I must admit, I’ve been slow on the uptake of this record but after putting it on heavy rotation the last couple of weeks, it’s really started to embed itself in my consciousness. Balam Acab a.k.a Alec Koone, crafts deep, dreamy soundscapes that gently sway on their light static beats and lyric less floating vocal tracks, whilst simultaneously appearing to bury a ...

Four Tet has continued to go from strength to strength with his last LP - There Is Love In You - arguably his strongest work to date. That was a record seemingly more flavoured by the club scene rather than his more delicate earlier work, a process which is seemingly set to continue. More recently Hedben seems to be most enamoured by goings-on in the bass scene, exemp...

The world that James Ferraro’s ‘Far Side Virtual’ inhabits is one of a dystopian future. Synthetic, superficial, endlessly optimistic to the point of falsehood. A soundtrack to Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror themes perhaps. Vocal samples discussing how our lives could be better, Skype and Windows sound samples, lilting brite-piano pieces and the goo...

Away from the Wighnomy Bros, Robag Wruhme has been around for a while as a solo artist. However, while he released his first solo album back in 2004, his solo output since then has just consisted of the odd single. Nevertheless his sound is highly engaging for those who have the patience to trawl his material. With his idiosyncratic approach to electronic music Wruhme has bubb...

When Male Bonding emerged in 2010 with ‘Nothing Hurts’, SBBS’s first reaction was “wait, they let British bands on Subpop these days?!” A cross between 90s grunge and the current noise-pop fad, both imported from the USA, we quickly realised that Male Bonding’s origins would be no obstacle to success on one of our favourite la...

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