kosmische musik
A second 2024 review package, featuring fresh and archival wares from Rupert Lally, Dean McPhee, Aircooled, Essential Logic and more
A mid-season round-up of releases from Great Panoptique Winter, Sula Bassana, Listening Center, Stellarays and more
A summer sampling of new and old from Tomorrow Syndicate, Hawksmoor, Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, Special Friend, Black Duck, Come and more
A broad spread of freshly-pressed sounds from The Declining Winter, Gilroy Mere, Death And Vanilla, Jilk, The Van Pelt and more
David Rowe of prog-rock outfit Plank! talks to Gareth Thompson about new album Future of the Sea on Todmorden label Golden Lion Sounds
Alongside another bout of retrospective but refreshing Prolapse activity, co-vocalist Mick Derrick lifts the lid on the band’s rich history
Works from David Boulter, The British Stereo Collective, Apta and more are sifted as the shutters come down on a release-heavy year
Further electronically-seasoned audio dishes from Mücha, GLOK, Luke Requena, Polypores, A Certain Ratio and more face the taste test
A benevolent avalanche of sonic goods from Eat Lights Become Lights, Mildred Maude, Good Shepherd, Melinda Bronstein and Stellarays
A bumper load of releases from Polytechnic Youth, Woodford Halse, Castles in Space and Werra Foxma get pulled from the review pile
Lisbon’s Beautify Junkyards have brought a dangerously dreamlike world to life on Cosmorama, their inviting new record for Ghost Box
Modern Aviation carries on a prodigious piecemeal run of releases with the densely packed yet compellingly cohesive debut album from Ben Winter
This second springtime column brings together a broad range of wares from Modern Studies, Textile Ranch, Bizarre Statue, Correlations and Rose City Band
Growing out from their kosmische-classicist beginnings, Australia’s Kl(aüs) deliver a braver and broader-reaching second album for Castles in Space
Martin Jensen opens 2020 with Coal Pit Zen, The Home Current’s first release for Doncaster’s promising Woodford Halse label
Dark Entries treat an undeserving world to Mechanical Fantasy Box, an archival collection of erotically charged experimental electronics by Patrick Cowley
Julie’s Haircut harness avant-rock experimentation and channel intoxicating psychedelic grooves fuelled by a kosmische engine on In the Silence Electric
Heron & Crane’s Firesides record is where dipped-in-acid Americana gets a strange makeover by retro-futurist British electronics and library music
The acid house soaked, heavily psychedelic rock of Bonnacons of Doom returns alongside shock of the new reworks by JD Twitch, Liars and Capac
Glasgow-based duo Free Love light up the darkness of the moment with Extreme Dance Anthems, a magickal mini-album of cosmic acid house on Optimo Music
Tomorrow Syndicate’s Citizen Input is a compact set of expansive, electronically-infused and psychedelically-charged, synthy and shoegazey kosmische cuts
Jane Weaver’s Loops in the Secret Society is an emotive tapestry of charged library music and into the night dancefloor anthems
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
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
Lyon’s Grand Veymont forge some sublime missing links between vintage psych, kosmische, chanson and more, on this absorbingly-layered long-player
Kikagaku Moyo have made a thrilling record of Japanese kosmische musik that might sound like early Kyuss being played by Stereolab and Tenniscoats
Stewart Gardiner discusses secret histories, retro-futurism and the sharing of cultural markers with the electronic phenomenon known as the Listening Center