Acclaimed composers and producers Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury, known collectively as DROKK, make a long-awaited return with a striking remix of “Cruel Mother” by ØXN—originally released on ØXN’s 2023 album CYRM. This marks DROKK’s first release since their self-titled debut album in 2012. The package is complemented by Ben Frost’s haunting, elegiac rework. Barrow and Salisbury, whose work as DROKK began in 2011, have since focused on a range of scoring projects across film and television. Now, they revisit their DROKK identity with a new purpose: using music to support War Child UK. Watch / listen to Cruel Mother – The Remixes!Continue reading
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ALBUM REVIEW: Swans – The Beggar
According to the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus, change is the only constant in life. Everything that comes into being is a product of conflicting opposites and that process of becoming never ends. We never stop becoming. We are never at rest. The music of Swans (and by extension that of songwriter/bandleader Michael Gira) is the embodiment of an ever-changing being, existing through the continual tension of opposing forces; never at rest.