This weekend will see the BAFTA Games in Concert arrive in Birmingham, bringing some of the biggest and best scores across the industry to the second city. Among them is the music of Wilbert Roget II, ...
There’s something seductively audacious about the concept album. While most records aim simply to collect a dozen good songs, the concept album goes further – weaving tracks together with a narrative ...
It's been a tough run for the industry, but there's plenty of strong contenders for game of the year, from old franchises to ...
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24 Hours In Barcelona With Absolutely, Pop's New Alien Princess

Following her Disney Island performance at Primavera Sound, Absolutely opens up about the creative world behind ‘Paracosm', ...
The band’s second album by the same title is an unclassifiable mood piece: a strangely heightened world of desperate characters and hooks like enervated simulacra of more familiar songs. On Your Day ...
Last year, I asked Shabason about his deepening affinity for ultra-smooth, AOR-coded textures, and he described a kind of ...
Transhumanist artist, digital rubble sifter and brain frying YouTube manipulator Zaron Mizmeras explains what the hell is ...
The idea of music that prompts strong unbidden cinematic images when you listen to it has never been explored, as far as I know. Accordingly, I’ve minted the word ‘cinemaesthesia’ – as opposed to ...