Fuzz Club The Vacant Lots‘ intriguing mix of lo-fi ’80s synth sounds and doomed US street beats makes for a scuzzy but satisfying trawl through the downtown lights of New York’s underground. Having just read a book based around the NYC blackout of ’77, there was something quite fitting about listening to this short, sharp burst as if this was the sort of stuff kids would have been […]
Daily archives: 11/10/2022
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Constellation We were fortunate enough to have seen Esmerine a number of times many years ago and their chamber music / post-rock hybrid has a vitality of its own that translates well to the recorded format. I must confess to losing touch with them over the last little while, but here we are, five years on from 2017’s Mechanics Of Dominion with their third record in the trilogy […]
Rooster There was always something so cool and approachable about The Heads. As Bristol boys, you often saw them at shows there and quite regularly were served by Hugo Morgan over the counter of Replay (RIP even after all these years) and there was always something in the music that also held that approachability. The murderous rhythms and pummelling guitars might have been trying to fry your brain, […]
Tier.debut Any group with a name like I Work In Communications has to be worth some of your time and with the title of Kiss My Emoji Ring, you kind of know that this album isn’t going to be anything too heavy. In fact, the album contains a veritable cornucopia of lovely if irreverent electronic-based experiments that veer all over the map, allowing the three players plenty of […]