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 Burial – Comafields / Imaginary Festival – Hyperdub If you like ideas to expand in long form, Burial’s latest release of sound will excite nerve endings just as it will the brain, soul and function. Although the twelve plus minutes of Comafields flash by in an almost instant, weaving in and out
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Greg Fenton reviews Almost An Island – Past Inside The Present This album reveals a wealth of heart and meaning to inquisitive minds. It’s a particular revelation if you’re open to its cocktail of sonic release. Disregarding any unnecessary complication, the messages contained breathe directly to a flair of rewarding, innate musicality that still resides
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Greg Fenton reviews DJ Counselling – Speaking in Code Acting as a tour guide into the depths of urban sprawl, traversing dark corners, becoming beacons of light as the age of shadows gives way to a flourish of hope. DJ Counselling’s proud new album is a supremely gifted hymn to city life and the act
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Greg Fenton reviews Agosta – For Today feat. Chiara Castello – Space Echo Records Not so much dipped in nostalgia but drenched in the echo of dreamy west-coast sunshine of shimmering guitars, reclining percussion and Chiara Castello’s heart-warming voice. As keys change, so does the impression of uplifting possibilities while movement passes effortlessly by in
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(Cover credit Patrick Lakey) Greg Fenton reviews Stars of the Lid – Music for Nitrous Oxide – Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing Thirty years seems like an increasingly small amount of time as the years pass by, but here we are. Remastered anew for 2025, the thing that matters most is the feelings generated, which have lost
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Greg Fenton reviews Sean Harvey – Fearless EP – District Rec Capturing moods and atmosphere, Sean Harvey’s shimmering, shuffling, fizzy rhythm offers all that’s needed to do so. Fearless, rolls tribal drums over a cascade of punctuation and synthesised motifs, still leaving room for breathy suggestion. The Constant Drum continues the mystery centred on drums
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Greg Fenton reviews Tripmastaz – Tortured Soul – Adam’s Bite Hot wiring funk to technological mastery is, as ever, Tripmastaz’s specific trademark, exercising the excitement of sounds just as he does the endless possibilities of electronic discourse. GFK’s Dream begins exploring a diverse range of styles, incorporating them all under one groove to keep the
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Greg Fenton reviews Yard One – Neuroglow EP – Tact Recordings Listening to this latest collection of musical pieces from Yard One, you realise the amount of creative depth and emotional release stitched into each sound and the way those conversations then congregate around stimulating senses, much like a journey into a smouldering mystery. It’s
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Greg Fenton reviews João Paulo Esteves da Silva and Samuel Rohrer – Fluttering Wings – Arjunamusic Records As deep as it is personal, the communication between artist and listener is never more intensely rich than demonstrated by this story of lone piano and its various connecting parts. These are, in this instance, fizzy flashes of
