albumThe Sun Comes Up TremendousDisclosure2.5★Island, 2026. I went for the kick first and there is almost nothing left on it. The transient has been shaved down so the bottom end still reads warm through a festival PA, and once you clock that, the whole record is the strings doing work…Aug 29
albumSWEATKISS OF LIFE3.5★S2 put this out at the start of August. The pattern is Afro-house, and the Latin percussion sitting on top of it is the only layer with any real grip, because underneath that it's one bass idea repeating for three minutes without ever chang…Aug 15
albumLevel 5King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard4.0★Six people crowded around one Eurorack rig and this is what fell out, which explains most of it. The breakbeat is straight 1992 hardcore-jungle worship with a vocoder sat on top, and yes, everyone reaching for the Prodigy comparison is righ…Aug 9
albumthe bridgeKelela4.0★Warp, 2026, Kelela co-producing with Oscar Scheller. What I keep going back to is the rhythm track: a shuffle that edges toward a proper garage pattern and then never lands on one, kick mixed so far under the vocals it barely registers as a…Aug 1
albumOne More TryGeorge Michael4.0★1988, and it's basically a drum machine, a slow bass pulse and that gospel organ carrying the whole thing. Michael leaves most of the track empty on purpose and the restraint is the point. Coming at it from the electronic-body end of things…Jul 16
songBlack Prada DressEllie Goulding2.5★Polydor pushed this out in June 2026 as the lead for I Know Too Much, and Jack Rochon (the TikTok discovery she bumped up to exec producer) builds it on a four-on-the-floor that's more club-adjacent than actual club. Programming's clean, th…Jul 3
albumPearl's Girl (r18_for2026)Underworld5.0★The long ambient intro had me thinking it was a comedown track, then those breaks drop in and it just shoves you. Karl Hyde doing that blue-light free-associating chant over the top is what burrows in, I had it looping for a week straight. …Jun 29
