★Swallowing Helmets

Milk magic, cheesy rhythms, preset delirium. Magia Láctea departs from a simple setup: a Solton arranger keyboard, used not for accompaniment but as a central sequencer. Its built-in presets - Latin, Italo, and other cheesy standardised patterns - form the starting point. Two long-form improvisations unfold from this set-up. The Solton acts as both driver and instigator, pushing and entangling the Future Retro Vectra and BARP 2600 into a dense, slightly deranged ecosystem of dairy delirium. Side…

First LP from Donna Candy, the bass-vocal-drums trio trawled from the sub genres of experimental rock and busy pushing to the front of heavy music. Nu metal bass riffs, switch-pitched fuzz vocals and big, splashy drums layer over unsettling narratives and extreme loops to bring a bit of the pit to the dancefloor. Begun as an off the cuff party band with the idea of finding a live sound that would fit between 4am trance sets, the trio soon found themselves addicted to the euphoric sludge they cre…