Articles by Daniel Sylvester

Kode9

Nothing

PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2015

Nothing, Kode9's first album since the death of his recording partner, the Spaceape, is just as dark and mournful as one would expect, but...

Shujaat Husain Khan & Katayoun Goudarzi

Ruby

PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2015

Northern Indian sitar great Shujaat Husain Khan and Iranian chanteuse Katayoun Goudarzi have harnessed their mutual admiration of Rumi's wo...

The Yawpers

American Man

PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2015

On their debut LP, the Yawpers attempted to capture the same grit, vigour and knack for storytelling that helped artists like Alejandro Esc...

Shigeto

Intermission EP

PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2015

Earlier this year, when Shigeto announced that he would be working with jazz veteran Dave Douglas on a future project and Detroit rapper Ze...

!!! Up the Funk and Honour Disco on 'As If'

PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2015

Sacramento dance punk sextet !!! just released their sixth full-length, the ambitious, disco-baiting As If, on Warp Records. And while some...

The Kinks

Sunny Afternoon: The Very Best of

PUBLISHED Oct 16, 2015

Released a year after the debut of the jukebox musical Sunny Afternoon, this 48-track Kinks retrospective seems confused about what it want...

!!!

As If

PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2015

In the early days of !!!, members Nic Offer, Tyler Pope and Justin Van Der Volgen formed side project Out Hud as an outlet to create a soun...

Dan Friel

Life

PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2015

As the former vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist for Brooklyn noise rock band Parts & Labor, Dan Friel's approach to electronic-based music usu...