If anyone knows what’s going on with the artist née Christine and the Queens, now FKA Redcar, it’s likely Chris himself. Last year’s sprawling (and at times, brilliant) Redcar les adorables étoiles (prologue) proved divisive at best, compounded only by a confusing rebrand that never quite landed with the French
With the 90s resurgence and Y2K nostalgia continuing to dominate the cultural landscape, the resurgence of significant electronic music acts whose sound defined dance through that decade is unsurprising. From Orbital to Leftfield, the past year has seen many of these iconic acts re-enter the chat with new bodies of
Acid House / acid techno / big beat / New Wave / Synthwave / Techno
Karin Dreijer opens Radical Romantics with an apology. “I’ve done all the tricks that I can,” confesses Dreijer, offering us their atonement. After all, being a fan of Fever Ray is a complex experience. First introduced to the world as a genderfucked shamanic entity wielding primordial witch house beats, it
Afrobeat / Alt-Pop / Alternative / baile / Synthpop / Techno / witch house
There was a time about a decade ago when the arrival of Lana Del Rey truly shook the landscape of pop, like a flower crowned earthquake, draped in an American flag and looking for oxy. This was a time when pop was on the brink of burnout. Exhausted from five
Somehow, brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll seem to find themselves constantly pulled back into orbit of each other. Over the course of their three decade long career as British electronic music duo Orbital, they have broken up twice. Their most recent comeback, following a three year hiatus, has been going
Breakbeats / breaks and bass / Dance / Drum'n'bass / grime / Synthwave / Techno / trance
For a hot minute, Two Shell were heralded as the future of UK bass music. The mysterious duo, who have remained entirely anonymous, gained fast attention with their single home and for their inherent memeability in the electronic music community (“Two Shell are just Bicep for heads” floods Twitter to
baile / Bass / experimental / glitch / hyperpop / industrial bass / Techno
On the striking cover of her new album, Raven, the face of Ethiopian-American singer Kelela emerges from the depths of a restless, mercurial sea. Both her and the waters surrounding her are the colour of onyx, raven black, making it unclear where one ends and the other begins. It’s an
Since 2018, Compton rapper and producer Channel Tres has been staging a cultural reclamation of Black pioneered music. Blending the futurist pulse of Detroit techno and the grooving soul of Chicago house with the swaggering gait of West Coast hip-hop, Channel Tres has been quietly redefining club and rap music,
Raising as many questions as he has hits, American producer Skrillex has become one of the most contentious figures in electronic music. Many feel that Skrillex should still be held accountable for the sins of his past. Afterall, unleashing the bastardised Frankenstein monster of dubstep and happy hardcore now known
Last year, Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill went viral after its inclusion on the hit Netflix show Stranger Things, with the public finally giving the pop pioneer her long overdue flowers. The industry largely eschewed Bush in her day, because she dared to play with her food; for her,
