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Beauty in banality
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 17/11/2019
» The year 2014 was quite an exciting one for music. On the Top 40 front, we had a handful of inescapable earworms, like Pharrell Williams' Happy, Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX's Fancy and Taylor Swift's Shake It Off. Elsewhere, new talents like FKA twigs and Arca came out with their cutting-edge debut albums (LP1 and Xen, respectively). Standing among those high profile releases was Total Strife Forever, the debut record by English musician William Doyle, who at the time went by the moniker East India Youth.
Returning to form
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 31/03/2019
» It's hard to believe it's been nearly two decades since Ladytron unleashed its own version of electropop to the world. Hailing from Liverpool, the quartet of Helen Marnie, Mira Aroyo, Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu first introduced themselves with their 2001 debut 604, a solid 16-track collection heavily influenced by the likes of Kraftwerk, New Order and Depeche Mode. In a period when the UK charts sounded a little uninspired (the No.1 singles ranged from JLo's Love Don't Cost A Thing to Limp Bizkit's Rollin' to Afroman's Because I Got High -- you get the idea), Ladytron's simmering cauldron of synth-pop and electro-industrial almost felt like an act of rebellion.
Paradise Regained
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 03/12/2017
» On new record 'Utopia', the Icelandic songstress moves on from the hurt of her 2015 break-up album and rediscovers the sublime bliss of intimacy felt in the bucolic natural world.
Have Some Compassion
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 04/06/2017
» After a four-year wait, Forest Swords finally returns with his most polished, cohesive piece of work yet
The Healing Process
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 26/02/2017
» Sampha's long-anticipated debut solo LP sees him dealing with loss and anxiety as he arrives on the scene fully formed as an artist.
Getting a bit too close to the sun
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 13/11/2016
» The synth pop duo's latest album lets their flamboyant personas do the heavy lifting
The Peacetime Sound
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 02/10/2016
» After trading in dark atmospherics the LA indie rockers craft a looser and more relaxed sound on their latest offering.
The BeastsUntamed
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 14/08/2016
» Electronic influences and uninhabited lust reach their peak on British art-rockers Wild Beasts' latest studio offering.