Pye Corner Audio

Ride’s Andy Bell released his terrific solo debut last year, and has now announced the three-part ”Ever Decreasing Circles” EP series featuring remixes and reworks by Pye Corner Audio.

“Skywalker“ is one of the standouts from Andy’s 2020 solo album and it does indeed have connections to a certain beloved sci-fi universe.

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums by pre-Versus band Flower, John Foxx & The Maths, Winter, and Pye Corner Audio, plus two classic Chills albums get vinyl reissues.

UK monthly Uncut’s Best Albums of 2019 list includes records from Nick Cave, Wilco, Bill Callahan, Purple Mountains, Leonard Cohen, Sharon Van Etten, Weyes Blood, Lana Del Rey, Joan Shelley and more.

Listen to new songs by Denzel Curry (covering Rage Against the Machine), Cardi B/Bruno Mars, Tom Petty, Black Thought, Salaam Remi/Nas/Amy Winehouse, Lucki/Earl Sweatshirt, and more.

This week: the debut LP from Piroshka (members of Lush, Elastica, Moose, Modern English), new records by Anemone and Pye Corner Audio, plus Cranes’ debut reissued, and a new video by audiobooks.

SAVAK will be on a short tour in January featuring The Effects (members of Faraquet and Beauty Pill) and North Carolina’s fierce, nervy Patois Counselors .

There is an insane overabundance of killer shows and other goings-on today in NYC. Among them: The Make-Up, The xx, Vulture Fest, Cat Power, Sacred Bones’ 10th Anniversary show, Derv Gordon of the Equals, Laura Marling, Tiger’s Jaw, Thurston Moore, Cro-Mags, the Brooklyn Flea Record Fair…and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

The 2017 Moogfest lineup includes Flying Lotus, Animal Collective, Gotye, Suzanne Ciani, Derrick May, 808 State, Jessy Lanza, Simian Mobile Disco, Moor Mother, Syrinx, Visible Cloaks, Princess Nokia, Pye Corner Audio, Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein of S U R V I V E, and more.

British electronic musician Martin Jenkins has been making records under the name Pye Corner Audio for most of this decade. Using a collection of eccentric analog snyths and lo-fi recording, he creates a retro-distopian-future sound filtered through John Carpenter soundtracks, JG Ballard novels, early Mute Records and all things dark and seedy…