Favorite Albums/Recent Spins
Evangelic Girl Is A Gun - Yeule (Ninja Tune, 2025)
Genre: Alternative/Electronic
The summary: Yeule’s fourth album is basically the perfect blend of the electronic glitchiness from Serotonin II and the grungier, shoegaze vibes of softscars. It’s awesome hearing Nat use her natural voice more often on tracks like "Saiko," saving the heavy vocal effects for when they really count. My only real gripe is that it’s way too short—the whole thing clocks in under 33 minutes. The closer, "Skullcrusher," cuts off right when you expect it to explode, which is a bit frustrating, but hopefully, that’s just a tease for where they're going next.
Flaunt It! - Sigue Sigue Sputnik (Manhattan/EMI, 1986)
Genre: Electronic
Back in the day, critics wrote these guys off as "style over substance" because of the hype and the commercials between songs, but honestly? The music holds up. With Giorgio Moroder producing, it’s basically like if Suicide got a massive major-label budget and decided to make a rockabilly-cyberpunk record. The pulsing synth bass and Elvis-style vocals are addictive, and forty years later, it still sounds ahead of its time. If you want a deep dive, Cherry Red put out a great box set recently that is definitely worth tracking down.
Alan Vega and Collision Drive - Alan Vega (Sacred Bones, 2026)
Genre: Rock
TIf you know Alan Vega from Suicide, you know he was a pioneer, but a lot of his solo stuff was hard to find in the US for ages outside of some patchy reissues. Sacred Bones finally stepped up to release his self-titled debut and Collision Drive, and it’s about time. These records lean way harder into his Elvis and rockabilly roots than his pure electronic work, and they’ve been missing from the racks for too long - the last time they were on CD in the US, they were paired together on one CD from Henry Rollins' reissue label Infinite Zero in 1996 (that disc itself being a clone of a 1989 import CD). Here’s hoping the label keeps the momentum going with the rest of his post-Elektra catalog.