![]() “My music is about raising consciousness, about describing the reality of life and the lost paradise through the means of music," says Hendrik. (Most of his records, though, are pretty chill.) His latest, Garden Gaia, is a third chapter in his series exploring the idea of "humans as nature," which he previously investigated on 2013's Elements of Light and 2020’s Conference of Trees. German producer Hendrik Weber becomes one with nature on this rainforest rave of a recordĪs Pantha du Prince, German producer Hendrik Weber has made all kinds of electronic music over the years, from techno and house, to ambient and experimental noise. Pantha du Prince - Garden Gaia (Modern Recordings) What Vol 2 lacks in big hooks, it makes up for in vibe, sounding like an impromptu jam between Einsturzende Neubauten, Young Marble Giants and Liliput, which is a party I'd personally like to attend. His second album, which is out in the US via DFA (the label's first release since co-founder Jonathan Galkin's exit), feels like the kind of album that might have come out in 1980 on Rough Trade, Postcard or Swisswave label Off Course. While JJULIUS' music defies easy categorization, most of the sounds stem from post-punk influences: cheap keybaords and drum machines, intentionally naive elements alongside deft production, free jazz, dub, krautrock, industrial, etc. JJULIUS is the nom-de-rock of Swedish musician and producer Julius Pierstorff, who also runs Gothenburg indie label Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox with Elin Engström (together they make music as Monokultur). Kitchen sink DIY production elivens this Swedish producer's new album - which is also the first DFA release in three years JJULIUS - "VOL.2" (DFA / Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox) When it does, the albums explodes into orchestral, ethereal bliss that continues through valleys and peaks across the last three songs, wrapping up with another high, "Our Wretched Fate." Would the album have been better with more of those moments throughout? Perhaps, but it's all the more heavenly when you wait. She also dabbles in dance music here, which results in the album's most tantalizing moment, "Heaven Come Crashing," which features choral ahhs from Maria BC and a dizzying drum-n-bass breakbeat that hits halfway through. ![]() It's transportive, Music of the Spheres level liftoff, but Nayar also sneaks in some guitar heroics, too, playing like distant shooting stars that remind you she can shred. Her new album, Heaven Come, is an on-the-nose title for music like this that is so evocative and sweepingly cinematic, Iceland might make her an honorary citizen. Rachika Nayar is a guitarist, but one like Sarah Lipstate or Robin Guthrie who transform their instrument so much, through looping and other electronic manipulation, that you might not be able to tell what instrument created these celestial sounds. You get the feeling they were trying to cram in every idea they've ever wanted to use, all on one 40-minute album. Maybe too many ideas, but more often than not the results are thrilling - see "Blood Money," "Remains," the pretty, introspective "Upheaval," and the nervously funky "Boredom is a Drug." Boredom, by the way, is not a problem here.īrooklyn guitarist weaves cinematic tapestries with her instrument while dabbling in dance music, too The band are young, not that far out of high school, and that youthful abandon and idealism comes across in these 11 songs that crackle with electricity. The Lounge Society's trump card is swagger, and the album recalls everything from The Libertines to Modest Mouse, Joseph K, These New Puritans, and Iceage. Following two EPs, the Yorkshire band have delivered their debut, an ambitious, politically minded concept album about a society that crumbles apart over the course of the record. ![]() Like a lot of the groups associated with Dan Carey's Speedy Wunderground label (black midi, Black Country New Road), The Lounge Society have a lot going on in their sound, and aren't afraid to take wild swings. The Lounge Society - Tired of Liberty (Speedy Wunderground)Īmbitious, impressive, swaggering debut album from this young British band on Dan Carey's label ![]()
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