Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Today, we look back at Gina X Performance’s innovative debut LP Nice Mover, a seminal work from a group that had a […]
Out of Six Million Sperms Cells: Scott Ryser of The Units on Synthpunk’s Past, Present and Future
Earlier this year, in our Fossil Records column, I covered The Units’ seminal but unfortunately more or less impossible to find Digital Stimulation, trumpeting it as not only a founding document of synthpunk but also a legendary album long overdue for a new release. Not long after, I got my wish, as Futurismo Inc. reissued the […]
Synth Patches: Electroconvulsive Therapy Vol. 3 is an Intriguing Collection of Rare Electronic Singles
I’ve spent the past hour playing Almost Alone’s “Blue City” on a loop. My first reflexive thought was that it was odd for a synth pop band to rip off Yo La Tengo’s “Autumn Sweater” for a song intro, but this thought does not make sense. Almost Alone recorded the song in 1984 and it […]
Video of the Week: Doprah “Stranger People”
New Zealand has housed a covertly excellent music scene since at least the ’70s, but the outre duo Doprah is a different kind of beast altogether. Featuring production like the glitchiest of Anticon’s new wave and vocals that outspooky the bulk of the 4AD catalog, Doprah is startling weird even before you get to their […]