Metallica – Kill Em All / Ride The Lightning
It’s far harder to be a living legend than a dead one. Metallica’s run of four albums between 1983 and 1988 defined a new sub-genre – thrash – while reinvigorating [...]
Reviews
Various: Sharon Signs To Cherry Red – Independent Women 1979-1985
If the received wisdom about indie music is that it was (and is) as unwelcoming a place for women as the rest of the industry, this new 2CD set showcases the female artists [...]
Various: Another Splash Of Colour – New Psychedelia In Britain 1980-85
“Just because the blank generation blew it!” In among the sonic soup of the post-punk years, the vibrant British psychedelic scene barely registers in the [...]
Various – Sensible Record Labels Volume 2
Record Store Day has been getting a bit of bad press. Is it still all about indie shops and the spirit in which it began? Or has the focus shifted to the product, [...]
Ben Vince – The Purge
A saxophone darts and stabs around buried bass notes and a shimmering alarm – ‘Ankhering’, the first track on Ben Vince’s The Purge, presents the listener with a [...]
The Listening Post: albums round-up
Another year, another Shonen Knife album. The press notes say this is number 19. As such, we probably take them for granted, or only talk about them in the context of Western [...]
Woodpigeon – T R O U B L E
Clued-up observers of a certain vintage may just make a dash for Mark Andrew Hamilton’s sixth album in his Woodpigeon guise based purely on the presence of his fellow [...]
Various: Wayfaring Strangers – Cosmic American Music
Long before the idea of punk-inspired DIY, musicians of all hues who couldn’t secure a contract would sometimes book themselves into a studio, record a single or album [...]
Nada Surf – You Know Who You Are
By the time a band gets to its eighth album – and 20+ years down the line – the temptation to be glib or blasé about a new album is strong. New York’s [...]
The Listening Post: albums round-up
Stranger Things (MAME Records), the third full-length from Yuck, has them refinding their comfort zone after the line-up-change-induced stresses of Glow and Behold. Largely [...]
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