EAR INFLUXION

Crystal Castles: 2 (Polydor) My friend Pete described this as “It sounds like they’re having an awesome party one room over and I’m not invited.” I get what he...

Tracey Thorn: Love And Its Opposite (Buzzing Fly) Tracey Thorn is one chanteuse that I consider essential to pop music. Everything But the Girl has had a curious trajectory over its long...

ANBB: Ret Marut Handshake (Raster-Noton) Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva/Noto) with Blixa Bargeld of Einstürzende Neubauten? Sign me up. It’s nothing so off what you might expect –...

Stars “The Five Ghosts” (Soft Revolution) It’s about time – Stars has come back to making a full-blown pop album. They’re so good at it that it was always a...

Flying Lotus “Cosmogramma” (Warp) It seems almost like a cliche for white dudes to reference “free jazz” when it comes to electronic music that loosely affiliated,...

The Chemical Brothers “Further” (Virgin) I was knocked down the first time I played this new one from the ever-changing Chemical Brothers. There are shades of where they were...

Autechre “Oversteps”/“Move Of Ten” (Warp) I first heard Autechre when they made their US debut with Incunabula, their debut album on Warp that got a strange...

Oval “Oh” (Thrill Jockey) Markus Popp… wha happen???? Ten years of silence from Oval and then…. “Oh!” So perfectly titled, and perfectly executed....

Thomas Fehlmann “Gute Luft” (Kompakt) Anyone familiar with Thomas Fehlmann’s solo work on Kompakt or his tenure with The Orb will likely not be surprised by this...

Glitterbug “Privilege” (c.sides)Epic and elegant, this double album from Glitterbug manages to both accommodate fans of melancholic tech house as well as those who’d...