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Molecular Recordings delivers two uncompromising statements of hard-edged techno, with Ma Haiping ’s Velocity Unlocked and a six-track compilation ( Structure Series 3 ) putting the focus squarely on relentless kicks, pressure-cooked grooves, and music built to flatten a dancefloor. Molecular keeps…
Spencer Clark ’s Typhonian Highlife project transforms dreams, occult lore, extraterrestrial encounters, and experimental electronics into otherworldly soundscapes that blur the boundaries between music, mythology, and the hidden dimensions of imagination. Inside Spencer Clark’s dream world…
In October 2020, I published the first OUT TODAY column. Even then, I couldn’t keep up with all the new music, so in addition to my shorter SOUND BYTES write-ups, I started curating a collection of about a dozen albums and shared it with you about once a month. As everyone’s attention span got…
Metanoia: Music From Therapy marks an important step in Circuit3 ’s development. Fitzpatrick ’s electronic music retains its connection with a clearly defined tradition: analogue machines, sequences, emotional minimalism and synthetic soundscapes. Here, however, that tradition is used to confront…
Damnation 2026 is just around the corner, the final festival of the year within our UK remit, and what a huge one to send it off. As usual for our Ones to Watch pieces, we are all about picking up on the smaller bands on the line ups – we don’t have to tell you that you should be watching the likes…
The ambient world music from The Larsen Pipes turns emotion into sound. --- published on Ambientblog ---
With DUB da Beat , a self-released four-track EP available through Bandcamp, Walker returns to a sound that feels both deeply rooted in his history and wonderfully untouched by time. Massive basslines rumble beneath a haze of dubwise echoes, warped acid squelches, and fractured rhythms, creating a…
While continuing the legacy and wholly unique style introduced in Nekkuja and in 2022’s breakthrough Pripyat (both released on PAN ), Dja Dja , her first self-released album, sees a much stronger architecture and development: almost double the length of its predecessors, the album is configured as…
These two releases make a particularly effective pairing. no wonder • なるほど explores musical memory, accumulated fragments, and the creative freedom that comes from working within constraints. ilulissat turns outward, drawing on the physical world and translating its impact into an abstract but…
Vigilant offers here a meticulously crafted and sentient electronic release where processed field recordings interact with dreamily flowing dronescapes. A magical and magnetic feeling rises to the surface, leading the listener to a state of emotional stillness. Leading the listener to a state of…
“ Is there anybody here that knows something about the blood? “ Polyphia have abruptly abandoned the familiar, pushing further away from the softer instrumental fusions of their past work. Although it has been four years since their last release, the band have stuck closely to their strengths while…
The trio are constantly shifting between these states of playfulness and blissed-out chill but the net effect is always the same – smiling faces, shaking rumps, good vibes.
“ Step up now to play God. ” We’ve all got a story of a time that a band won us over in a live setting. My story for Frontierer involves their opening slot for The Dillinger Escape Plan . This was surely a pinch-me moment for the band, yet the diverse ‘oldhead’ audience that the headliner pulled…
Jordan Schmelzer ’s debut as Dead Edit , Signal Loss , plunges deep into the industrial undercurrents of IDM, where fractured rhythms, mechanical weight, and ambient collage converge in a dense assemblage of broken beats and digital decay. As if a lost signal were slowly finding its way back…
Kefaya and Elaha Soroor blend music and activism on their new album Our Freedoms Must Be Won. Tim Forster caught up with guitarist Giuliano Modarelli to discuss music, resistance and the struggle for freedom.
“We will march on through the everlasting winter.” Ever since the release of Lorna Shore ‘s And I Return to Nothingness , blackened and symphonic deathcore have entered a significant period of stagnation. Rather than taking creative risks that could set them apart, many bands within the genre have…
Bertucci and Beharie were able to strike a balance between two different concepts and approaches to music-making and create this dual set of musical experimentation that sounds like a unified whole.
Five tough tunes with no fat on them, As Shadows Fall, is a strong start and a fine restatement of intent.
Titled Les allées tourbillonnaires , this new release is a shadowy and immersive exploration of sound motifs and sonic details extracted from environmental noises and green-field recordings. Echoing, clashing noises are subtly covered by a vast array of microsounds Les allées tourbillonnaires by…
Pylon is a shocking display of growth from beabadoobee , and is not only her best album, but one of the year’s best. Release date: September 18, 2026 | Dirty Hit Records | Instagram | Website Honestly, I never was a huge fan of beabadoobee in the past. I’ve listened to almost everything she’s made…
Gavin Brown caught up with Stephen Ramsay from Montréal psych-ambient synth-drone supergroup Light Conductor to get an insight into their new release Sequence Three and the world of Light Conductor.
A fascinating, malevolent sonic manifestation that dwells in the darkest realms of black metal.
Penance is an album that deserves not just to be listened to but also to be studied and analysed.
Sorgens Kapittel stands as a powerful farewell to a beloved bandmate and a reminder that, even when one chapter ends, the music can continue to resonate long after the final note has faded.
Ava Rasti's search for home in a world where home can feel both deeply familiar and impossibly distant. --- published on Ambientblog ---
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