Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Cellar
Greg Fenton reviews Cellar – Blue Tenderness – Cellaroot It’s the sense of freedom unleashed via an almost intuitive, interactive propulsion of rhythm, reduced harmony, and the forward-thinking yet almost contradictory pulse of analogue, modular machines that make this all feel so engaging. That and the fact in no way can you predict what will…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Moving Away From The Pulsebeat
Greg Fenton reviews Moving Away From The Pulsebeat – Post-Punk Britain 1978-1981 – Cherry Red Records Shall we discuss Post-Punk again? Maybe not beyond sounding like it was dreamt up as one of those catch-all titles, though lacking the necessary breadth to fit the great divide between its wild diversity of styles. In reality, the…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with DJ Counselling
Greg Fenton reviews DJ Counselling – Alt-Mobeat As an artist channeling all that you are into music must prove to be a fearsome trial at times, however, the consequent rewards of such honest, heartfelt expression mean we get to rejoice in its repercussions as light shines brightly at the end of the tunnel. DJ Counselling’s…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with M4LA
Greg Fenton reviews M4LA – Hoult EP – Beyonders Music It sounds like people are singing again. And not over the tired, old regurgitated disco of the past but in new, contemporary ways pointing music in the correct direction. Happy days. Nick Grimes (Gr1mes) seasoned voice spills tastefully across the delicate piano and over the…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Transmission Towers
Greg Fenton reviews Transmission Towers – Sparse – É Soul Cultura Let’s begin with the word, excellence. Not one I find use for as often these days but one which describes this beautifully crafted creation fittingly. Music to get lost and found might also feel apt. Wrapped in the envelope of soulful certainty Sparse is…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Jeff Mills
Greg Fenton reviews Jeff Mills – The Trip – Enter The Black Hole – Axis Records Funny how sometimes it’s the smallest of things that catch your attention. In my case, it’s the quick-fire snippet from a pad being slowly introduced in short bursts on Contradiction (Silent Shadow Mix). It feels incredibly powerful like it…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Deelighter
Greg Fenton reviews Deelighter – No Escape From This EP – Volumo Direct Looking at the cover art suggests either a possible escape route or a never-ending trap or tangle as wires enclose you. No Escape From This elicits that kind of response as it’s a challenging dance through rigorous rhythms on one hand, while…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Alexander Bollinger
Greg Fenton reviews Alexander Bollinger – Au Revoir – Be Adult Weapons This is a captivating piece of music. Not only because it drips with a swell of tempting, sentimental emotion but also because it feels revealingly musical scoring windswept strings, a chiming piano that blasts out occasionally, and cool acoustic guitar accompanied by a…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Scanner
Greg Fenton reviews Scanner – The Phenol Tapes – Alltagsmusik The second album, The Phenol Tapes sets a quick pace for this next release on Scanner’s label, Alltagsmusik. Following on from January’s, Alchemeia the album could not, in many ways, be more different. It still possesses that same hotwired infatuation with the world of electronic…