Upset The Rhythm Upset The Rythm‘s radar is always sharp and can be relied on to serve up a healthy antidote to the burger’n’fries musical factory that clogs up our cultural arteries. Companioning the creative, often at the expense of commercialism they go, scouting fresh talent, scouring the musical roadside […]
Monthly archives: October 2021
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Discus Martin Archer is once again proving himself one of the hardest-working people in music with two very different collaborations in quick succession. It seems that every other release that comes from Discus involves his playing, but there is always an extraordinary diversity in styles and sounds. The latest albums […]
Rage Peace Ex-Prince Rama frontwoman Taraka Larson returns with her debut solo album, trading in digital exotica for freakout psych garage jams to excellent effect. Prince Rama, also sometimes known as Prince Rama Of Ayodhya, encapsulate a certain particularly far-out strain of late 2000s / early 2010s psychedelia. Darlings of […]
Disciples / R.A.T.S. It’s been a long time since Pale Saints‘ Ian Masters and His Name Is Alive’s Warren Defever worked together as ESP Summer on their country-tinged 1995 self-titled release, so it came as a pleasing surprise when the project was mysteriously resurrected last year – even more so […]
One Little Independent With their second album, AVAWAVES, the duo of Aisling Brouwer and Anna Phoebe, found themselves stranded far from one another during the enforced partition of lockdown, but still with a burning desire to collaborate on new music. The synchronicity of their ideas and sounds is in no […]
FatCat Following numerous delays, the twenty-fourth — and last ever — issue in FatCat’s long-running and much-loved Split 12” series finally arrives. As with previous releases, the notion was to pit different sounds and styles against one another in an attempt to draw out links and similarities, or merely introducing […]
Nomark Warning: this review will be extremely biased as I think Amon Tobin is dope as hell. Coming back from my dad’s during my younger years entailed many long bus trips on the 76 towards Waterloo station. To help pass the time, Dad would lend me his old iPod, and […]
Crammed Discs Brussels in the early ’80s must have been a really cool place to be, with Marc Hollander starting up Crammed Discs just as Tuxedomoon arrive, spreading their stateside art rock sensibilities across the city. Lurking in a bar in the centre was Benjamin Lew, tinkering with an MS-10 […]
Rednetic The eleven tracks spread across the latest release from 4T Thieves apparently owe something to Boards Of Canada; but having never listened to that act, I can only say that the woozy soundscapes and lethargic trip hop beats captured here have a real effect on the listener, their odd […]
Lumberton Trading Company After Siôn Orgon’s brilliant Black Object comes this freshly minted dozen. Dust is a mini LP whose first track takes no prisoners, births this baby in muscled metal, words dark’n’glistening, then slamming a singular technoid, a ballsy brilliance that surrounds itself in a jaded tinsel epitaph.
Fallen Moon John Sellekaers‘ latest Feral Cities album is a series of drone-based soundscapes that fit well with the brooding but slightly abstracted cover image. There is a sense of solitude that runs through Arcs And Layers, but the sort of solitude that is bracing and life-affirming. The jittery opening […]
Here we are then, a big ole' retrospective of Faust's... if not golden era, then certainly their best-known stuff. "Canonical" krautrock. And of course krautrock is a silly term at its silliest in reference to Faust -- the German band featuring least Germans, singing in French and English and German
The latest video linked to Gagarin‘s epic Great North Wood album, released on Geo Records in 2020, of arboreal wonder and wanderings comes from USRNM, AKA Stuart Bowditch. The video, shot by Stuart, takes the viewer on a glide on a path through the trees as the music unwinds in pumping dancefloor-friendly […]
Upset The Rhythm Here’s another tasty treat from those excellent Upset The Rhythm peeps. Dark World is a twenty-two track exposé of Normil Hawaiians’ early verve, showcasing a formative pool of edgy punk / post-new wave that would finally mutate / mature into the arty haemorrhage that was their debut […]
Thrill Jockey The bringing together of Montreal’s Big|Brave and Portland’s The Body has produced a gratifying collision culminating in a series of tales taking in slow, ancient folk and creeping, hypnotic post-metal in equal measure, laying them bare and then piling noise and heartache into the mix to provide an […]
Relapse In a world ridden with plague, what could be more timely than black metal? And in a world facing impending climate catastrophe, what could be more timely that deep ecology? And in a world regulated by time, what could be more timely than timelessness? Fortunately, there’s a band who […]