Category: Uncategorized
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with Pango
Greg Fenton reviews Pango – Helio – Pintai Pango’s beautifully constructed low-slung Helio wraps listeners in a warm glow of soulfully infused musicality that is at once intensely inviting and evocative, filled with atmospheric rhythms and cosmic sounds alongside a heart brimming with future possibility. Critilist then increases the tempo to a faster pace that…
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with Verses GT
Greg Fenton reviews Verses GT – LUCKYME® The music created through the collaboration between Nosaj Thing and Jacques Greene pulses with a sense of musical artistry, combined with an emotional approach that resonates throughout each of these skillfully produced tracks. Each piece sets its own rhythm, establishing a particular atmosphere and meaning that defines it.…
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with Don Letts
Greg Fenton reviews Don Letts – The Rebel Dread – Echo Beach The clue is, as usual, in the title. Don Letts has compiled a series of excellent compilations over the years, as well as contributed his invaluable films and fantastic radio show to the cultural discourse. Always the consummate entertainer with something worth listening…
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with Sijya
Greg Fenton reviews Sijya – Leather & Brass – One Little Independent Records I almost love this, and the unforgiving way life becomes dislocated and how that feeling is expressed. I only want to crash, it’s heart-warming in a bleak mode, reminding me of flickering media lost in the distortion of fading ideas. It touches…
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with Scartip
Greg Fenton reviews Scartip – CRATE DUTY – Hypercolour Records Does everything have to make complete and obvious sense all of the time? Or can we allow for error or mystery? Create Duty opens with a sound that resembles a twisted rendition of cinema gone rogue, altering perception and painting moody atmospheres alongside voices that…
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with Hilit Kolet & The Illustrious Blacks
Greg Fenton reviews Hilit Kolet & The Illustrious Blacks – Transatlantic Kiki EP – Rekids Two records reviewed in a week eliciting the tribal/techno fever reaching out from the late nineties. Just don’t say it’s a revival. The last thing we need right now is yet more flaccid nostalgia as Rome burns. This record is…
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with LOVEFOXY
Greg Fenton reviews LOVEFOXY – On Da Table – WHP Records Sometimes music is irresistible. Maybe because in this instance I get reminded of the hazy blur surrounding the latter part of the late 90s and consequent tribal rhythms echoing from the hearts of Vasquez, Tenaglia etc, that the thrill of this quick-fire gem finds…
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with Visions Of Light
Greg Fenton reviews Visions Of Light – Swimming In A Sea Of Stars – The Freebooter Lounge As summer drew slowly to a close, you might be forgiven for thinking that music would become more energised to shake off the winter blues, but given the weather’s unpredictability, who knows which way the wind blows? Following…
-
Magazine Sixty Music Review with Kit Grill
Greg Fenton reviews Kit Grill – Red Dances – Primary Colours Records Music that plugs directly into heartbeats. Kit Grill’s eloquent, uncomplicated sounds dance and glide across the airwaves with a delicate poignancy, so much so that you could quite easily fall in love for at least the duration. Infused with the trill of melody…