Magazine Sixty
Music reviews and artist interviews
Magazine Sixty brings you reviews and interviews with some of the worlds leading independent artists. Discover excitng new electronic music, revisit seminal classics and hear from the people behind the sounds.
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Greg Fenton reviews 002: Davis Galvin – Prism (Delphinium Elatum) – Music To Watch Seeds Grow By More often than not reviewing music is about sounds and your emotional response to them. Here, however, a question of plants and growth appears intertwined with the music itself expanding the concept – a word I haven’t had…
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Greg Fenton reviews Just Her & Nolan – Howler – Last Night on Earth Sounding bright like a new dawn Howler feels celebratory in that classic House sense as chords and voice elevate the spirit. Following an uncomplicated formula of repeating lifts and drops proves tailor-made for dancefloor response, also down to its crisp production…
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Greg Fenton reviews Black V Neck – Check My Brain – Dirtybird You can always rely upon Dirtybird to mix it up, frying your senses in the process, tangling wires and then unpicking them in no particular order. That sense of joyfully ripping up the rule book creates more exciting sounds and rhythms as a…
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Greg Fenton reviews V.ictor – Morpho- – Archipel Musique Canada Treading on eggshells while the tension of uncertainty gathers particles around the crackling spark of dangerous electricity. It sounds like an unearthly mystery but certain tracks found within V.ictor’s brand-new long player for Pheek’s excellent Archipel Musique Canada illustrate that feeling filled by wild abandon.…
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Greg Fenton reviews The 7:45s – The Way That I Love You – LRK Records Given that music is an art form, I’m beginning 2025 with a question: Is it more important for music to reflect the temperature of what is happening in the world surrounding us, channelling emotion alongside the radical spark of the…
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Greg Fenton reviews Phil Kieran – Artificial Analogue – PKR Phil Kieran always brings his own hot take to music. Whether that’s reimagining the 1980s-styled arpeggios driving this track forward in fifth gear (cars are important in all this) or at the edges of orchestral expanse on his work The Strand Cinema Live with The…
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Greg Fenton reviews Francesca Lombardo – It All Starts With A Star – Maison D’Etre Once upon a time, listening to new electronic music was filled with excitement, stepping onto creative pathways and experiencing sound in forward motion. The music spoke to you reinforcing belief in possibilities and for you, agitating culture, in ways that…
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Greg Fenton reviews Afterlife – Timelines 2 – Subatomic UK When whispers of heart-touching soul combine with the white heat of future imagination while opening up the world of conversation inherent within musical discourse, the magic of music counts. That unequivocal depth of feeling is blatantly apparent when you press play on Afterlife’s latest collection…
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Greg Fenton reviews Yard One x Tryst ft. Vovian & Red Pig Flower – San-lim Yok EP – Stolar Sounding like every second counts as if every movement is important in the sequence of events Output, Until The Sun Rises… by Yard One & Vovian is a thrilling composition. Eclipsing wide open fields of stereo…
