Silverclub is the brainchild of Manchester’s Duncan Edward Jonesan, an outfit from Manchester, England. Silverclub play electronic music. Going down the road of LCD Soundsystem by the way of Bowie’s Berlin period and Roxy Music, I figured I’d at least give their new EP, No Application, a spin. I wasn’t disappointed.
No Application’s opening is certainly a pumping number, with a strong bass pushing the whole track forward for it’s whole three minutes fifty. It throws the EP straight in to Low and ‘Heroes’ territory, the vocals tinged with Bowie’s drawl. …

Open the envelope and smell two brand new digipacks, Death and Rebirth from Afterlife Parade! I don’t understand how people can download MP3′s, and not buy a hard copy of an album. Most people I know don’t backup their data, so in case of hardware failure, all MP’3 are gone. Having a hard copy of an album, smelling it, feeling it, is different. How can you read the credit list? Following the usual routine, I’ve spun a CD into the CD player, sat on my sofa, and like a kid …

England’s got a good track record for electronic music. It’s got the father of ambient music: Brian Eno. It’s got the most soulful dubstep out there: Burial. It’s got one a guy that Philip Glass covered: Aphex Twin. And it’s got James Blake, apparently a peddler of something called ‘post-dubstep’. What links these artists together, apart from the Englishness? They’re all mixed together in a man from Bristol, by the name of Joseph Parsons. In a project called Poltergeists, he has recently released his debut album ‘Movements’. Another step in …