Various: Ork Records – New York New York
Let’s not expend too much energy arguing about who invented punk rock but Terry Ork, a sometime associate of the Warhol set, spent the mid 1970s watching and waiting [...]
Reviews
Yael Naim – Older
Those of us who swooned to Yael Naim‘s 2008 breakthrough Yael Naim and David Donatien and then drifted away, distracted by a million and one other clamourers for our [...]
Norman Westberg – 13
On this three track release, Norman Westberg’s work harks back to his late-90s contributions to Swans’ final (and arguably best) album Soundtracks for the Blind, and to [...]
Marc Bolan and T. Rex – Unchained: Home Recordings and Studio Outtakes
Wham, glam, thank you, ma’am. One for the Marc Bolan collector, sure, but not necessarily the completist. There’s little room for doubting the Edsel [...]
Kurt Cobain – Montage Of Heck: The Home Recordings
Much of the success of the compact disc following its launch in 1982 came from the ability of record labels to market the ‘upgraded’ format to consumers who already had [...]
The Listening Post: albums round-up
In what seems a particularly fruitful period for indie pop, Chorusgirl high step their way to the front of the stage with a confident, self-titled debut (Fortuna POP!, 13th [...]
Adam Golebiewski – Pool North
Improvisational records depend, for their effect, on your personal enjoyment of sound as opposed to song. If the easy comfort of verse-chorus-verse laid over a backing rhythm [...]
The Spook School – Try To Be Hopeful
Second album from Edinburgh’s ‘queer-trans-punk’ agitators is a thrill both sensory and cerebral: big tunes, big ideas. A tender and compassionate document [...]
Various: All About The Girls – Lost Girl Group Gems Of The 1960s
When you see author, St.Etienne member – and fan of the Non-League dog – Bob Stanley’s name in the credits of a new compilation you can rely on two things: [...]
CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye
Stick “Lauren Mayberry” into Google and hit the space key. The next word you see is “height.” Well there you fucking go. And the rest of [...]
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