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.
20 Dec 2018
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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.
07 Dec 2018
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.
12 Apr 2018
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.
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09 Apr 2018
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.
09 Aug 2016
Rival Consoles: Howl
Rival Consoles humanizes electronic music with his scintillating third LP.
18 Oct 2015
Kiasmos/Rival Consoles: 65/ Milo
A split that divides time between dubby bleep 'n' bass and messy cut-up intelligent dance music that is indeed danceable.
15 Nov 2009
Rival Consoles: IO
In the foreground, it's a solid slab of dance beats and sequencers; in the background, it's something more.
26 Oct 2009
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