Nurture, the second studio album from the Atlanta-born, Chapel Hill-based artist, is a foray into some of his most emotionally driven work yet. Coming from his complextro era (a term he coined around …
TYF Music Crash Course: IDM
Since the popularization of the synthesizer around the mid ‘70s, electronic or “digital” dance music has been incredibly relevant. Whether it was made more subtle, through new wave, or obvious, throug…
Album Review: Dan Deacon – “Mystic Familiar”
Listening to Dan Deacon is a tour of what can happen when the computer is played as an instrument rather than a correcting tool for voice and techno. While the old school of music wax nostalgic for a …
Album Review: DJ Shadow – “Our Pathetic Age”
DJ Shadow is one of the indisputable masters of electronic music. His 1996 breakout Endtroducing….. is still a landmark in creative sampling, a dizzyingly dense collage of esoteric musical refer…
Album Review: Hot Chip – “A Bath Full of Ecstasy”
Hot Chip have always had a streak of violence in them, most memorably in the title track of The Warning which warned: “Hot Chip will break your legs/Snap off your head/Hot Chip will put you down…
Album Review: The Chemical Brothers – “No Geography”
In their awesome 90s run, The Chemical Brothers revitalised The Beatles’ Revolver for the techno age and hence turned their newfound genre, big beat, into every rock n’ roll fan’s favourite …
Album Review: The Prodigy – “No Tourists”
Big, stupid beats have been this group’s speciality ever since The Fat of the Land managed to erase the memory of the multilayered Music for the Jilted Generation for an entire new generation of fans.…