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Squarepusher's new album is a palate-cleansing summary of work to date displaying an admirable breadth of technique with some amazing peaks, says John Doran, but as a continuity LP it points more clearly to a crisis in criticism rather than IDM
In the run up to Squarepusher’s fifteenth studio release and performance at the 2020 CTM Festival in Berlin, Adam Quarshie caught up with him to discuss the tragic events that preceded the album, his early years in Chelmsford and his relationship to technology
With new album Syro just announced Dale Berning Sawa, Joe Banks, Emily Bick, Charlie Frame, Joe Clay, Tristan Bath, Ned Raggett, John Doran and Cian Traynor select their favourite album cuts, side-project tracks, collaborations, b-sides and rarities