OVAL - Romantiq LP T-Shirts

OVAL - Romantiq LP T-ShirtsThe music of Markus Popp is endlessly curious. Since the early 90s his pioneering albums as Oval have continually excavated new spaces in electronic music, leaving an indelible mark on the landscape. Popps playful and singular approach to sound has continually left critics and peers alike confounded by his ability to conjure such lithe, evocative sonics from software. Celebrated collaborations with Jan St. Werner as Microstoria remain foundational

A fuzzy masterpiece

The band are arguably at their tightest here

glorious weirdness of the world

unanswerable questions and wrestling with them in a very earthbound way

Employing a similar palette of sounds

one of the great over-looked ballads of the era given an almost ecclesiastical makeover by Matthew Hord and Frankie Rose in 2021

or the Boxhead Ensemble

The interviews are extremely personal and reveal much more than any interview granted to street press or blogs

gauzier world

Dorset: In the Shadow of Golden By Memotone

Demdike sound at their most red-eyed and pensive in this strung out

JP SHILO (HUNGRY GHOSTS) and producer LINDSAY GRAVINA make for a formidable backline