Welcome to Futurism Restated, by Philip Sherburne.

A newsletter about new music. Most of it electronic. Or “experimental,” whatever that means. But not always! Anyway, if you know my work, you probably know what kind of music you’re going to get here.

I’ve been writing about music for longer than I care to admit. Since 2014, I’ve been a contributing editor at Pitchfork, though I’ve been writing there since 2005. (In fact, in 2022 I filed my 500th review for them.) Before that, I was writing for SPIN, Resident Advisor, The Wire, and SF Weekly. Even, very occasionally, actually reputable joints like the New York Times. I’m also a sometime DJ and a (very) lapsed electronic musician. From 2018 until 2024 I was the co-host, with Lapsus Records’ Albert Salinas, of Lapsus Radio, a weekly show on Spain’s national public Radio 3 and Mixcloud.

Albert and I currently co-run Balmat, an ambient-adjacent record label that has put out music from Patricia Wolf, µ-Ziq, and more.

I’ve worn a lot of hats, so with Futurism Restated, I’m trying to keep things simple: I write about the new releases (and sometimes not-so-new releases) that I haven’t gotten to write about elsewhere, but that I think you should absolutely listen to, and I interview the artists behind them.

Subscribe for free to get full access to the newsletter and the past month’s worth of archives. Paying subscribers get exclusive playlists for chilling and clubbing (now available on Deezer as well as Apple Music and Spotify); Eavesdropping, a new series of mixes by me; the ongoing Mixes Digest series; and full access to the archives, including interviews with Call Super, Avalon Emerson, Nick León, William Tyler, FaltyDL, and more.