Demob Happy

Never say never again 7/10 I was a bit wary of this latest album from the New York-based collective due to reports of cheesy female vocals being added into the mix. In fact, this album is a distinct and largely successful departure from the STREET DAD template, stripping away the post-rock inflections in favour of [...]

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Nu-school electro 7/10 Scott Herron’s Prefuse 73 is a combination of Warp-label glitch and instrumental hip hop that has him adored by IDM merchants and headz alike. It is not nearly as abrasive and uncompromising as some writers would lead you to believe, but rather a heady mash up of new-school electro and (largely instrumental) [...]

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Middling product 6/10 Midwest Product’s ‘Specifics’ is a funky and rhythmic album that pitches live instrumentation against studio manipulations. Largely pitched as New Order-influenced electro, it is a clean, propulsive production but one that heralds few surprises. Think of Two Lone Swordsmen, then think of Out Hud, and imagine an act somewhere in the middle. [...]

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Dntel work 7/10 I bought this expecting something similar to The Notwist, as it has been widely billed as a seminal ‘indietronica’ album in which Jimmy Tamborello enlisted a host of singers and musicians from the indie scene (including Chris Gunst from Beachwood Sparks, Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and Brian McMahan from [...]

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Tokyo dreaming 9/10 One of the best soundtracks in recent memory (the best since Morvern Callar – great music, shame about the movie), Lost in Translation is an evocative collection of tracks that recall the unique atmosphere of the film. My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields complements tracks by the likes of Squarepusher (in one of [...]

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