Roger and Brian Eno: Mixing Colours review – an intimate conversation
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Låpsley: Through Water review – intensely poetic and powerful
Låpsley’s second album is stripped of collaborators, but its clean aesthetic highlights the scars of real experience
Jon Hopkins review – recital turns rave as fans embrace one last gig
His music has been criticised as being too cerebral to connect with on a visceral level, but try telling that to this crowd
Jax Jones review – gym-playlist workouts from potent hitmaker
The London chart fixture needs to add some danger and mayhem to his efficiently delivered series of set pieces
Grimes: Miss Anthropocene review – a deep, dark trip
“I’ll never be your dream girl,” sang Grimes on the last line of her aggressively poppy 2015 album Art Angels. On her fifth record, the Canadian producer embodies a living nightmare: Miss Anthropocene, goddess of climate change. So Heavy I … Continue reading
Vladislav Delay: Rakka review – techno from the end of the world
Inspired by the arctic tundra and the climate crisis, the Finnish producer’s angriest work to date is a mix of unstable, deconstructed beats and bludgeoning noise
Caribou: Suddenly review – perfectly imperfect pop
Dan Snaith’s project returns after five years away to confront grief and family, beautifully warping songs that are drenched in melody
Sightless Pit: Grave of a Dog review – witchy trio unleash hell
The underground supergroup bin their guitars in favour of obscure sound-making – and conjure a gloriously hellish mood
Grimes: Miss Anthropocene review – a toxicity report on modern celebrity
Notionally a concept album about the goddess of climate crisis, the Canadian’s fifth album is actually a compellingly chaotic statement about her own private life
Pi’erre Bourne review – rapper-producer with an eye on Kanye’s crown
Known for beats for 21 Savage, Young Thug and Chance the Rapper, the South Carolinian producer dances gracefully through genres in his live show
Moses Boyd: Dark Matter review – party-facing solo debut
Moses Boyd is a drummer in the same way Questlove from the Roots is a drummer, which is to say that the twice Mobo-winning 28-year-old Londoner is a producer-composer-collaborator-influencer not bound by the kit surrounding him. A progenitor of the … Continue reading
Katie Gately: Loom review – nightmarish orchestrated despair
Earthquakes, shovels and screaming peacocks are all sampled in a bombastic and occasionally ingenious album
DJ Diaki: Balani Fou review – landslide of rhythms brings Africa to the dancefloor
DJ Diaki’s debut is a speeding cascade of sound that skilfully re-creates the pounding atmosphere of Malian street party Balani Show
HMLTD: West of Eden review – riotous rock and grand guignol glam
The London band throw together glam, goth, electro, Kurt Weill … and have even added conventional pop to the mix
Beatrice Dillon: Workaround review – a global future-folk manifesto
These exuberant electronic experiments in mixing 150bpm dub-techno with live instrumentation fizz with the joy of artistic creation