OMG NEW BOARDS! And they haven’t lost their edge one bit. Seamlessly shifting between ambient, post-rock, and glitch electronica, “Reach For The Dead” is an amazing herald of...
For Sheffield's The Black Dog, techno is both a musical passion and an ideological position. Steeped in the socialism of their native South Yorkshire (their recent EP, The Return...
With an album as hyped as this, Daft Punk's first LP in eight years if you discount the Tron: Legacy score, it's probably worthwhile actually addressing the instantly tossed off...
Random Access Memories, Daft Punk’s first non-soundtrack album in eight years, might be the biggest release of 2013 (not counting what Kanye might have in store). It’s also a...
The French duo have not only made a career-defining album, but the smartest dance album since disco. - a perfectly imperfect vision of humanity as seen through the eyes of two...
Hey. The new Daft Punk album is finally available all over Europe (and in the US) which means that I can write about it. Genre: electronic. Read some very positive reviews and...
I missed Random Access Memories landing on iTunes by about 12 hours. I was on my way home from work when the stream went live, and when I walked in the door I immediately set to...
Exquisite digital schmaltz and visionary analog quackery evokes classics from 'The Wall' to 'The Wiz'
Ben Benjamin is a new solo endeavor brought to life by Ghostly veteran Ben Mullins, founding member of Midwest Product and Postprior. His first album, The Many Moods of Ben...
Chrissy Murderbot got his hands on the footwork sound of Chicago back in 2011. His take on the genre was a better fit with international bass music, using higher production values...
It's easy to forget that when Adult. started out, the Detroit outfit was lumped in with turn-of-the-millenium electroclash acts. Though husband-and-wife duo Adam Lee Miller and...
Hello. The stellar new album by ADULT. is a very recent addition to Spotify. Genre: synthpop. Enjoy! (US version here.) ADULT. – The Way Things Fall Filed under: 2013, Electronic...
The Way Things Fall is an album that looked like it might never happen, because since the release of Miller and his partner Nicola Kuperus' last record — 2007's Why Bother? — the...
Always been a fan of Andy Cato and love the concept of this album, which is basically tracks he sketched on the road before and during his years as half of Groove Armada...
The debut album from Groove Armada's Any Cato. A project that has been gestating for some time, written over 20 years while Andy has been on the road with Groove Armada. Compiling...
"Is this guy for real?" "What exactly is his problem?" "Why does he have to be naked?" - all valid questions upon one's first exposure to Har Mar Superstar. After his 2000 debut...
Eric Estornel's DJ-Kicks is branded as a Maceo Plex effort, but its darkness will surprise those who know only his most successful pseudonym. For those familiar with his work as...
As Miss Kittin, Caroline Hervé has always been a generous guest—think of "Silver Screen Shower Scene" with Felix Da Housecat and "Rippin Kittin" with Golden Boy, or more recent...
Neon Neon's debut album, 2008's Stainless Style, was a whimsical but hugely enjoyable concept piece based on the rags-to-riches-and-back-to-bankruptcy life story of automobile...
Concept albums, by and large, have a bad reputation: self-indulgent, bloated, and lost in their own sense of importance. Pink Floyd, for example, had a penchant for them and with...
Minneapolis' Huntley Miller has thus far carved out a niche in modern electronic music with a pair of EPs and a well received series of remixes for the likes of Dosh (Anticon) and...
From its unguarded emotion to its big, acoustic drums and touches of breakbeat-indebted syncopation, the new Locust (a.k.a. Mark Van Hoen) album sounds very '90s. Luckily, time...
Good morning. From a recent Spotify update: the dreamy new album by Locust (aka Mark Van Hoen). Genre: electronic. Enjoy! (One review here.) Locust – You’ll Be Safe Forever Filed...
Six years ago, Simian Mobile Disco's Jas Shaw spoke to XLR8R TV about the duo's live set-up. At one point, he gestured to a piece of equipment and said, "It never does the same...
Given that Martin Wheeler created and recorded iPhonica on a smart phone, using just Sennheiser HD 25 headphones and Blip Interactive's Nanostudio app, it could very well be...
It's been 10 years since The Postal Service's seminal Give Up was released into the world. To say it found a wider audience than its creators expected is an immense understatement...
The Swedish siblings' fourth record reveals an admirable pool of ideas, thrilling noises, rare, unpredictable melodies and a huge amount of imagination.
"No habits! There are other ways to do things," read a line from the press text sent out a few weeks before the release of The Knife's first solo album since 2006's Silent Shout...
After the cryptic teaser of the duo on the swing set, the press release manifesto, and now a 13-minute video to accompany its release, you might forget there was actual music...
In all honesty, XLR8R doesn't really need to weigh in on whether or not the new LP by Swedish duo The Knife is any good. It's been seven years since the spellbinding Silent Shout...
Sweden's weirdest sibling act achieves electro-pop transcendence through winning weirdness .
Hi. The new album by The Knife is now available in Europe. Genre: experimental electronic. Enjoy! (Version for GB, IE and PL here.) (US release date is tomorrow.) The Knife...
Over the last 13 years, Stefan Kozella, better known as DJ Koze, established himself as one of the most playful producers in electronic music. Through numerous singles and remixes...
It's been roughly seven years since DJ Koze last put out a solo record and four years since his notable Reincarnations remix collection was released. In the electronic-music world...
An inconsistent album, but one whose good bits are really, really good.
Sheffield's The Black Dog has a substantial legacy to manage. Slapped with the unfortunate IDM tag early on, the lineup-shifting trio has neither balked at nor played to...
A minimal ambient release that reminds me of all those dark nights I spent listening to Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works.
Berliner Ellen Allien clearly doesn't view boundaries in quite the same way as many of her techno peers. Using terms like "fearless" to describe musicians who cycle through...
Ellen Allien's new work LISm is already being referred to as a milestone in the label's history: rarely has an LP from the circle of BPC artists deviated so far from the club...
If anything anchors Ellen Allien's work, it's her attitude, rather than a sound. From the icy abstraction of Sool to the playful indie-dance of Dust, from the leftfield techno-pop...
Since the release of her first record in 1995, Ellen Allien has proven to be a highly versatile artist. Over the course of her career, the Berlin producer has consistently come to...
Having already released a track called "Patriarchy Over and Out", which matched its manifesto to a cracking beat arguably even more striking than the lyric, the only way Janine...
For someone who seemed to drop off the radar completely between, say, 1983 and 2010, John Foxx has been pleasingly prolific of late. Evidence is his third album in as many years...
It feels like Autechre have smoothed out a bit since the days of Draft 7.30 and Untilted. On their last two albums, they pulled back from the mathematics and rediscovered the...
Autechre's roots in b-boy culture are mentioned with some frequency, but the group's latest transmission gives us reason to reflect on the fact. Seeing Autechre's career through...
Dense, subtle, maddening: there should always room in one’s collection for records as smart as this.
Exai is Rob Brown and Sean Booth's 11th full length and follows 2010's Oversteps and 2011's 47 track collection EPs 1991-2002 .
On his debut LP, Glasgow producer Soosh mines the depths of hazy, textured beat music while keeping one eye focused on melody and pop-infused electronics. Across its 12 tracks...
Diamond Version is the collaborative project between two of the most groundbreaking, experimental and forward-thinking creators in modern music, Byetone and Alva Noto. As joint...
On top of his regular gig writing for FADER, Duncan Cooper also finds the time to produce entropic pop under the name Wildarms. His new EP, Clear Eyes, is a gleefully eclectic...
One of my most anticipated releases this year. Lusine returns with an album of incredibly infectious electronic pop.
Though they contained plenty of electronic bliss, many of Seattle producer Jeff McIlwain's past albums as Lusine had a certain restlessness—they always seemed determined to...
Hi there. This interesting new album by Lusine is a recent addition to the Spotify library. Genre: mostly electronic but also some pop on a few songs. Enjoy! (US version here...
Though Jeff McIlwain's output as Lusine has seen a dynamic evolution across his 14 years of electronic sound design, he seems to have reached a comfort zone. The stark ambient and...