Album of the Week
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Album of the Week
Karl Smith On Algiers’ The Underside Of Power
In a record both timely and timeless, Franklin Fisher, Ryan Mahan, Lee Tesche and Matt Tong have tapped into something both immediate and primal. Their most politically-drenched record to-date, The Underside of Power, Karl Smith argues, is also proof of their quality as musicians
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Bob Cluness On Perc’s Bitter Music
The third album from Perc takes his brutalist techno sound and places it in the historicism of the machinic modernist utopias of the 20th Century. An era, argues Bob Cluness, that for all its chilling monstrosity, has now been usurped by a techno dystopia more terrifying
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Karl Smith On Ryuichi Sakamoto’s async
In Ryuichi Sakamoto's first solo album in eight years, and first since his recovery from throat cancer, Karl Smith finds a record concerned with the varied states of human life and a sprawling piece of music less fixated on the task of world building than the more daunting prospect of penetrating the complexities of our own universe
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Brian Coney On The Moonlandingz’ Interplanetary Class Classics
In The Moonlandingz first full-length offering as a non-fictional outfit, Brian Coney finds a record that refuses to wear only one mask – futurist without revivalism, acerbic but with swagger – and throws off with gusto any accusations of the term side-project
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Karl Smith On Mind Over Mirrors’ Undying Color
In the sixth release from Jaime Fennelly's Mind Over Mirrors project, expanding from a solo effort to a collaboration on five fronts, Karl Smith finds a work of folkloric mythology both saturated with history and necessary at our present moment
