Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Sio
Greg Fenton reviews Sio – Twilight – STY TRU BTS It’s hard not to be in love with this song. While it’s likewise easy to celebrate Sio’s honeyed vocals as they drift seamlessly across the smouldering, jazzy flavours of the music as chords blend tastefully together with perfect percussion set to a low-slung tempo that…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Yard One
Greg Fenton reviews Yard One – One Day – Tact Recordings What is it about One Day that makes me feel about modes of transportation? Maybe it’s the purposeful movement as grooves and rhythms feed into each other promising an end in sight. Or it’s the chiming melodic cascades of keys casting colour across it…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with NiCKY
Greg Fenton reviews NiCKY – by – PRAH Recordings When the piano is played so eloquently such as it is here then there is nothing better. Add to that NiCKY’s resonating voice and something rather wonderful is created. I like the way the melodies are stretched, dipping into harmonious well-being while at others feeling more…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Jay Tripwire
Greg Fenton reviews Jay Tripwire – Gone Insane – Either Recordings Reaching out to somewhere in between the fizzy cosmos of futuristic space and the lowdown, hard-hitting fierceness of House and brutal basslines is Gone Insane. I want to use the word Awesome here. As always the artist takes the mood and works it into…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Letters From Mouse
Greg Fenton Reviews Letters From Mouse – Clota – Subexotic Records The notes gathering across Clota are reminiscent of past times although they are connected to a brooding storm of current electrical conveyance. By referencing Scottish myth and legend firmly roots the album’s original concept in the past however as the sounds roundly testify the…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Millsart
Greg Fenton reviews Millsart – X-Ray Zulu – Axis Records It’s like you’re reading a novel lost in the intensity of the plot, something to do with a detective discovering something mysterious and strange. The further you detail the revelations the more enthralled you become. The music created by Millsart doesn’t conform to any particular…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Subb-An
Greg Fenton reviews Hoarfrost EP – My King Is Light Hoarfrost weaves magic between its rugged rhythms, filled with musical promise and a heart full of soul as the EP’s gorgeous title track continues Subb-An’s stellar run of releases. Featured on Thomas Melchior’s seminal label you would likewise expect the music to touch upon certain…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Groove Gorynych
Greg Fenton reviews Groove Gorynych – Takata – Airlines Records Hidden in that moment when the need to turn up the volume consumes you is the realisation that what you are listening to is valuable and worth the act. It’s found in the open spaces opening out this resplendent production blurring colours between dub and…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with mauv
Greg Fenton reviews mauv – Chainmail – all my thoughts Words are, after all, important. So are melodies. mauv splits the listener’s attention in two, between the breezy vocal essence drifting across these cool, tastefully intense grooves populated by repeating guitar notes and crisp drumming. And the synthesizers making their presence felt too along with…