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Tag Archives: Electronic

05.17.13

Ideas of Reference: Ten Years of Four Tet, Rounds

BY PETER LILLIS Ten years ago, Four Tet released Rounds, his third full-length, and his most focused work. Four Tet—UK’s Keiran Hebden—composed an affirming masterwork of mood, rhythm and repetition using only disparate, seemingly unrelated samples, culled from just about anywhere you can imagine, and beyond. Throughout Rounds, Hebden carefully stacks loose, manipulated jazz rhythms...
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01.14.13

The Albums We Missed, 2012 Edition: Part 2

BY PETER LILLIS Today, we continue to spotlight some of our favorite albums of 2012 that we didn’t get a chance to cover through the year. Read Part 1. Patrick Watson – Adventures In Your Own Backyard Adventures In Your Own Backyard is one of the finest composed and performed pieces of chamber folk since Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois....
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12.03.12

The Top 50 Albums of 2012: 50-41

The year-end top 50 list is a staple of music publications everywhere.  There are many reasons for this, from the credibility such a list brings, to the crowd-pleasing nature of lists, to the pseudo-autistic need need for order shared by most music obsessives.  Mostly, though, these lists are everywhere because they’re a lot of fun...
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08.13.12

The New Electronic Aesthetic: A Review of Lorn, Ask The Dust

There is a powerful, sinister quality to Ask the Dust, the newest release from Milwaukee-based electronic producer Lorn. The album has almost a transformational quality to it. I first listened to it in a Laundromat, as once innocent looking dryers morphed into cold and distant industrial machinery; a paunchy, shirtless man transforming from an eccentric curiosity...
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07.20.12

Getting Wet with Tycho: An Interview with Scott Hansen

Musician, designer, producer extraordinaire Scott Hansen (aka Tycho, or ISO50) shines bright as an original independent artist in the times of nostalgia and referential art. His latest full-length Dive is a masterful work of mood and effects, somehow managing to transform any setting into a sundrenched paradise. We got to speak with Hansen at his last...
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05.14.12

Unknown Pleasures of Middle America: A Review of Daughn Gibson’s All Hell

Our collective notion of order is slowly being eroded by the postmodern era in which we live. Howard Stern is the host of a television talent show. Dumpster diving is a fad. Edamame is sold at grocery stores in portable pouches. People are becoming fragmented and contradictory, at best diversified and informed, at worst overexposed...
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03.30.12

Frontier Psychiatrist Monthly Mixtape: March 2012

Thanks to our busy time at SXSW, we were a bit slow on posting  our mixtape this month.  So, instead of the usual two-installment approach, today we deliver the whole thing.   This should be more than enough music to distract you from your actual work on this Friday afternoon. 1. Chromatics – “Kill for Love”...
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03.02.12

Free And Easy: February 2012

(Each month, we at Frontier Psychiatrist bring you some of our favorite free music from the last 30 days in our column Free And Easy.  We hope you enjoy this month’s installment.  For previous entries, click here.) James Blake – Live We’ve made no secret of our love for James Blake; indeed, we named his debut...
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02.17.12

Frontier Psychiatrist Monthly Mixtape: February 2012, Side A

And now, for your enjoyment, Side A of our February mixtape. If you missed our January tape, stream sides A & B or download the whole thing from our Tumblr. 1. Evian Christ – “MYD”
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01.23.12

Songs Without Words: A Review of DropxLife’s Furthur

“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” -Gustav Mahler For the young listener, the move from vocal-driven music to vocal-less music has typically marked the first step on the long descent into music nerdery.  Most casual listeners view pop music...
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01.05.12

Frontier Psychiatrist Winter Preview

Resuming the process of writing about new music after a mega-year-in-review blowout is kind of like showing up to work in the morning following an evening of getting hammered at an all-night holiday party (not that anyone on our staff knows anything about that).  Nonetheless, our job is to keep you informed on new music,...
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12.15.11

The 50 Best Albums of 2011: 10-1

(All week we’re counting down the top albums of 2011.  For previous entries on the list, click here.  We hope you enjoy the music.) 10. Balam Acab – Wander/Wonder In 2010, with critically acclaimed releases from young artists like James Blake and How To Dress Well, the re-purposing of classic R&B became all the rage.  Of...
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