Music, Electronic, Issue 630

What goes around - Orbital

Orbital were pioneers in the world of dance music, with brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll epitomising up the sound of the illegal rave scene with their marrying of ambient and techno, but perhaps more significantly they managed to turn this music – until…

Everything's Gone Green - Coloursfest'09

These straitened times seem to be treacherous ones for festivals, but the last thing we need to get us in the mood for summer fun is a story about another call-off. How about a bit of feelgood news instead? ‘We’re already up 700 ticket sales on where we…

Le Weekend

A dubstep artist headlining at a left field music festival may have come about by accident, but the appearance of Jazzstepper and the Moody Boyz as the closing act of this year’s Le Weekend festival is as much of a coup as it is an eye-opener. Throw in…

Tortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship

Tortoise have always followed their own path, moving slowly, steadily and deliberately – much like their reptillian namesake. Their six albums in little under 20 years suggest a group at ease in their own skin, building records out of fragments of jazz…

Wavves: Wavvves

Nothing beats a bit of noisy weird-pop, and the world’s premier purveyor of it currently is 22 year-old San Diegan Nathan Williams aka Wavves. This second effort from the enigmatic chap takes the listener on a brilliantly unsettling journey through…

Little Boots: Hands

Much touted at the turn of the year, Little Boots has rather had her electro-pop fembot pixie thunder stolen by Lady Gaga, and this debut album doesn’t do anything to turn that around. Suitably retro of feel, with shadows of Yazoo, New Order and the…

Patrick Wolf

It’s hard to pin down Patrick Wolf, a musical magpie happy to lift Romanian folk refrains or electro basslines for a truly eclectic sound. Amazingly he manages to make this mish mash gel together, returning with new album The Bachelor and his trademark…

Antony and the Johnsons

An unlikely Mercury Music Prize winner back in 2005, Antony Hegarty and his Johnsons play singularly arresting music that draws on classical and cabaret, making for a strange amalgam of otherworldly experimental sounds and chamber music. Playhouse…