes left right and centre and where hyperpop has become a legitimate genre, maybe this is not entirely accurate. However,
Image: Incienso We’re not going to lie, this was solely intended to be a review of New York producer Anthony Naples’s latest album, Chameleon. But as fate would have it, lo and behold the arrival of Club Pez, his latest EP. Both are released on his label Incienso. So now
Image: Deadmau5 Deadmau5 featuring Foster The People is not a sentence that anyone may have imagined being written, but stranger things have already happened at the start to this decade, so here we are. To be fair, Hyperlandia actually works entirely in favour of this collaboration. Unlike his previous single
Image: XL Recordings Blawan, AKA Jamie Roberts, is sort of renowned for his disparate, somewhat skeletal modular synth techno. Why they hide their bodies under my garage? Exemplifies this sort of approach, with crunched out beats and loops characterising his sound with a particular kind of analogous decay. In recent
