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The Best Electronic Albums of 2022

The Best Electronic Albums of 2022

This year’s best electronic albums span the widest range of styles of any genre, ranging from poppy and melodic electro to the experimental outer reaches.

The 10 Best Ambient Albums of 2022

The 10 Best Ambient Albums of 2022

The post-pandemic flood of self-released ambient records has oversaturated the market in the best way: here are the best ambient albums of 2022.

Rival Consoles Gets Louder and More Theatrical on ‘Overflow’

Rival Consoles Gets Louder and More Theatrical on ‘Overflow’

It’s rewarding to hear Rival Consoles expand his range and infuse his unique brand of techno with more droning and expansive qualities on Overflow.

The 20 Best Electronic Albums of 2020

The 20 Best Electronic Albums of 2020

Electronic music is a huge tent with many diverse approaches, and it's more international than ever with producers around the globe pushing music forward. The year's best albums featured returns from established talents, as well as ground-breaking newcomers.

With ‘Articulation’ Rival Consoles Goes Back to the Drawing Board

With ‘Articulation’ Rival Consoles Goes Back to the Drawing Board

London producer Rival Consoles uses unorthodox approaches on his latest record, Articulation, resulting in a stunning, beautiful collection.

The 70 Best Albums of 2018

The 70 Best Albums of 2018

From forward-looking electronic and experimental to new approaches in the ever-evolving R&B scene, from hip-hop and punk to rock and pop, 2018 bestowed an embarrassment of musical riches upon us.

The 25 Best Electronic Albums of 2018

The 25 Best Electronic Albums of 2018

Electronic music is one of the broadest-reaching genres by design, and 2018 highlights that as well as any other year on record. These are the 25 best albums.

Rival Consoles Has Created One of the Most Vivid and Soul-stirring Electronic Albums of the Year with ‘Persona’

Rival Consoles Has Created One of the Most Vivid and Soul-stirring Electronic Albums of the Year with ‘Persona’

Persona is Rival Consoles' most engaging and diverse album to date as Ryan Lee West broadens his sonic palette. It's bold, it's diverse, it's brilliant.

Be Kind: An Interview with Rival Consoles

Be Kind: An Interview with Rival Consoles

For rising electronic artist Rival Consoles, an embrace of live, organic drums is just one of the things that make his new album, Persona, breathe with genuine emotion.

Rival Consoles: Night Melody

Rival Consoles: Night Melody

Lifting tropes from IDM, deep house, Eno-indebted ambience, and end-of-days electro, Ryan Lee West creates a borderless shadow-reality that is part somnambulant carnival and part cosmic void on Night Melody.

Rival Consoles: Howl

Rival Consoles: Howl

Rival Consoles humanizes electronic music with his scintillating third LP.

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