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 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…
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Greg Fenton reviews Marino (Be) – Witzelsucht – Archipel Musique Canada Why do I like Witzelsucht? Because it transports you into the far reaches of somewhere you’re not entirely familiar with like a newfound location full of curious surprises. The sounds are loaded with expectation, charging the senses and imagination while discovering new pathways into…
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Greg Fenton reviews Birds of Mind – Body Language Vol. 25 – Get Physical Music Birds of Mind exist in that explosive space between the rhapsody of melody and the heavier undercurrent of fiery intensity, occupying not so much the middle ground but the reaches of either calling. Their music is tasteful and sensually crafted…
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Greg Fenton reviews Carlton Doom – Frankenstein – Hypercolour You could be forgiven for thinking that the fizzing techno stabs greeting you at the arrival point of Mercey From Eden explain all there is to know about Carlton Doom’s new album. You would of course be far from the truth. Try his collaboration with Jamie…
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Greg Fenton reviews Bibio – PHANTOM BRICKWORKS (LP II) – Warp Records So much music is being created now by so many people doing it that it’s sometimes hard to know where to begin. Never mind where you might end. The one qualifying difference between swimming in uncertainty and the positive resolution found in the…
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Greg Fenton reviews Quimbie – Sunday Fiction (Remixes) – Janx Records At first, I thought it was one thing, but then became another. The Lawrence remix of What to Put On a Record is simply outstanding. What begins as a trip into darker territory with bruising drums and bass (the low end is gorgeous, by…
