12-minutes of typically transportive delirium, ‘Chemz’ has a distinct reflective depth to it, but also effects the listener on a somatic level, as dance music is supposed to.
Author: Miles Ellingham
Eliza Legzdina: “I’ve sung in the Vatican… Now I want Hollywood…”
The Latvian-via-East London artist talks to The Buzz about her music, growing up in Latvia, body positivity, and the occult.
In Review: Molchat Doma – Monument
The Belarusian synth-pop purveyors’ new album reflects the estrangement felt by a country at war with itself; a cold-wave, industrial daydream, a lost place between perestroika and the Information Age, steeped in the shadows of its past.
In Review: James Blake – Before
The most up-tempo, fun release we’ve seen from Blake in a while, Before gleefully melds the experimentalist through-line of his oeuvre with the corporeal immediacy of dance music. On this four-track EP, he has returned to his roots – all the way back to his days as an adolescent dubstep DJ.
LIVE: deathcrash @ St.Pancras Old Church, London
On a damp night at the edge of lockdown, St. Pancras Old Church was a fitting venue for deathcrash’s hypnogogic wall of drone.
LIVE: Between the Lines X Erased Tapes
Anne Müller, Hatis Noit and Daniel Thorpe came together for a special performance as part of the eclectic billing of the EFG London Jazz Festival.
In Review: IDLES – Ultra Mono
Despite its pre-packaged rallying cries and at times falling short on political inspiration, the third LP from IDLES is still just as loud and angry as the times demand.
In Review: Yellow Days – ‘The Curse’ (feat. Mac DeMarco)
Is it possible to write something ironically and for it still to feel emotionally affecting? George van den Broek aka Yellow Days remains a musical wunderkind, yet ‘The Curse’ is emblematic of his new record’s wider shortcomings.
In Review: beabadoobee – ‘Worth It’
Unfortuately, ‘Worth it’ feels like backwards momentum and an aesthetic wrong turn for a seriously talented songwriter.
Veteran Music Writer Simon Reynolds, 10 Years on from Retromania
Giglist’s Miles Ellingham caught up with the British musicologist to discuss the development of arguments made throughout his esteemed career.