Collider — A debut album that brings energy back to shoegaze

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 ...

“K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016)”, edited by Darren Ambrose, Repeater Books, 2018 – Essay by Macon Holt. Mark Fisher was the most important music critic of his generation. And in some ways, he continues to be so despite taking his own life over two years ago. I think one of the main reasons for this was that, ...

By Javier Orozco I spent the last 14 months without a stream-on-demand music service, which unsurprisingly affected how and what I listened to throughout this period. It created a sensation of being behind, records I read about that I did not get to listen in their entirety or that had to be pulled from other sources (a YouTube ad-blocker turns out to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

By Simon Christensen Hosted by the people of Korpsånd and (the Copenhagen venue) Mayhem, a new two-day black metal festival is taking place for the first time in March 2019. The program is dedicated to the raw, contemporary black metal and will be headlined by Carved Cross from Australia and the two Montréalais bands Verglas and Akitsa, both bands released ...

Interview and reportage by Cameron Pagett. Additional photos by Kasia Zacharko. A liberal array of red and blue light columns course across a very crowded floor. The beginning hours of morning have fallen over the city and again I am perched at the lighting desk in Volume KBH. Another year, another chapter in diy-organiser Fast Forward’s history ...