Canadian producer Airick Woodhead, known by stage name Doldrums, isn’t afraid of apparent contradiction. Producing an uncompromising debut record containing both big dance beats and unsettling noise, often concurrently, is testament to this. Even the plodding phonetics of his chosen moniker seems to sit awkwardly alongside the frenetic psychedelic soundscapes on Lesser Evil. ‘It’s about [...]

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Dubbed the ‘Architect of Sound’, Epigram speaks to Essex-bred producer Stuart Howard, better known as Lapalux. For those who don’t know you, could you describe your sound and the type of music you release? It’s a mixture of all sorts of experimental ideas, hip-hop, R&B, post-dubstep, all converged into one.   How did you first [...]

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Back in late 2009, Thom Yorke assembled an array of musicians with the sole purpose of playing his solo effort The Eraser to a live audience. Now operating under the name Atoms for Peace, the band, which features Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Joey Waronker of Beck, have worked together to produce [...]

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Supporting the ubiquitous Emeli Sandé, having their songs played on Made in Chelsea and Hollyoaks and now headlining a UK music festival for the first time at Blissfields in July: the times they are a-changing apace for Bastille. Those blokes in Oxford who write the dictionary explain ‘bastille’ as a fortress, essentially an English castle [...]

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Crippled by anxiety and loneliness, Keaton Henson’s debut album Dear… chronicled the break up of his first serious relationship. Although Henson’s debilitating stage fright meant that he avoided live shows, he built up a loyal, almost cultish following on the internet. Henson now seems to be emerging from this gloomy period, slowly putting on more [...]

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Untogether is hard work. From the ethereal wanderings of opening track ‘Follow’ to the final pained vocal of ‘The Other Day’, the album’s glacial atmosphere can make the whole thing feel impenetrable. Perhaps this is unsurprising, given that the brilliantly named duo (Ra and Ag) that make up Blue Hawaii created the record isolated from each other in [...]

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Montreal four piece Suuns are a proper band, a proper cool band. Their dissonant take on art-rock might offer a vision of warped futurism, but it’s hard to imagine them existing as anything other than a band if they had belonged to any of the past few decades. With 2010’s Zeroes QC they seemed to [...]

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Since their debut almost three years ago, it seems Stornoway have changed as little as the English countryside to which their sound is so heavily indebted, and images of gentle hills and pastoral landscapes run throughout Tales From Terra Firma. Opening track and probably the highlight here ‘You Take Me As I Am’ sets a [...]

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No World, the debut album from inc., is not your average RnB record. Made up of brothers Andrew and Daniel Aged, their debut album as Inc. on the brilliant 4AD label is a soul-drenched affair of 3am love songs and slow-burning jams, all hushed vocals and slow guitar riffs. Opening track ‘The Place’ sets the [...]

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MMOTHS is the project of 19-year-old Irish musician Jack Colleran, making blessed-out jams that sit alongside acts such as Vondelpark and XXYYXX. His debut EP last year captured some pretty special attention, and rightly so: his productions hold a melancholy warmth, wrapping hiccups of pop pleasure within a fragile electronic shell. 2012 also included shows [...]

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