Tag: electronic

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Fever Ray – Kandy

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date March 7, 2023

The Glastonbury line-up poster was revealed last week, so obviously I am spending quite a lot of my time fanatically listening to everyone I’m not already familiar with. Fever Ray was vaguely on my radar before, but I just didn’t really connect with them. Their latest single is amazing though, and I also only just realised that they were one half of The Knife! Which considering I loved them, and also consider myself vaguely musically attuned is a fairly major oversight. Also: that video.

https://rabid.lnk.to/kandy

Tags electronic, fever ray, kandy, pop

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Bianca Scout – Empty space

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date February 22, 2023

Following collaborations with artist like Space Afrika, Ben Vince, and Elena Isolini, Bianca Scout’s new album The Heart of the Anchoress started life as a three day recording session at St Giles Church in Camberwell. Dark, dreamy and hypnotic, it sits somewhere between TPW favourites Grouper and Andy Stott, with opening track Empty space nicely setting the tone for the gloomy euphoria to come.

https://firstterracerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-heart-of-the-anchoress

Tags bianca scout, electronic, empty space, experimental, the heart of the anchoress

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µ-Ziq – 4am

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date February 21, 2023

Mike Paradinas just really loves making music. Not content with putting out two brilliant albums last year on his own Planet Mu label, he recently announced a new LP, 1977, that will land on the excellent Blamat in April. 4am is the lead single, and it’s a softly billowing delight.

https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/1977

Tags 1977, 4am, ambient, electronic, mike paradinas, u-ziq

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Kelela – Let It Go

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date February 10, 2023

Six(!) years after her last LP, Raven finally landed today. To quote Loraine James: “It’s Kelela day today, don’t talk to me about anything else”

https://www.kelela.co

Tags electronic, kelela, let it go, r&b, raven

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Loscil, Lawrence English – Yellow

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date February 3, 2023

This probably isn’t the kind of thing you want to listen to as you roll into the first weekend of February, but this collaboration between ambient experimental electronic titans Loscil and Lawrence English is just too good to ignore, sorry about that. This is taken from their new album Colours Of Air which is out today, with track titles tracks “named for the hue each piece suggests – from the gauzy levitational miasma of Yellow to the pulsing melancholic mirage of Violet to the seething twilit sandstorm of Magenta.” I don’t know about all that, but it’s inescapably excellent.

https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/colours-of-air

Tags ambient, colours of air, electronic, lawrence english, loscil, yellow

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DJ Python – I’m Tired

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date January 27, 2023

First single from a forthcoming split EP alongside Nick León on worldwide unlimited. I wondered if I would have liked this if it wasn’t by old Peezy. Guess I’ll never know. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ¯_(ツ)_/¯

https://worldwideunlimited.bandcamp.com/album/esplit-ep

Tags breaks, dj python, electronic, i'm tired, lofi

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Holodec – Just U

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date January 24, 2023

Here’s something else from last year I missed, taken from Holodec’s LP All Dogs Come From Wolves that landed in November. Just U is part garage, part post-dubstep, and all woman, baby! Boomkat described the album as “a definitive statement by a quietly gifted artist who operates inside the long shadow of late ‘90s US R&B”, and they’re way better at writing about music than me, so let’s go with that.

https://holodec.bandcamp.com/album/all-dogs-come-from-wolves

Tags all dogs come from wolves, dubstep, electronic, garage, holodec, just u, r&b

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Biig Piig – Only One

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date January 23, 2023

Recently longlisted for the BBC’s Sound of 2023 – which seems a bit late to the party, given she’s been putting out, often very well-received music for at least half a decade now – Biig Piig’s Bubblegum came out last week, and it’s great, although I’m not entirely sure why it’s a mixtape, rather than an EP. People cleverer than me will know, but like I said: it’s great, and Only One is a low-key vibe.

https://BiigPiig.lnk.to/BubblegumAY

Tags biig piig, bubblegum, electronic, only one, pop, r&b

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Lowly – Seasons

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date January 12, 2023

It’s another new Lowly single! To be honest, part of me is annoyed that I will have heard quite a large chunk of their new album before it comes out next month, but I also can’t help listening to everything. Seasons is great, obviously, with a big, rubbery synth providing an unusually sturdy electronic backbone for the rest of their characteristic ethereal epicness.

https://ffm.to/keepupthegoodwork

Tags electronic, indie pop, lowly, seasons

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Katatonic Silentio – Dans Le Cadre Du Relief

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date January 10, 2023

Here’s a brilliant – if deeply unsettling – slice of dubby electronica for you that genuinely seemed to make my tinnitus swerve to an entirely new, ferocious pitch. Taken from her recent LP Les Chemins De L’inconnu, out now on the relentlessly good Ilian Tape.

https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/itlp13-les-chemins-de-linconnu

Tags Dans Le Cadre Du Relief, dub, electronic, experimental, katatonic silentio, Les Chemins De L'inco