EXPERIMENTAL PROG

Ambient, electronica and oddities through the monocle of Jo Kendall.

This month’s column begins with where the post-punk pop of Wire and the dark industrial textures of Zoviet France collide. Graham Lewis met Mark Spybey on the Sunday Live Chat videocast hosted by cEvin Key of industrial/electronic veterans Skinny Puppy, and LewisSpybey formed as a result. Their self-titled debut (UPP Records) is a crisply produced meld of agitated EDM melodies with passages of murky ambience and unsettling electro-tics. You can dance to opener Castle Neptune, but you’ll be hiding under the stairs for the Lynchian Gray Bay Play Watch and doomy, Barry Adamson-groovy Antler Velvet. Italian new wave vocalist turned multimedia performer NicoNote draws from Björk and Diamanda Galás in creative approach, but her new album Regola (New Interplanetary Melodies/Big Doings Edizioni Musicali) wears the vestments of medieval polymath abbess…

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