The Field – In Our Dreams
It’s been 8 long years since The Field last released solo music, and it is wonderful to have him back. The master of long-form, melodic, looping electronic music seems to exist in a soft-focus parallel universe where time stretches and contorts in unnatural, but always soothing, ways. His new album Now You Exist for Studio…
1-800 GIRLS – grow
I think this blog definitely leans a bit moody and self-serious at times. 1-800 GIRLS’s debut album LOVE is neither of those things. It is good though, at least, 50% of it is. I really don’t like the first half… but the second half is great! Riddle me that.
One Track Mind: Grady Steele
The Formant Soundsystem founder on a track that challenged everything he thought about music and its creation The premise of One Track Mind is pretty simple: I ask artists to pick one track that means a lot to them – either something they’ve discovered recently, something that’s been with them for years, or one that…
Loraine James, Miho Hatori – Flatline
Created during a period of internal struggle and shifting self-perception, Loraine James’ new album Detached From The Rest Of You explores a more direct and vocal-led approach. The experience of producing 2025’s Clandestine EP with singer Anysia Kym opened up a more pop-focused framework, helping her shape her ideas into tighter song structures without losing…
Teatre – Returning
It’s a sunny Friday, and after possibly the most intensely stressful ticket buying experience of my life yesterday (for which I hold more contempt for Ticketmaster than is healthy), I needed something soothing to guide me into the weekend. Described as “A poetic, dream-like story born from a period of creative stillness”, Lithuanian ambientist Teatre’s…
Nalan – Everything was Easy in 2009
Berlin-based artist Nalan returns with 2009, her first album since 2022’s I’m Good. Out last month on Mansions and Millions, 2009 was written and recorded between Berlin and Istanbul and leans heavily into the reflective power of nostalgia, reshaping the late-2000s into something both sentimental and slightly distorted though a compelling indie-pop lens. https://nalan.bandcamp.com/album/2009
The Predatory Wasp 