glitch
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ANIMA is Thom Yorke’s strongest solo or side endeavor since The Eraser.
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Holly Herndon’s new album is partially aided by A.I. and features some creative, futuristic art pop pieces, but there are plenty of half-baked experiments as well.
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1000 gecs contains the weirdest and wildest combinations of sounds I’ve heard this year.
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A Quiet Farwell is an inventive and consistently stimulating collage of underground hip hop and various strands of abstract music.
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Even after 25 years, Matmos is creating some of the most fun and inventive electronic music you’ll hear in your life.
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Among Tim Hecker’s least direct efforts, Konoyo at its best is sonically and conceptually rich thanks to contributions from gagaku ensemble Tokyo Gakuso. Unfortunately, the sound-play is lacking on a few of the pieces.
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Four Pieces for Mirai finds James Ferraro at the top of his MIDI composition game and leaves me on the edge of my seat for the albums it’s teasing towards.
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Age Of is abstract ear candy at its highest points, but is ultimately Oneohtrix Point Never’s least realized album in some time. The vocal tracks in the front half are particularly an Achilles’ heel.
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In January, James Blake released the mellow, atmospheric single “If the Car Beside You Moves Ahead.” Now he has followed it up with “Don’t Miss It,” a collaboration with Mount Kimbie’s Dominic Maker. The tender ballad has a similarly glitchy aesthetic to its predecessor and features self-reflective lyrics
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Kero Kero Bonito is back with a new single called “Only Acting,” which is being heralded as their first song to prominently feature rock instrumentation. The hook is power pop bliss, but there’s a bit of a dark undercurrent to the whole thing, which I at first suspected came
