Having more or less perfected their sleek electro-noir with 2008’s savagely brilliant Velocifero, and distilled their career into the rapturously received Best Of 00â€"10, it’s natural that Ladytron would want to shake up their formula with this fifth album. Where previous albums have given equal weight to...

Where exactly has Tom Vek been for the past six years? Even his much vaunted comeback spearheaded by the well received album, "Leisure Seizure", had failed to attract a sizeable crowd to the Festival Republic Stage. Such early promise but this slot felt like a chance to start over and...

After being previously enchanted by Rubicks releases of 'Is This Love?' and 'Giddy Up' way back in 2010 which both ruffled our feathers with crunchy beats, distorted, emotionally charged, husky female vocals and infectious beats, here comes their sophomore album, "The Rise Of The Giddy" which incidentally includes those two...

The Deer Tracks’ trilogy, The Archer, is now on its second part. By some way of context, The Deer Tracks are a Swedish male-female duo who record music in a remote cabin; music that has, over time, sat comfortably in the ‘structureless ethereal ghost-noise’ box. On this collection of...

"New Beat"from the album Underneath the Pine2011iTunesChaz Bundick's previous record, January 2010's Causers of This, pegged him as a seminal chillwave artist alongside other psych-pop bedroom recorders like Neon Indian and Washed Out. But just over a year later, the 23-year-old South Carolinian...

It’s hard to believe the amount of work that Brian Eno puts out annually. The man’s a machine. In the past year, he’s produced several albums, composed songs for films and recorded his own records. Thankfully, his latest effort does not suffer from this dizzying pace. On Drum Between the...

If their debut, 1995’s Exit Planet Dust, set the Chemical Brothers stall out as purveyors of large beats and chunkin’ funk, then Dig Your Own Hole shot them right into the stratosphere. With its number one singles, Grammy award and multi-platinum status, Dig Your Own Hole took Tom Rowlands...

"Midnight City"from the album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming2011iTunesIt's been a long and fruitful journey for M83's Anthony Gonzalez. Started in the early '00s, the once-duo-but-now-solo project has been pumping out albums of top-tier electronic shoegaze for the better part of a decade. That...

Portugal. The Man’s sixth album is also its major label debutâ€"a fact that is notably striking, mostly because it’s unclear why record labels have taken so long to hop on this bandwagon. The Alaskan foursome (who now live in Portland, Ore.) retains much of its established stylistic tendencies here: the...

Electronica music is always bound to go down well at a festival; it's danceable, atmospheric and energetic; the perfect way to keep spirits high and leave the crowds buzzing. Few are better in this field than Canadian Daniel Victor Snaith, with many musical monikers and projects under his belt, but...