electronica
Germany’s ToiToiToi returns to Ghost Box with Vaganten, an LP of wayward electronics, Medieval plunderphonics and Chaucerian machine music
The regenerated Andy Bell explains the backstory to his recent solo work as well as adding insights into his parallel Ride and GLOK lives
Modern Aviation carries on a prodigious piecemeal run of releases with the densely packed yet compellingly cohesive debut album from Ben Winter
Retro-futurists Plone return after two decades with Puzzlewood, a magical mechanical mystery record that couldn’t be more at home on Ghost Box
Moustachioed modular-synth maestro Stephen James Buckley brings others into his immersive sound world with sublime communalist results
Tom Jenkinson returns with his first album as Squarepusher in five years and it’s a confident ride through his particularly wobbly drill n bass electronics
Winter is creeping in but the new releases still continue to appear, with Adrian making another bundled attempt to keep pace, prior to our yuletide pausing
Listening Center’s latest LP for Polytechnic Youth is a set of warmly welcoming analogue synth compositions that carry the hopes and fears of tomorrow
Carrying on his prolific polymathic run of 2019, Oliver Cherer teams up with ISAN’s Robin Saville, for an idiosyncratic conceptual ambient outing
Steve Nolan’s double cassette set of ambient dream music opens up portals, reroutes neural pathways and unlocks associative trains of thought
Heat Death, Dalham’s third LP and first for Castles In Space, is a thrillingly original electronic work that draws comparisons with early Boards of Canada
Leafcutter John’s latest LP is a walking tour of the Norfolk coast rendered as mossy electronica seasoned with field recordings in a kosmische stew
Mourning is disrupted throughout Atki2’s Requiem, where ambient piano pieces are transformed by electronic interference and worn crackle
Stewart Gardiner says goodbye to 2018 with a roundup of albums and EPs, ranging from the ambience of anxiety to haunted house music and pagan flutes
Panamint Manse talks to Stewart Gardiner about tumultuous empathy, hauntology in the desert and where jubilance meets desolation
The shadowy organisation known as The Heartwood Institute have constructed an imaginary reality that listeners can inhabit simply by playing Barsham Faire and The Third Eye
The second EP from mmph presents a classical sensibility cut up and pasted back together again via electronics