Along the red brick walls of your local neighbourhood are children sitting bored out of their minds. Every place that could be a park is an industrial estate, the schools use car parks as a playground, and what kid has a toy? When every adult is working, the unsupervised world comes to ‘life’ – but…
I LOVE YOU PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME CRY ANYMORE. Bogdan Raczynski’s album cover for his album myloveilove is an almost disturbingly personal image of him laying beside you, with a pink hue overlaid. It sets the tone for his 17 track masterpiece, which explores heartbreak through his out of tune singing and accordions and synths…
Whilst I let my body sink into the sofa cushions, I listened to Grimes’ 2012 Visions album for the thousandth time. Track 8 starts to play as I become intimately fused to the furniture, “Be a Body”. Unable to move, my mind spirals as I question what it even means to be a body. Grimes…
Bodies drenched in sweat will grind against each other when under a strobe light, whether the setting is a dingy basement or an abandoned factory. The music allows us to express our deepest desires with our bodies, becoming almost primitive. Yet electronic music’s intimate technological relationship has impacted how we interact with the subculture. Technology…