Collider – A debut that brings energy back to shoegaze
Collider — A debut album that brings energy back to shoegaze
Læs restenCroatian Amor – Examining the lethargic melancholia of the digital age
Photo: Jane Pain
Croatian Amor: “Isa” (Posh Isolation, 2019) – review by Ivna Franić
Returning with his first album since 2016’s gorgeous “Love Means Taking Action”, Croatian Amor once again delves into desolate moods and meditations on navigating the digital world. If the previous LP hadn’t made it clear enough that the project was moving away from the tried combo of warm bubbly synths and ...
KTL – Opslugt og opløst i en fri fortælling
KTL “The Pyre: Versions distilled to stereo” (Shelter Press, 2018) – anmeldelse af Alexander Julin Mortensen
“The Pyre: Versions distilled to stereo” blev oprindeligt skabt til en danseforestilling af den franske koreograf Gisèle Vienne fra 2012. Bag KTL finder vi to prominente skikkelser: Stephen O’Malley, der foruden sin solomusik i eget navn også er kendt fra bl.a. Sunn O))), samt Peter Rehberg, der driver ...
Scandinavian Star – Klarhed og elegance gennemsyrer tragisk narrativ
Scandinavian Star “Solas” (posh isolation, 2018) – Anmeldelse af Emil Grarup
Malthe Fischer har netop udgivet sit solodebutalbum på københavnske Posh Isolation. Albummet, ”Solas”, er Fischers første længere udspil under aliasset Scandinavian Star. Tidligere har han udgivet to eponyme EP’er på hhv. amerikanske Ascetic House og japanske Big Love, begge i 2015. Desuden er han aktiv i synthpop-gruppen Lust for Youth.
Både sangtitler som ”Candi”, ”Alang” og ”Regal V”, såvel som Fischers kunstnernavn, refererer til den samme hændelse: ...
RS Produções – Sparse productions filled with contagious energy
RS Produções “Bagdad Style” (Príncipe, 2018) – review by Alexander Julin Mortensen, photo by Marta Pina
Príncipe has been one of the most prominent labels challenging dominant (Western) norms of dance music by putting out, among other genres, kuduro and batida affiliated electronic music from what seems like a growing number of promising Portuguese producers. “Bagdad Style”, the first EP from the RS Produções ...
Tanja Vesterbye Jessen – A caustic songwriter-gem
Tanja Vesterbye Jessen “Feeling Love” (The Cat Box Corp., 2018) review by Javier Orozco.
“Feeling Love” is a guitar based album held together by tension. In spite of this being her first solo material, Tanja Vesterbye Jessen does not lack a trajectory in Copenhagen’s underground: Vinyl Dog Joy, Amstrong and currently Distortion Girls are some of the acts she has associated herself since the ...
Vanligt Folk – Den svenske post-zeitgeist
Vanligt Folk “Hambo” (Kontra-Musik + Kess Kill, 2018) – anmeldelse af Sandra S. Borch
I et virvar mellem manipuleret vokal, skæve synths og et sted mellem post-punk, dub og body music bevæger den svenske trio Vanligt Folk sig ud over grænserne med politisk-ladet lyrik og en hjemmebrygget lyd med solid swung på trommemaskinen.
Heather Leigh – Unsettling intimacy
Heather Leigh: Throne (Editions Mego, 2018) – review by Ivna Franic.
If you’re at least somewhat familiar with Heather Leigh’s music − be it by way of the stunning 2015 album “I Abused Animal”, her recent duo with Peter Brötzmann or especially her earlier, live-recorded material − you would be forgiven to be slightly taken by surprise by “Throne”’s opening lines. “You’re so interesting”, enchants ...
Mica Levi & Eliza McCarthy – Viljen til at finde ro
Af Morten Østergaard Rasmussen
Klaveret er et privilegeret soloinstrument. I sig selv rummer det så mange klangfarver, der strækker sig over så tilpas mange registre, at den mest oplagte måde at forsøge at vække alle disse muligheder til live på, er uden nogen form for akkompagnement. Alligevel er det ikke helt så nemt at komponere stykker til soloklaver, som det måske lyder. Det kræver ...