Boards of Canada: Why Does Their Music Feel Like a Memory?
Boards of Canada have created some of electronic music’s most distinctive and strangely familiar sounds: music that seems to evoke memories you’re not quite sure you ever had. We explore their mysteri...
5 Okt 24min
AI in Music: Threat, Tool or the Next Evolution?
Artificial intelligence is suddenly everywhere in music: writing songs, generating voices, creating performances and raising uncomfortable questions about creativity, ownership and what it means to be...
28 Sep 21min
David Crosby | One Voice, Several Lives
David Crosby is one of those musicians whose life story can sometimes obscure his music.The Byrds. Crosby, Stills & Nash. Laurel Canyon. Drugs, prison, fallouts, extraordinary excess and, eventually, ...
21 Sep 22min
The War on Drugs | How Did Heartland Rock Become a Dreamscape?
What makes The War on Drugs sound so familiar, yet so completely their own? Drawing on the widescreen sweep of classic American rock, Adam Granduciel and his band transform guitars, synthesisers and r...
14 Sep 21min
Donald Fagen – The Nightfly | Nostalgia for a Future That Never Arrived?
Can an album be nostalgic for a future that never arrived?When Donald Fagen released The Nightfly in 1982, it sounded unlike anything else. Immaculately produced, filled with jazz sophistication and l...
7 Sep 24min
The Durutti Column | Can a Guitar Whisper?
Can music change the atmosphere of a room without demanding your attention?Few bands have occupied that strange, beautiful space quite like The Durutti Column. Often associated with Factory Records, p...
31 Aug 21min
Eagles – Hotel California | What Was the American Dream Turning Into?
How did Hotel California become one of the defining albums of the 1970s?Released in 1976, Hotel California found the Eagles at a remarkable creative peak. Beautifully produced and meticulously arrange...
24 Aug 23min
Talk Talk | What Can In Another World Tell Us About Talk Talk?
What does In Another World reveal about one of the most intriguing bands of the last forty years?In this episode of Low Noise, we discuss Graeme Thomson’s In Another World: The Four Seasons of Talk Ta...
17 Aug 28min
