RECORD REVIEW: JENNY HVAL (NOR) – THE PRACTICE OF LOVE
On her seventh album The Practice of Love, Norwegian artist Jenny Hval again brings her considerable intellectual weight to proceedings and produces through an exploration of otherness a probing treatise on an emotional state that more often than not conjures up the most emotionally complex of conundrums. She does quizzically and critically both through seeking […]
BLACK MARBLE RETURNS BIGGER THAN LIFE
Minimal synth artist Chris Stewart aka Black Marble has announced the release date for his new album Bigger Than Life. It will emerge in October on his new label Sacred Bones and comes a full three years after the excellent It’s Immaterial, which placed #7 in our top albums list in 2016. The first single […]
LISTEN TO SPELLLING’S “HAUNTED WATER”; ALBUM OUT 2019
Photo: Catalina Xavlena Oakland electronic artist Chrystia Cabral aka SPELLLING has shared the first single ‘Haunted Water’ from her forthcoming album Mazy Fly, set for release early next year. Both poignant and defiant, it’s a downtempo yet intense track characterised by its foreboding production and Cabral’s soaring voice and idiosyncratic delivery. It remembers and wraps itself […]
JENNY HVAL EXPLORES SUBCONSCIOUS MEANING ON THE GREAT SLEEP
In case you missed the news, later next month seminal Oslo artist Jenny Hval will release a new EP titled The Great Sleep. It follows up two brilliant albums Blood Bitch and Apocalypse Girl, both of which featured highly in our end of year lists across 2016 and 2015. The four tracks here are based […]
MARCHING CHURCH TELL IT LIKE IT IS
Last week saw the release of the the new album, Telling It Like It Is’ from Denmark collective Marching Church. It’s a diverse work that skirts genres and decades but is more thematically cohesive than previous efforts. It’s characterised with helpings of dark tinged rock lashed with helpings of post-punk and pop with subtle slithers […]