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10 The title track of LFO‘s second album Advance (1996) kicks off the proceedings in style, with a slow-building but irresistible pulse over which panoramic, glistening arpeggios and rhythmically off-kilter bleeps contrast with dark, edgy drones. The perfect soundtrack to the quiet opening of a nature documentary, or a war movie. But this is just the calm before the storm. ‘Shut Down’ takes things up a pace with an energetic and thunderous romp, and ‘Loch Ness’ takes cues from both Baroque music, with its harpsichord-like opening synth stabs, and 80s synth-pop, with reverberating snare drums and soaring synth strings galore. What follows next is ....
July 7th, 2015 The advent of streaming music services has been a godsend for anyone whose appetite for music exceeds the contents of their wallet. No longer are those obscure 12” Throbbing Gristle LPs doomed to spend their life in the dehumidified basement of Paul Morley. Instead, the likes of Spotify and Tidal act as a sort of benevolent cultural democratiser, dredging entire back catalogues to the surface and granting instant muso status to anyone with a spare tenner a month. But whilst the likes of Stereogum chew over the classics again and again, there’s whole swathes of digital flotsam that go largely ignored. These are the barnacles caught in the net, records that made their peace with the sea-bed long ago but now squirm uncomfortably in the glare of our retina-display screens. ....