Picking up the pieces of the picked-up pieces, Wand ride on, baby. It’s only three months since they dropped the incredible mass of Vertigo upon the world… but WHAT? Here’s more! One: a new 12” EP plating the pre-release single “Help Desk” alongside “Goldfish”, a bonus dose of oceanic luminescence from Vertigo — plus three remixes from Beat Detectives, Dean Spunt and Dead Rider for good measure. Two: an LP release of the archival In a Capsule Underground, containing demos and unreleased songs... (read more)

The warmth of this summer may be fading, but the light of Jill Fraser continues to pour in! Today, the electronic composer releases “Beautiful Summer”, a 1904 hymn read anew by machines of the future that serves as the second and final single off her forthcoming album, Earthly Pleasures.

On “Beautiful Summer”, Jill’s Serge and Prism modular units offer luminous bell tones and chimes to build her arrangement up towards the heavens, placing the notes in alternative sequences of time and harmonic... (read more)

Anthony Moore’s post-Slapp Happy output, for years an underrated-to-outright-unknown quantity, achieves another dimensional plane with Home of the Demo, out October 25 on Drag City. This third archival release from his personal tape library triangulates upon the art-pop qualities found in his previously unreleased OUT (1976, officially issued 2020) and the new wave-adjacent Flying Doesn’t Help (1979, reissued 2022), finding Anthony’s early/mid-80s compositions drifting whimsically into the actual mainstream. With today’s news, the single “Earthbound Misfit” releases from Anthony’s... (read more)

Uploading into the ether with remarkable speed, here comes Dean Spunt’s loaded-down new LP! Basic Editions, out September 27, is the No Age artisan’s latest solo work, humming and blipping with Y2K-era digital modules and celestial soundscapes to achieve a post-existence state of ambient chaos. Today, Dean’s hitting you with another ping: a new single/video, “Confusion Is SysEx”, is now online!

To boot up “Confusion Is SysEx”, hard edits of aquatic synth thunderheads and crumpled balls of digi-junk bop up slowly,... (read more)