The kids are coming up from behind.
Former Youtube streamer, Benjamin Fernando Barajas Lasky, combines folktronica (a la Ultramarine) and emo-rap (a la Lil Peep) as Quadeca, especially on 2022’s I Didn’t Mean To Want You, a ghostly and depressive concept album constructed from dense cloudy atmospheres mixed seamlessly with trap cadences. Vanisher, Horizon Scraper, for the most part, reneges his cloud … Read more
Tahliah Debrett Barnett, monikered ‘FKA Twigs’ released her third studio album, Eusexua, her most straightforwardly danceable album yet, mostly overseen by Welsh producer, Koreless. No doubt her vulnerable whisper can still captivate but the production is often unflattering. The addition of ‘club’ music arguably detracts rather than contributes to her emotional style which still manifests … Read more
Welsh singer Cate Le Bon continued in the dreamy hypnagogic disco vein on Michelangelo’s Dying after 2022’s Pompeii – perhaps inspired by her namesake Simon le Bon of Duran Duran fame. The album was recorded in the Joshua Tree desert. The main limitation is that the cybernetic mutant pop has been done before and the … Read more