WPGM Recommends: Lowly – Heba (Album Review)
If the radical painter, Jackson Pollock, made music he might approach it like this album. Pollock was known for a technique of throwing paint onto canvases that created ultra-abstract imagery but as...
View ArticleWPGM Recommends: Goldfrapp – Silver Eye (Album Review)
“Watching nature on my screensaver”. A five-word thought-provoking sentence from “Everything Is Never Enough” that reflects modern society’s current connection with the cosmos. Still fascinated by its...
View ArticleWPGM Recommends: Ankathie Koi – I Hate The Way You Chew (Album Review)
“Just because you think I’m tacky, doesn’t mean you have good taste” is a bold line from finger-clicking electronica track “Loose“. From a large castle town in Germany called Burghausen that borders...
View ArticleBest New Music: Sevdaliza – ISON (Album Review)
“Without translation would I be limited in aim?” Gathering from a shape-shifting life experience, a polyglot 28-year-old born in Iran and brought up in The Netherlands communicates to an international...
View ArticleWPGM Recommends: Eivør – Slør (Album Review)
One of the most honourable acts in the life of a musician is if they put their beloved country on the music landscape. Björk did this with Iceland. With the assistance of Dev Hynes, exotic synth-pop...
View ArticleWPGM Recommends: Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds From Another Planet (Album...
Just over a year ago, American-Korean Michelle Zauner released a grief-striken and cathartic album called Pyschopomp. Named after the angels that take souls to the afterlife, it was a record that...
View ArticleWPGM Recommends: LCD Soundsystem – american dream (Album Review)
“I’m just too old for it now. At least that seems to be true” are lines from the LCD Soundsystem song “change yr mind“. A hyper awareness of aging and generational differences is something that has...
View ArticleWPGM Recommends: Zola Jesus – Okovi (Album Review)
Imagine a telephone call deep into midnight with a suicidal friend. You understand their pain and perspective but you know your goal is to do your best to prevent them from hitting the self...
View ArticleWPGM Recommends: Wolf Alice – Visions Of A Life (Album Review)
“I don’t wanna be cruel but you’re really grinding. I’m not a fool but I have a rage and it’s blinding“, sings the infuriated Ellie Roswell of Wolf Alice on the anagram-titled lead single “Yuk Foo“....
View ArticleWPGM Recommends: Melanie De Biasio – Lilies (Album Review)
Mostly recorded in one single take and at the home of her long time music companion jazz multi-instrumentalist Pascal Paulus, the fourth album from Belgian flautist and vocalist Melanie De Biasio is...
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