Magazine Sixty
Music reviews and artist interviews
Magazine Sixty brings you reviews and interviews with some of the worlds leading independent artists. Discover excitng new electronic music, revisit seminal classics and hear from the people behind the sounds.
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Greg Fenton reviews Double Body – Mirage EP – Ransom Note Records Why should music do as you expect? Be predictable and or boring. It’s diving into the sense of uncertain mystery that is surely the more exciting prospect. The title track Mirage begins by setting the stage with a series of bruising kick drums,
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Greg fenton reviews Panfil & Rubh – I Like EP – Materialism Stripping it down to bare essentials this fiery production from Panfil & Rubh pushes all sorts of buttons simultaneously. It couldn’t be said that this is about intellectual discovery yet, put directly and brutally, it’s about the celebration of beats, bass and soaring
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Photo by Caitlin Warren Read our in-depth interview with the brilliant sound artist, composer, and documentary maker Alice Boyd. By exploring the exciting art of field recording alongside more traditional means of musical expression she is a most fascinating and creative artist who is releasing a wonderful new EP – Cloud Walking. Welcome to Magazine
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Greg Fenton reviews Gråzon, Hame, Pango and Tren – Pintai 001 Gråzon’s rapturous Dealing Is Healing begins the celebration of this first release from Pintai, a label centered around the Amsterdam based parties of the same name. An inward-looking yet joyous declaration of the universal the music is powered by a series of contrasts as
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Greg Fenton reviews Scanner – Columns – The Vinyl Factory It’s easy to throw cliques around such as journey, narrative, or immersive to describe music. All are brilliant signifiers although have a definite air of over-familiarity in the current moment. So for the sake of argument and risk of running approval let’s use the perennial
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Greg Fenton reviews Snowdrops – Singing Stones (Volume 1) – Gizeh Records Listening to Singing Stones is an experience filled with wonder. Captivated by unfolding, unknown sounds as they suggest bigger pictures in the mind while pouring nourishing tones into your soul is always a gratefully received prospect. Perhaps the two pieces initially grabbing your
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Greg Fenton reviews Afterlife & Moonseed present – Primal Virtue – Subatomic Dancing around notes engulfing a sonic path while heading toward enlightenment this enticing collaboration has dared to produce music sprinkled with the achievement of wonder. Afterlife and Moonseed weave spells like they fashion sounds enriched by the air of mystery unfolding across the
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Greg Fenton reviews boycalledcrow – eyetrees – Hive Mind Records Time again to engage with boycalledcrow and his weird, pastoral, funky folk completed by a heavy dose of psychedelic soul – I was never one for sticking with any one genre – which as with previous albums fuses the delight of discovering together with a
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Greg Fenton reviews Angel Lin – All Of These Are In Me – Full Spectrum Records Are there fresh ways of describing music that doesn’t rely upon words to convey a message? Probably not. But I guess what is important is the intensity of emotions that get stirred by listening to sounds without boundaries. Angel
