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Robyn: Sexistential overview – pop doyenne returns with emotional grenades and a fresh philosophy

by musicsoundwizard@gmail.com   ·  6 days ago  

The self-proclaimed Fembot has consistently pushed of us’s buttons. Robyn will likely be easiest identified for bringing raw emotion to the dancefloor, nonetheless her pop bangers about desire and despair are on the total spiked with commentary on social programming: “Inch me in and flip some switches,” she once quipped, posing as a sexed-up cyborg ...

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James Blake: Attempting Events review – platitudes about politics and Kanye can’t detract from a cultured album

by musicsoundwizard@gmail.com   ·  2 weeks ago  

Of the total issues it is possible you'll perhaps interrogate from a James Blake album – swish minimalism, plaintive vocal distortion, appearances from hip-hop’s mammoth and correct – chin-stroking socio0political commentary potentially isn’t regarded as one of them. But because the title suggests, our most modern distress is strictly what the 37-one year-venerable goals to ...

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Diagonale des Yeux: Madeleine review | Safi Bugel’s experimental album of the month

by musicsoundwizard@gmail.com   ·  2 weeks ago  

The lyrics for Diagonale des Yeux’s debut album had been written within the model of a great corpse sport, with participants Laurène Exposito and Théo Delaunay taking it in turns to patch together ephemeral thoughts and issues in a combine of French, German, English and Spanish. The weird, multilingual experiences that emerged match the French ...

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Simo Cell and Abdullah Miniawy: Death Is the Web overview | Ammar Kalia’s global album of the month

by musicsoundwizard@gmail.com   ·  3 weeks ago  

Egyptian singer Abdullah Miniawy has spent the past decade lending his melismatic direct and Arabic classical maqam melodies to an spell binding vary of experimental music, and. Alongside French trumpeter Erik Truffaz he launched the 2023 jazz-inflected album Le Cri du Caire; in his ongoing collaboration with German trio Carl Gari, his vocals are paired ...