SILVERWINGKILLER – GUNMAN CORNER
SILVERWINGKILLER are a Manchester-via-Shanghai electronic duo: drummer James Baca and singer Ni Yushan. “GUNMAN CORNER” is their second single of 2026, following April’s “SHANG FILM”, and it piles live breakbeats, industrial noise and drum and bass into a chaotic electro track built on analog arpeggiators and distorted bass. The duo have described their goal as making “the kind of music you would buy from the dark web”, and this one delivers on that pitch.
The vocals are the thing that sets them apart. Ni moves between English, Mandarin and Shanghainese within the same track, and the effect is genuinely stateless: the language-switching isn’t a gimmick layered on top, it’s structural to how the songs work. Add Baca’s live drumming underneath the electronics and you get club music with a physicality most laptop acts can’t reach. I’d file this next to the more unhinged end of the UK electronic underground, and I mean that as a compliment.
They’re currently playing a run of UK dates, including festival slots at Paint By Numbers in Bristol, East London Block Party and End of the Road. Worth catching live, I suspect, given how much of this depends on real drums hitting real skins.
