Avant Garde
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Introducing… Resina
Cello on a mission
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Gazelle Twin returns with more creepy electronica
Satan rides of Hobby Horse on Wednedays
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Ryoji Ikeda comes to London for a new music and visual installation
Electronica binary art to submerge in
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Abi Wade – “Beautifully Astray” Review
Armed to the cello
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Music For Voyeurs – “Encounter” Review
Mysterious guitars and alien synths
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Kaleema – “Nomada” Review
Argentina's new musician is a genre mashup class act
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Kelly Moran – “Bloodroot” Review
The prepared piano played from pluto
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Dijf Sanders – “JAVA” Review
A new way to fuse music and culture has been born
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – “The Kid” Review
One of the most experimental yet heady albums of 2017
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Bjork – “Utopia” Review
Feeling over melody for the Icelandic queen of avant garde pop
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Fever Ray – “Plunge” Review
Fever Ray's sensory overload will challenge and seduce
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Fever Ray returns after eight year break
You're invited to an bondage tea party.
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Video Vault – Bjork
Spewing balls of love from the wounds of life
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Hauschka – “What If” Review
The line between genius and madness is straddled to perfection
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Ghost Marrow – “Bunraku Warrior” Review
When beauty gets twisted
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Introducing… Benedikt
My first big new discovery of 2016 has arrived
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Colleen – “Captain of None” Review
Possibly the most avant garde folk release of 2015
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Unalaska – “Unalaska” Review
A unique brand of rock for those whom enjoy artistic psy-folk
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Soley – “Don’t Ever Listen” Review
Minimalist offerings that leave you cold
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Hannah Fury Returns
The lady of cute horror returns
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Introducing… Kathryn Joseph
Scotland's pride is one of my favourite discoveries of 2015
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Son Lux – “Bones” Review
Ryan Lott channels angry and all his previous lyrics into an explosive if familiar album
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Camille – “Ilo ympia” Review
The voice of a crazed nation
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Video Vault – Juana Molina
Campfires, potions, bumcheeks and a deer
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Introducing… Dragonfly Lingo
Dragonfly Lingo has an amazing tonal quality to it where the sound feels like it’s been beamed down from an alien craft because everything sounds…
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Introducing – KonstantinAS
A bit of an experimental one for you all today. KonstantinAS takes guitars from around the globe and weaves them into avant garde instrumental pieces…
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I Am A Man With A St Tropez Tan – “Just A Ghost” Review
The quite bizarre soundscape artist that is Rick Senley released an album in 2011 under the pseudonym of “I Am A Man With A St Tropez…
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Music For Voyeurs – “The Long Sleep” Review
Occasionally a musical artist will come along from such a left field angle it catches you off guard and makes you appreciate music as an…
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Video Vault – Soap&Skin (New Track)
Wow. Soap&Skin continues to utterly haunt me. Fantastic.
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Introducing… Aimee Bobruk
With her debut album coming out at the end of the month, this is an eerie opener for Russian Aimee Bobruk and I love the…
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Planningtorock – “W” Review
Recommended to me because of my love of Fever Ray (and The Knife) Planningtorock is like a relative of that genre. Electro-distortion. Janine Rostron takes…
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Naynt – “Naynt” Review
Naynt is the artistic name of Simon Gross, a composer whose music is in a similar vein to game music but he also crosses various…
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Dead Can Dance – “Anastasis” Review
Dead Can Dance are back! After far too long away from our speakers they’ve reunited. I’ve followed and thoroughly enjoyed their solo projects but sometimes…
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Peter Bjargo – “The Architecture of Melancholy” Review
Peter Bjargo has been enjoying a nice solo career alongside from Arcana of late and his latest album of work “The Architecture of Melancholy” takes…
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Full Album Stream – Fiona Apple (plus Music Video)
Wow! Fiona Apple’s new album “The Idler Wheel” is now available to stream in full over at NPR. I’m am trying so hard to not…
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Live Vault – Bjork
Bjork performed on UK TV “Later with Jools Holland” which is about the only mainstream TV show that’s musically decent and sound. Cosmogony Thunderbolt Crystalline
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Video Vault – Bjork
Bjork’s new PV for “Moon” is almost as a beautiful as the song itself which starts out very abstract and develops into something rather special.…
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Live Vault – Soap&Skin
I’ve not seen this fantastic ensemble live version of Soap&Skin’s “Marche Fenebre”. It’s absolutely delicious!
