Happy Halloween, music fans, and to mark the occasion – a uniquely haunting ambiance, a creative production and distinct, captivating vocal lead, as the ethereal and cinematic darkness of Elegy Rising presents the enchanting new single Nothing Left.
Trip Hop
There are listeners familiar with the electronic indie sounds of alternative acts ranging from The Streets through Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack and Jamie T, and we land somewhere creatively amongst them now.
Lush lo-fi soul and jazz meets crisp contemporary drum and bass – an immersive and sublime listen, with distinct and quiet yet boldly mixed and beautiful vocals – all makes up the ambient and ethereal new release from French artist and songwriter Ua.
Senescence is an echoing trip hop dream, in a way – a small wave of nostalgia from the haunting comfort of simpler eras. The sound is atmospheric and distinct, but the voice clean and soulful, almost like RnB re-imaged amidst an underwater storyboard that’s both cute and unsettling.
Presenting a sonically immersive new single from his upcoming album, this time channelling the likes of Portishead, Massive Attack and Sneaker Pimps – something of a deeply atmospheric, multi-layered and cinematic acoustic fusion of details…
MAGIC MONDAY introduce their brand new EP with the title-track CROSSROADS, and we follow a soulful and breathy vocal lead, through neo-jazz kissed expressions that feel both colourful and fireside-like in their intimacy and charm.
The song is modest and genuine, easy to listen to but deeply evocative, as it should be, and this gentle soundscape from Stefan Storm and Lovisa Altin together lets the artist’s voice quietly and calmly connect and break hearts.
On thoughts of everything getting a return, great music increasingly circles back to the building blocks of deeply evocative sub-genres – the charm and enchantment of trip hop, in example; the uplifting vibrancy of drum and bass, the creative freedom of both, and the intimate, engaging fluidity of honest voices.
Brand new music form Matthias Boretius promises an ambient and soulful, organic journey as ever – this time taking subtle influence from the likes of Underworld, only veering off creatively, with near-operatic vocals that enchant and engage the senses and thought process.
Skilfully uniting darkness and optimism, genre-fusing multi-instrumentalist and rapper Jordan Patros delivers a deeply immersive and consciously captivating new album.
To coincide with the launch of one of this year’s most creatively consuming electronic albums, we caught up with the distinct and skilful artistic corner of phase trois, to talk all about the sound and concept of The Magic Maze II. We dig into his journey as an electronic music producer, the importance of feeling … Continued
Genuinely one of the easiest albums to get into this summer, Triptimein is cinematic but non-intrusive – Enagee’s humility is massively refreshing, and the world-music fusion of traits found throughout these indie-electronic compositions is both evocative and soothing in its quiet consideration of the world and the role of the self.