Song of the day

Burial - Loner

The new Burial Double EP - Kindred, is out. The second track Loner is more house than Burial has ever been — you can dance to it. It still keeps it’s ominous and haunting Burial feel. Minimal and simplistic, the bass line builds through the course of the track and keeps you hooked.

Give it a listen.

Loyal Divide - Otto

Loyal Divide is a Chicago based band, originally from Columbus, Ohio. They are masters of layering electronica, base, groove and punk to create a completely new youthful sound. Their full-length debut album, ‘Bodice Ripper’ deserves better treatment than a mere mention and I shall cover it shortly.

The song of the day is Otto, a single they’ve made in collaboration with Rachel Sarah Thomas of Chicago band Automata. Otto is fragile and is more ambient than they’ve ever been. Rachel’s vocals and guitars make the song melancholic and Loyal Divide’s heavy beats and loops come in and take the song somewhere completely different.

Enjoy your introduction to Loyal Divide.

Ren Toudu - Forest Hideout

Forest Hideout appears on the compilation done by Ovnimoon titled, Paz. Paz is a great ambient compilation and has some really great songs. Forest Hideout stands out as one of the best on the record. 

Paz grows very well and visits various minimal and ambient spaces and not even once appears to be a compilation of songs, but, a work which belongs together, kudos to Ovnimoon for putting this together.

Global Communication - 14:31

I have a great love for the electronica and ambient that came out in the 90s.Global communication is no different, I love the music they created and I love this album.

These guys are pioneers, the ones who dared, the ones who stepped out of the crowd and in doing that they paved way for a whole new genre of music and a whole new generation of musicians.

Their debut album 76:14 is a timeless masterpiece. It’s 76 minutes and 14 seconds of pure bliss. It starts slowly and builds and builds, but is never overwhelming. Although it was released in 1994, it never feels even slightly dated. We played the entire album twice over during the road trip I took this weekend and it made the drive a pleasure.

It is quite simply a sensational album. Have fun.

Nine Inch Nails - The great destroyer

The great destroyer is my favorite song on the Year Zero album. It starts off with a relatively simple glitchy drum roll and continues to evolve into a ballad that defies categorization.

Trent Reznor sings in his soothing voice, telling you all “they” do to you, over a massive war of background which goes on to plunder the realms of electronica, industrial and glitch. A seemingly unrelated and diverse sounds are layered into a musical collage that continues to evolve as you listen to it.