In his ground-breaking work Ghosts of My Life (all quotes from this, searchable, online edition), the late British philosopher and music critic Mark Fisher tells us that: Rather than the old recoiling from the ‘new’ in fear and incomprehension, those whose expectations were formed in an earlier era are more…
Oh boy, it’s been ages since I recommended some good synthwave/darkwave on the blog! When I stumbled across Finally Some Action in the blog’s inbox, my expectations were high. I mean, that name is so good! When I clicked through to their latest release, Circuits of Time, everything screamed “yes”…
A quick scroll through this month’s picks will tell you that this is probably the most diverse edition of Editors’ Picks in a while. There’s no grand narrative at operation here; we didn’t go out of our way to include albums from as many genres as possible. It’s just a…
