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A shiny blurt of electronic noise bounces through the new Empress Of track “Water Water,” evoking and distorting the steady drip of the titular element. Like a giant,

It’s hard not to like Ezra Furman, for the same reason it’s hard not to like a golden retriever puppy: the sheer enthusiasm and sincerity (not to mention

It can be difficult for those who came of age before the 1980s to find the sound of soul in a synthesizer (just ask my dad). But the

These are great days for compilations of popular musics from around the world that have gone overlooked by musicologists’ reverence for traditional forms and millennials’ gravitation toward a

Where are the survivors of 1990s electronica? I’m thinking in particular about groups with charismatic women singers: Everything But the Girl, Portishead, Sneaker Pimps, Olive, Mono, Ivy, and