Cordavision Music Reviews

I never wanna hear fragments of music, you know? I’ll just listen to stems if I want fragments. If I’m being totally honest, I don’t know anything about Bonobo. All I know about him is that he’s a British producer based in Los Angeles. I’ve never heard a single Bonobo track before this album nor have I heard his production. I really do enjoy going into an artist blind. What caught my attention to cover this album was that one of the singles features Joji, and I really dug that song. So, Fragments is the producer’s seventh album, and after doing some research, it seems like 2010’s Black Sands is regarded as his best album. I personally haven’t heard that project yet, but will Fragments inspire me to check out the rest of his music? Let’s get into it and find out. I like any kind of electronic album that’s great at building an atmosphere, and this album really does that well. I really liked the use of orchestral pieces on this too. If this is a constant theme with his music, I’m alread...

As a film major trying to get into photography, this cover is absolutely gorgeous and I really hope it isn’t digitally made. I think I should go through a little crash course of DARKSIDE. Or at least the members of them. Prolific electronic producer Nicolás Jaar (For R&B fans, he produced The Weeknd’s “Call Out My Name.”) and multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington come back together as the DARKSIDE duo after a six-year gap from their debut album, Psychic . That’s really all I got on it. It’s rumored that this was recorded back in 2018 and finished in 2019 but hasn’t seen the light of day for currently unknown reasons. The duo’s second album, Spiral , is here for the public to listen to, so let’s not waste any more time and get into it. I’ll say that right off the bat that the main attraction here is the production, and it delivers on that end. This album sounds GORGEOUS. Yes, it deserves all caps. Literally every single song here has some odd amount of detail and intricacy that not ...