Review: Irma Vep – No Handshake Blues
Welsh native and Manchester DIY veteran Irma Vep delivers a colourful spread of psychedelic-folk for his new album, No Handshake Blues. Opening with eleven minutes of indulgent and enduring warped, hazy psychedelia by way of ‘A Woman’s Work is Never Done’, Irma Vep’s latest full length offering bears a distinctly timeless quality. Unfurling in moments […]
PREMIERE | Levant – Monad
From the Romanian composer LeVant comes this conceptual project tackling rather complex narratives. Alongside studying his PHD in Philosophy of Digital Culture & New Media, George D. Stanciulescu also wrote a book entitled “Postmodernism and Digimodernism in music: philosophical perspectives”. The response he’d received from this book led to him creating his own interpretation of digimodernism in the form of UnFinetude. Released on The Sublunar […]
Review: Zooey – The Drifters
Matthieu Beck and Marie Merlet are the pair that make up the French duo Zooey, and together they have created an easy-listening, positive, and immersive record. The Drifters was created in their London home studio and encompasses Maries’ admiration of experimental pop and sixties soul, in which she has just announced her first solo album […]
Best Music Releases of 2016 – Staff Picks
Original email to the CONE team: Well what a year. We’ve gone through what has probably been one of the most iconic years of a generation. A TV host with the rationality of a goat is now running one of the most powerful countries in the world, Britain’s official ‘worst prime minister on record’ takes […]
Weighty lineup to play at Bristols In:Motion on NYD
To bring us into the new year, Bristol’s In:Motion series will be presenting a star studded lineup across two warehouses. The 2016 In:motion series, which started only a few weeks back has already drafted in the likes of Roni Size, Congo Natty and Oneman. Now the longstanding Bristolian institution are keen to set the gold standard, with some rather spectacular […]
Brian Eno creates new app to launch with album
Brian Eno has created the smartphone app to amplify the experiences of his new forthcoming album ‘Reflection’. Brian Eno has long been heralded for his inventive nature and the upcoming album which releases on Warp 1 January 2017 features a 54 minute ambient track, which he felt needed to be expanded upon. The application as he explains […]
Wes Anderson has directed H&M Christmas Advert
From the director who brought you The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited and The Grand Budapest Hotel, comes this advertising miracle before Christmas. Enlisting the expertise of a stalwart anderson cast, Adrien Brody plays the train conductor that has to deliver some bad news on Christmas eve. Gathering all the elements of a quintessentially Anderson […]
Review: Telephones – Vibe Telemetry
With previously released disco grooves on Sex Tags UFO and Full Pupp Label, Henning Severud, better known as ‘Telephones’, issues his debut album ‘Vibe Telemetry’ on Gerd Janson’s Running Back record label. According to the label, Telephones’ “Vibe Telemetry is inspired by the pure feeling of listening to house, disco and techno, prior to knowing […]
Goula explains the delicate conceptual framework behind his debut release
Following the debut release of Cognitive Shift Recordings’ Overview Effect, I asked Roger Goula a few questions that gave us a deeper insight into the influences of the musician and the production of the record. [dropcap size=small]A[/dropcap] London based composer and multi-instrumentalist, Roger Goula studied classical guitar in Barcelona and graduated in both music composition from […]
Review: Peluché – Utopia Village
Following a collection of pop singles including ‘The Guy with the Gammy Eye’ and ‘Ohio’, the London-based trio Peluché release their seven track debut EP ‘Utopia Village’. The EP was recorded in Utopia Village, Camden, with the songs that make up the release the last to be recorded in the studio – now due to become […]