A year in music… 2022 saw a good combination of legacy acts and new outfits delivering some amazing music across the year. It was also a period in which electronic music was given another opportunity to demonstrate how broad a … Read More
2022’s best electronic albums… As ever, this past year saw a wealth of electronic music talent both new and old serving up a wide variety of tunes. Among those releases, there was a good balance between effective synth-pop as well … Read More
Good sailors always return… Back in 2015, a-ha surprised everyone by doing a volte-face on their then-retirement to return with new album Cast In Steel (see TEC review). That album presented the band in a more mature light and seemed … Read More
Exploring a tough year… It’s an inescapable fact that 2020 has proved to be a grim year for many reasons, but chiefly because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, despite the gruelling impact of Covid both personally and … Read More
Norwegian legends are given the in-depth treatment… The meteoric rise of Norwegian synth-pop outfit a-ha during the mid-1980s was an event that seemed unlikely at the time, not least to the band’s founder-members. Yet, since their formation in 1982, Pål … Read More
A year in electronic music… 2019 proved to be a hectic year for electronic music with new acts emerging, old acts releasing new material, a wealth of music events and some intriguing crossovers. Here, TEC looks back on 12 months … Read More