The Music of Eldest Souls: An Interview with Sergio Ronchetti
“I remember playing Dead Space and just thinking ‘why is it so scary?’,” Sergio Ronchetti tells me of the first time he realised that someone must have been responsible for […]
Album Review: Sunset Neon – Starlight (2017)
A side project for the multi-genre producer/artist Blue Stahli (aka Bret Autrey), Sunset Neon is focused on synthwave, with a retro-futuristic, melodic sound that’s a great example of why the […]
The Music of Dota: Dragon’s Blood: An Interview with Dino Meneghin
“I only realised how big Dota was when I went home and Googled it. I saw there was a tournament with a $35 million prize and just thought – how […]
Music Review: Télépopmusik: Everybody Breaks the Line
French electronic band Télépopmusik released the gorgeous album Genetic World in 2001, to great critical success, selling over 350,000 copies worldwide. Follow up Angel Milk, released in 2005, failed to […]
Review: Sounds of Eden
Back in the early 90s – when I was in my mid-teens – my peer group and I were having our minds expanded by all of the non-mainstream music we were discovering – we started by finding decidedly non-chart friendly alternative rock and electronic music; genres such as industrial for example. We all ended up going in different directions in […]
Music Review: Chromeo – Quarantine Casanova EP
I first became aware of cheeky retro-electro funk duo Chromeo in 2007 at a British festival called The Big Chill. For a number of years back then, I used to attend that particular festival with a group of close friends; it was small but grew to a decent enough size that it attracted some phenomenal acts – and it was […]
The Music of Marvel’s Avengers: An Interview with Bobby Tahouri
“For me it was watching The Untouchables and hearing Ennio Morricone’s score,” Bobby Tahouri says, about what it was that made him want to become a film composer. “My father […]
The Music of Ghost of Tsushima: An Interview with Ilan Eshkeri
“I wanted to be a guitarist in a rock and roll band,” Ilan Eshkeri tells me, “but it all went terribly wrong!” Given how acclaimed, prolific and talented Ilan Eshkeri […]
Film Review: Depeche Mode: Spirits in the Forest
I’m a bit weird when it comes to music. I struggle with most songs that have lyrics, mostly because I find them so hard to ‘hear’ unless I know what’s […]
Weekly Round Up
Has another week passed? It sure has! As we hurtle uncontrollably towards Christmas and the end of another year – as well as, terrifyingly, the end of another decade – let’s take a look at what I wrote during the first week of December. Revisiting Assassin’s Creed I struggled through about a third of Assassin’s Creed around nine years ago, […]
Playlist
Ever since I started writing my blog, over 200 days and articles ago, my focus has mainly been on games. Not necessarily just video games – I’ve covered tabletop RPGs, board games and card games too – but generally gaming in some form or other. I’ve also taken the odd detour into more personal territory a few times and there’s […]
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
I wasn’t a Daft Punk fan at first. Their first album – Homework – just felt way too repetitive; it sounded like a collection of songs built to dance to […]
