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Sony After having Steve Hillage play on their first (as well as several other) albums it does make one wonder why a collaboration between The Orb and David Gilmour didn’t happen a long time ago. The Orb had referenced Pink Floyd’s work enough including sampling Richard Wright’s keyboards at one point. Anyway, with a rather polite fanfare here are the fruits of their first labour together. And to […]

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The Orb featuring David Gilmour – Metallic Spheres

  • Album review
  • David Gilmour
  • Gary 93
  • The Orb
Published 27/10/2010
Sand Snowman - Nostalgia Ever After

Beta-Lactam Ring Records It might be thought that with a title like Nostalgia Ever After that Sand Snowman would be revivifying old-school folkies with a penchant for replicating the sound of chiming bells and hippydom sat cross-legged around lava lamps while the bong slowly bubbles over  paisley dreams worthy of both Keats and Beardsley; and to an extent, they might be. Or more to the point, he might, […]

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Sand Snowman – Nostalgia Ever After

  • Album review
  • Linus Tossio
  • Sand Snowman
Published 19/10/2010
Grinderman 2 (not Electric Boogaloo)

Mute Is it just me, or did it suddenly get kinda butch in here? I mean, the amount of testosterone coming out of the discerning listener’s speakers at the moment is really quite intimidating. What with Michael Gira‘s reactivated-and-all-male-again Swans trying to frighten you into an early grave, and Grinderman back to try to “charm” you into bed with a bottle of Jack and a handful of pills, […]

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Grinderman – Grinderman 2

  • Album review
  • Deuteronemu 90210
  • Grinderman
Published 05/10/2010
The Black Twig Pickers live at The Vortex

The Vortex Jazz Bar, London 27 September 2010 My view of this evening is tainted in about 200 different ways and as I haven’t drafted this review I don’t know what you’ll make of it but hang on a minute.  I have to explain that when I was younger and more energetic and had more brain power with which to be creative I did used to review music; […]

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The Black Twig Pickers (live at The Vortex)

  • live review
  • MF
  • The Black Twig Pickers
  • The Vortex
Published 05/10/2010
Lesbian - Stratospheria Cubensis

Important The second album-length outing from Lesbian finds the self-professed prog-doomsters reaching further into the upper reaches of the psychosphere on a craft constructed from some seriously heavy sounds and equally convoluted musicianship. Lesbian like to rock, they like to soar, and it’s quite possible they’re rising high over the stratosphere right now. Ten parts doom to three parts pomp, Stratospheria Cubensis is a logical component to all […]

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Lesbian – Stratospheria Cubensis

  • Album review
  • Lesbian
  • Linus Tossio
Published 04/10/2010
King Salami and the Cumberland Three - Fourteen Blazin Bangers!!

Dirty Water Over the years a lot of the music from the 50s and the 60s has been treated badly by many bands and artists. Squeezing every nerve out of great songs to make them fit in big companies’ Christmas parties, or in extravaganza shows in Las Vegas or other money filling shit-holes over the world. Some exceptions, though, but still too few to be counted, compared to […]

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King Salami and the Cumberland Three – Fourteen Blazin’ Bangers!!

1 Comment
  • Album review
  • King Salami and the Cumberland Three
  • Ronny Wærnes
Published 30/09/2010
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky

Young God Swans are back, and it’s an event so massive, so inconceivably vast and unimaginable, that the very fact of its occurrence drowns out even the loudest of their tracks. Michael Gira, of course, has never been away, continuously pumping out increasingly diverse and intimate music under the name Angels of Light, occasionally dipping his toes back into that pool of intensity on which Swans used to […]

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Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope …

1 Comment
  • Album review
  • Deuteronemu 90210
  • Swans
Published 26/09/2010
Boduf Songs - This Alone Above All Else In Spite Of Everything

Kranky “My hammer feels the urge to nail you to the ground / to smash one through your cheek.” Welcome back Boduf Songs, straight off the starting blocks with another ingeniously constructed threat of violence to the listener, with both the compulsion and responsibility for the act located outside of the detached perpetrator and the implication of an animist, ritual significance. It’s a classic Mat Sweet strategy, delivered […]

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Boduf Songs – This Alone Above All Else In Spite …

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  • Album review
  • Boduf Songs
  • Seth Cooke
Published 24/09/2010

The Garage, London 11 September 2010 Reanimated musical corpses aren’t much of a news story these days – after The Velvet Underground and Throbbing Gristle reformations, nothing comes as a surprise. I was shocked then to realise just how stunned I felt to hear that The Pop Group had got back together to allegedly “blow the dust off the old songs and pick up where we left off…” […]

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The Pop Group (live at The Garage)

  • Alan Holmes
  • live reviews
  • The Garage
  • The Pop Group
Published 22/09/2010

Versatile Given a penchant for vintage analogue synthesis, Goblin and motorik drumming, and having named themselves after a Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer game, it is not only appropriate, but almost de rigueur, that Zombie Zombie should find themselves tackling the oeuvre of a key progenitor of electronic cinema soundtracks. John Carpenter‘s themes and incidental music for the groundbreaking low-budget and high-thrills genre movies was pioneering, and hugely influential […]

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Zombie Zombie – Play John Carpenter

  • John Carpenter
  • Richard Fontenoy
  • single review
  • Zombie Zombie
Published 20/09/2010

Rooster When this album was released way back when, in 1996,  it was at a moment when electronic music of all sorts was riding high in the charts and otherwise, and stoner rock riffage as produced by a hirsute quartet from Bristol somehow became buried in a slew of trip-hop releases which were apparently satisfying the attention-spans of dope-smokers everywhere. Meanwhile, guitar rock seemed to have been hijacked […]

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The Heads – Relaxing With …

  • Album review
  • Linus Tossio
  • The Heads
Published 19/09/2010
K-Space - Infinity

Ad Hoc Every now and then you come across a product born of such radically alternative starting assumptions that it gets treated with near indifference by its potential audience, as though to even entertain the possibility of its existence could cause the tapestries of multiple musicotheologies to unravel. Infinity by K-Space is one such product: a CD that never plays the same music twice, intertwining ideas from disciplines […]

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K-Space – Infinity

1 Comment
  • Album review
  • Andy Wilson
  • K-Space
  • Seth Cooke
Published 16/09/2010

Ohm Resistance So. THE BLOOD OF HEROES. By THE BLOOD OF HEROES. Both times in caps-lock Billy Mays mode. None of this lower-case crap. That just wouldn’t suit THE BLOOD OF HEROES. I imagine by the time this review goes online it’ll be in bold as well. Which is as it should be. So who, or what, is or are THE BLOOD OF HEROES? What they are is […]

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The Blood of Heroes – The Blood of Heroes

  • Album review
  • Deuteronemu 90210
  • The Blood of Heroes
Published 04/09/2010
Toshimaru Nakamura - Egrets

Samadhi Sound There are few musical instruments that are as conceptually pleasing as the no-input mixing board. It is part of a rich tradition in experimental music in which peripheral hardware and audio equipment are repositioned as musical instruments in their own right (turntables, effects pedals and tape recorders could be seen as other examples). It is a controller of sound without anything in the way of a […]

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Toshimaru Nakamura – Egrets

  • Album review
  • Seth Cooke
  • Toshimaru Nakamura
Published 04/09/2010
The Hentchmen

Dirty Water “… kind of record that gets played at the coolest party …where the keg ends up in the pool…” says the press release… I’ve seen that film, but truthfully, never been to a party with a keg, let alone a swimming pool. I do remember a particular glue-crazed house-wrecker where sofas were incinerated, windows smashed and roof squatted like a prison riot, complete with slate thrower. […]

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The Hentchmen – The Hentchmen

  • Album review
  • Peter Bennett
  • The Hentchmen
Published 04/09/2010
Little Princess Orchestra – Oedipal Complexities

Not The Sixties Improvised music is sometimes more interesting in principle than practice, which so often involves accomplished musicians demonstrating consummate skill or immaculate taste (but rarely both at the same time). The Little Princess Orchestra happily have no truck with such nonsense, approaching communal music creation with the same primal inquisitiveness that Neanderthals must have possessed when they first discovered the joy in banging two stones together. […]

reviews

Little Princess Orchestra – Oedipal Complexities

  • Alan Holmes
  • Album review
  • Little Princess Orchestra
Published 04/09/2010
Puma – Half Nelson Courtship

Rune Grammofon What is Puma? This young Norwegian trio started out as a jazz trio, and they all studied at jazz conservatories. They also fit in numerous other projects, such as Jaga Jazzist, Bushman’s Revenge and Westerhus recently joined Nils Petter Molværs‘ new trio. As Intro winners (Norwegian award for young jazz muzicians) in 2006 they where also given oppportunities to go on tour with noise artist Lasse […]

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Puma – Half Nelson Courtship

  • Album review
  • Puma
  • Ronny Wærnes
Published 03/09/2010
Kevin Dunn – No Great Lost

Casa Nueva Strangely enough, the first thing that comes to mind when listening to Kevin Dunn is just how quintessentially English he sounds – Brian Eno, Wire, TV Personalities – that kind of English. What a surprise then to read the sleeve notes and find out that he actually comes from Atlanta, Georgia. Having known the name but somehow missed out on the music at the time, this […]

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Kevin Dunn – No Great Lost: Songs 1979-1985

  • Alan Holmes
  • Album review
  • Kevin Dunn
Published 03/09/2010

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