Electronic
Noah’s Barks pages relating to the electronic music genre. Combine with other tags for subgenres, e.g. “electronic+indie.”
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Ashra – “Belle Alliance”
Like the colorful cover suggests, Belle Alliance is goofier and more playful than previous Ashra releases. Its genre is still progressive electronic, but it has the spirit of synthy, ’80s new wave pumping through it. The synthesizers sound like children playing with toys, but because of the lighter nature of Göttsching’s guitar, they fit in… (read more)
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Boards of Canada – “In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country”
In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country sums up Boards of Canada in an easy 24 minutes. Like their albums, half of this is pretty solid, while the other half consists of pieces that sound like unrealized sketches a better artist wouldn’t have thought fit to release, or at least to drag out for… (read more)
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The Chemical Brothers – “B-Sides Volume 1”
For a compilation, B-Sides Volume 1 is sequenced professionally well and is extra incentive to pick this up. It plays like a lost Chemical Brothers album, and fortunately, it’s a good one—for the most part. Some typical (albeit typically competent) by-the-books beats make up these selections, such as “H.I.A.,” “Let Me in Mate,” and “Prescription… (read more)
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Madonna – “The Immaculate Collection” (1990)
Featured on The Immaculate Collection, “Into the Groove” is in the prestigious hall of fame of “perfect pop songs.” The qualification for entering is, when you ask someone which part of the song is the hook, everyone gives you a different answer. I refuse to believe in anything being perfect, but some things are closer… (read more)
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Boards of Canada – “The Campfire Headphase”
A Boards of Canada album I actually like? ‘The Campfire Headphase’ is the duo’s only album to sound like a complete, unified work. (read more)
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Fever Ray – “Fever Ray”
Like my friend edl_mota said, Fever Ray curiously sounds like Donkey Kong Country ambiance. I feel like I’m in that Gloomy Gulch world in Donkey Kong Country 2 when I listen to this, which is a compliment since Forest Interlude is my favorite song on the soundtrack. But I’m getting off track; she’s still no… (read more)
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Daft Punk – “Homework”
There are great beats all over ‘Homework,’ but these simple beats often carry too much of the track length, feeling like static fragments of something greater. (read more)
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Suicide – “American Supreme” (2002)
Another Suicide album, another different sound. Martin Rev plays minimalist techno beats on American Supreme, which are kind of fun, but you quickly realize how repetitive they can get when not backed up by the layers and rhythmic complexity of classic techno albums, like those by Underworld. At the very least, they don’t necessarily play… (read more)
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Suicide – “Why Be Blue” (1992)
Somewhere along the line, keyboardist Martin Rev and vocalist Alan Vega lost their initial one-of-a-kind chemistry and began to pull in different directions. If you ask me, it happened with Why Be Blue. I won’t deny Suicide’s self-titled debut album is easily their best, and neither would most people, but I still think they had… (read more)
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Everything but the Girl – “Walking Wounded”
Walking Wounded is a surprisingly competent downtempo album often carried by active drum and bass beats that massage the mind while the dual vocals of Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn soothe your ears. It’s astonishing how well this vocal duo complement each other—it’s very easy to not consciously notice when they swap vocal duties out… (read more)