RISING – Water Borders

I’m so sick of hearing and reading the word ‘dark’. I truly wish we’d come up with something new to describe this sort of music without using equally annoying words like grave, witch or (a sure sign of CRAP AHOY!) the dreaded nu. ‘Goth-without-goth’ is too clumsy; ‘advanced goth’ maybe, but that’s a label with – more

Another year, another list and a chance to share what we thought were some of the highlights of 2011. Here music and culture editor András G. Varga picks some of his moments from a momentous year. Summarizing a whole year is a big challenge especially in 2011. This year there was so much to be – more

Tri Angle are one of those record labels whose releases are always worth a listen; and this year, the slow-mo, dark’n’hazy aesthetic that they have pioneered was more in tune with the Zeitgeist than ever before; a fact underlined by the label when they put out an instrumental EP by Clams Casino in the summer. – more