Charlie Bertsch / 13 Sep 2023
Music Against Panic
Slowdive’s Everything is Alive
The new Slowdive album Everything is Alive plays havoc with our sense of history.(...)
Kraftwerk
Charlie Bertsch / 12 Jul 2023
Music for Socialism
The Kosmischer Läufer Con
During the decade since Edinburgh’s Unknown Capability Recordings began releasing analogue electronic music under the name Kosmischer Läufer, the label has assiduously maintained that these tracks were secretly made for the East German Olympic team between 1972 and 1983.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 28 Jun 2023
Back to the Future
Decisive Pink’s Ticket to Fame
Ticket to Fame, the debut LP by avantpop duo Decisive Pink, isn’t likely to take them far. But the band's refusal to follow the playbook for success gives the record a staying power that hit-minded music rarely achieves.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 22 Feb 2023
After Music
Through Mazes Running, by Drew Daniel and John Wiese
Through Mazes Running, the new collaboration between Drew Daniel (Matmos, The Soft Pink Truth) and John Wiese (Sissy Spacek), toes the line between pleasure and pain with great dexterity.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 08 Jul 2020
Uneasy Listening
Deadbeat and Paul St. Hilaire’s 4 Quarters of Love and Modern Lash
“War Games”, the opening track of Deadbeat and Paul St. Hilaire’s 4 Quarters of Love and Modern Lash, begins with the spacious minimalism perfected by the Rhythm & Sound records St. Hilaire sang on as Tikiman in the 1990s. (...)
