katatron has written the following articles:
The Sunshine Underground suffers from muddled ideas and rampant over-ambition.»
There’s no doubt that SBTRKT is moving into gripping new territory.»
One for those searching out unconventional grooves, Beacons is certainly an impressive calling card for Werkha.»
Dancing is awesome. It’s sexy, it’s fun - we can stand to do more dancing!»
Breton make electronic music with indie overtones, not the other way around, and in so doing, still manage to stand out from the crowd.»
Fair is perfect listening for lucid dreaming or dope-fuelled naps.»
By transplanting his work into another language, and into songs written by somebody else, Dan Bejar takes the oblique lyrics and “I write poetry for myself” Kaputt-approach even further.»
It’s time to surf the coldwave.»
This is Eminem’s best record in a decade – and one of the most impressive, entertaining and addictive hip-hop albums of the year.»
Next time, scrap the cod-philosophy and concentrate on the tunes.»
Paul Haig has never been a conformist, so it’s unsurprising that he continues to stretch himself while his contemporaries dwell on former glories.»
With Dynamics, Holy Ghost! have struck a careful balance between revisiting their mid-Noughties origins and playing with new ideas within a similar arena.»
Not just for dinner parties and Eminem disses after all.»
To the casual ear, this could be any of Placebo's other albums. But with such a consistent sound, it becomes harder for individual songs to stand out.»
Too much laurel-resting and too little innovation. »
With two new stages dedicated to dance and urban music and a hip-hop superstar headlining is the heyday of NME-indie drawing to a close, just like Kerrang-rock before it? Kat Rolle investigates. Plus BBC footage of some of this year's highlights.»
Mixed outside under the Wirral’s threatening skies, Engravings has an undeniable visual quality to it, invoking a grim, elemental nature.»
The best tracks are excellent, and you can always uncheck the rest.»
Amongst the Guadí and the rollerbladers, the lost tourists and the omnipresent Catalonian flags, lurks an utterly incredible festival. Festivals are always about euphoria; but Sónar does it best.»
You’ll be too busy dancing and yelling to question the originality.»
For those who like their disco slightly darker, there’s a lot to enjoy to here.»
At a time when many electronic albums sound more like mixed sets than collections of songs, this expansive double album is all the more impressive, with its 33 abruptly separated songs holding the listener captive within Zomby’s edgy world for well over an hour.»
Undoubtedly this is serious music – you can dance, but Lescop also wants you to think.»
If Tribes concentrated on what they’re good at – catchy, no-frills rock – they’d fare much better.»
The Way Things Fall is nasty as electro can get whilst maintaining a remnant of a reassuring pop edge.»
For all its glitz and shine, Dungeonesse feels slightly disingenuous – a rather contrived leap onto the 'summer of disco' bandwagon.»
This is the sound of a band full of ideas and successfully realising all of them.»
It’s perfectly acceptable, unrevolutionary, and of course, entirely inauthentic. »
Though Parisian goliaths Daft Punk return this summer, it seems unlikely that this Wolverhampton duo will be lost in their shadows.»
Ultimately, it’s all just too lazy. »
