Crucial Listening #97: Obay Alsharani Wombic alien mechanics, circuit-bent FIFA, worldbuilding soundtrack serendipity. The Syrian-born, Sweden-based artist discusses three important albums.
Feature: Peering Into Eternity – Thoughts On The Fadeout Meshuggah were my favourite band throughout my teens. I’d already developed a love of metal music from the age of 13, but the addition of Meshuggah’s rhythmic complexity – unusual time signatures placed directly alongside a straight 4/4 beat – resulted in the perfect combination for me. Guttural impact
Review: Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest Something is always swirling in the background of Tomorrow’s Harvest: glimmering, drifting unknown on the perimeter of audibility; a beckoning slither of light in the sky, placed intangibility high above an earth of murk and washed out shades. Eight years after the infinite summer of The Campfire Headphase comes