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Richie Hawtin - From Mind To Yours Album Review
Is this what it sounds like when the ghosts of your pasts become those of your present? Richie Hawtin needs little introduction in electronic music circles, but having spent much of the last few years...
Review posted on 22nd February 2016
The Leaf Library - Daylight Versions Album Review
When it comes to music, being ambiguous is a quality which some artists value but many fans find a confusing luxury. The Leaf Library are a quartet from London who write songs about rural Suffolk...
Review posted on 15th February 2016
Trevor Ransom - Glimpses Album Review
So the cliché goes, men are visual creatures. Whilst the theory is most often used by people to explain why product A will be more attractive to a male than product B, a more hopeful...
Review posted on 1st February 2016
Ummagma - Frequency Album Review
A couple of years ago Ummagma's Shauna McLarnon and Alexx Kratov ran away. Their flight was not from condemnation, or prejudice, or the mundanity of a civilised existence, but from war in the Ukraine, the...
Review posted on 1st February 2016
Nonkeen - The Gamble Album Review
1,000 years ago in what was Northern Europe you would spend the winter covered in pelts, listening to the animals in their pen, sleeping on the ground of your thatched roof house with everyone else....
Review posted on 22nd January 2016
Soulsavers - Kubrick Album Review
Best known for their collaborations, Soulsavers - production duo Rich Machin and Ian Glover - creatively peaked almost a decade ago with 2007's It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land, a...
Review posted on 22nd January 2016
Borns - Dopamine Album Review
Garret Borns - he who is BØRNS - was a professional magician by the age of ten. This alone is a factoid to astonish; after all the trade relies on deceit, sleight-of-hand and good old...
Review posted on 8th January 2016
Various Artists - XL Chapter VI Album Review
Being cynical, you could make plenty of assumptions about 2015's "Best of" charts featuring returns for the likes of The Prodigy, Leftfield and The Chemical Brothers. All worthy choices they may be (Okay OKAY except...
Review posted on 23rd December 2015
T'Pau - Bridge Of Spies (Re-Issue) Album Review
Fewer times in twentieth century history have had a more prismatic effect on the beholder than the last few years of the 1980's: now subtlely rewritten by the winners (Media corporations, the cult of celebrity,...
Review posted on 23rd December 2015
Andy Peterson's Top 10 Albums Of 2015
10. King Midas Sound ft. Fennesz- Edition #1 Kevin Martin (AKA The Bug), poet Roger Robinson and singer Kiki Hitomi joined forces with Viennese avant garde composer Christian Fennesz to chart almost certainly the most...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 22nd December 2015
Soldiers of Fortune - Early Risers Album Review
When is a band not a band? Since when they're Soldiers of Fortune of course. Loosely assembled from members of American leftfield alumni outfits such as Oneida, Endless Boogie and Interpol, the Brooklyn sextet formed...
Review posted on 14th December 2015
The Chills - Silver Bullets Album Review
Speaking to the audience at The Brudenell Social club in Leeds in the middle of last year, Chills front man Martin Phillips had more reasons to look both forward and back than most. In the...
Review posted on 16th November 2015
Gary Numan - Replicas, Telekon And The Pleasure Principle Reissues Album Review
Shot on the front of Replicas, Gary Numan look much like the embodiment of Bron Helstrom, the former male prostitute of Samuel R. Delaney's pan-cultural science fiction novel Triton. Hair peroxide blond and clad entirely...
Review posted on 2nd November 2015
Various Artists - Revolution - The Shoegaze Revival Album Review
For those of you who aren't fully aware, the Shoegaze of this compilation's title refers to a splinter group of late 80's British indie that, initially inspired by the likes of Spacemen 3 and My...
Review posted on 2nd November 2015
Simbiosi - Elements Album Review
Everything's relative, right? For instance, if we were to tell you that Italian production duo Simbiosi's debut album was a little challenging, we'd need to qualify what we meant by that. And so here goes....
Review posted on 13th October 2015
Jono McCleery - Pagodes Album Review
The last time we heard of Londoner Jono McCleery at Contact Towers, he was taking Maribou State's recent album 'Portraits' to a piquant level of high grain via his turn on 'Say More', the sort...
Review posted on 13th October 2015
Levantis - Romantic Psychology 1 Album Review
We all know how much producers in the electronica world love a good pseudonym, so why spoil the fun? (In this case you can do that yourself with about 3 minutes of internet searching). The...
Review posted on 13th October 2015
Menace Beach - Super Transporterreum EP Review
The thing about bubblegum is, it's ace. Does bubblegum take itself too seriously? No. Can you mess it around into all kinds of different shapes, then when you get bored immediately change it again? Of...
Review posted on 2nd October 2015
Neon Indian - Vega Intl. Night School Album Review
Hipsters may curdle at the insinuation, but one of the most attractive qualities about the briefly prescient Chillwave movement was the thin line it trod between pastiching the superficiality of the 80s musically and on...
Review posted on 1st October 2015
Yppah - Tiny Pause Album Review
Yppah (real name Joe Corrales Jr. - put an I before the PP's in his stage name and you've got the pronunciation sorted) makes records that are frequently out of time. Not in terms of...
Review posted on 30th September 2015
King Midas Sound ft. Fennesz - Edition 1 Album Review
So much of music is in diverse ways, so instructive. It's made to be like that: the artist wants you to think a certain way when you listen to the songs, to understand either the...
Review posted on 14th September 2015
Dirty Vegas - Photograph Album Review
For artists who are effectively one hit wonders, there are few career choices when they reach the inevitable crossroads that follows. Take, for example, the truncated career of Gregg Alexander, the man who gave the...
Review posted on 3rd September 2015
Seven Davis Jr - Universes Album Review
Often forgotten, woe betide the music fan who makes the error of underestimating the influence of the cerebral, acid jazzateers of the twentieth century. Whilst the likes of Miles Davis, Sun Ra and Herbie Hancock...
Review posted on 1st September 2015
Silicon - Personal Computer Album Review
Sifting through a pile of new releases at Contact Towers is mostly fun, but occasionally can become a bit of a drag. By the time the fifth boy/girl combo of the afternoon are on the...
Review posted on 21st August 2015
Maribou State - Portraits Album Review
Maribou State's Chris Davids and Liam Ivory both hail from the Hertfordshire village of Potten End (that's right next to Frithsden, for those of you who need a point of reference) but didn't form a...
Review posted on 7th August 2015
Babymetal - Babymetal Album Review
Talking about ethnomusicology at Contact Towers one afternoon as we do, we remembered the famous words of Meyer when he spoke about the common, cross cultural threads in different styles of composition: "...different musical languages...
Review posted on 23rd July 2015
Meg Baird - Don't Weigh Down the Light Album Review
Meg Baird has certainly paid her dues, having been lead singer of Philadelphian octet Espers, an alumni of both Sharon Van Etten and the achingly hip Kurt Vile and releasing three solo albums, of which...
Review posted on 23rd July 2015
Leftfield - Alternative Light Source Album Review
Few artists in the electronic cannon will release a record with the gravitas of 'Leftism', Leftfield's 1995 debut. Arriving in the confused but angry wake of Castlemorton and the man's crackdown on repetitive beats, Neil...
Review posted on 23rd July 2015
The Jacques - Artful Dodger EP Review
Look, we remember 2006 like it was yesterday: frantically checking MySpace every day so you could be the first to have discovered yet another new thing, having the 1965 label promo CD on endless repeat...
Review posted on 13th July 2015
Gengahr - A Dream Outside Album Review
One of 2014's slowest burning and yet most rewarding albums blindsided many of us: London trio Happyness filled their debut albumn'Weird Little Birthday' with references to the slacker chops of Dinosaur Jr. and post-grunge, but...
Review posted on 10th July 2015
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