Drøne – A Perfect Blind
Drøne, as a name, is a flood of misdirection. It implies both vaguely Scandinavian origins and a genre label – neither of which is accurate. Duality and sleight of hand [...]
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Anjou – Epithymía
It’s hard not to listen to Anjou’s new album without feeling keenly aware of the past I bring to it. In the late nineties when post-rock appeared to be the new rising [...]
Ulver – The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Ulver’s eclecticism has seen the band swap identities on a regular basis, rarely lasting more than a couple of releases without delving into the potential offered by other [...]
Luca Forcucci – The Waste Land
An intriguing download and limited edition cassette release from a new Portuguese label Crónica, documenting the work of researcher and artist Luca Forcucci. Forcucci’s [...]
Zu – Jhator
Zu exists along the intersections where an open embrace of the potential of sound dissolves all genre boundaries. Having previously delivered some tastily metallic riffage, [...]
PVT – New Spirit
The PVT trio – brothers Richard and Laurence Pike with friend Dave Miller – re-emerge after a quiet few years since 2012’s Homosapien album. Their sound has moved [...]
Sult / Lasse Marhaug – Harpoon
This collaboration between Lasse Marhaug – one of the far north’s most consistently excellent exponents of extreme music – and improvisational duo Sult sees both [...]
Much Too Much: the Curse of the Double Album
The history of recorded music has been one of continuous expansion of the capacity of the medium. The world’s first million-selling record, ‘Vesti La Giubba’ as sung by [...]
Shirley Collins Lodestar – Bristol Colston Hall
Folk’s gentile stereotype – witness Viz’s old cartoon The Folkie – belies the intensity it can muster in the hands of skilled practitioners. Arriving at Colston Hall, [...]
Crystal Fairy – S/T
Six months ago I felt sorely let down by Melvins’ Basses Loaded album, but reassured that a band this creatively fertile wouldn’t take long to bounce back with [...]
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