Month: November 2016

Outside of the music, it’s a little quiet…. Dead Light (Interview)

Dead Light, makers of 2016's intricate electro/ambient/classical apogee, discuss their debut album....

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Ham – A Touch TOO Heston?

Magnetic Resonance Imaging to predict the salt content of Iberian ham ...

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Wyndham Lewis, Grayson Perry, David Baddiel and Masculinity

With power comes reponsibility, as Wyndham Lewis (and Spiderman) knew well. Art is power, not voyeurism....

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Meteorites Show Martian Drought Was Long-Lived

Mars is incredibly dry, and has been that way for millions of years....

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Loitered Lens: Fatherson

Turning sad faces into happy clappers - Fatherson pep up the Forum...

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We Name This Album Nonagram (Soweto Kinch, Roundhouse)

Entrancing sonic patterns and iconic imagery: Soweto Kinch's album launch at the Roundhouse...

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Crackling Fuzz and Feelgood Soul: Blues Pills and Kadaver at Koko

Pop, blues, groove. Camden's Koko samples all three with Kadaver and Blues Pills. ...

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Hard Core, Waffle Soles: Ice Nine Kills at Satan’s Hollow

An overdue UK debut for post-hardcore icons Ice Nine Kills at Satan's Hollow...

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Queasy Democrats – Make Your Wound a Womb

Only an honest appraisal of the situation will prove of benefit for Democrats yet to come...

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Mirroring the Zeitgeist with Doom, Death and Gothic Gloom

Convenience death metal, giant wicker cocks. If politics has gone weird, why shouldn't music? Review of Gatecreeper and Abysmal Grief albums...

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Life: Crawling Along for 3.2 Billion Years.

Life took hold on land 300 million years earlier than thought ...

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I ballroom danced in Norwich the other night: King Parrot (Interview)

Extreme metal never smelled so bad. King Parrot's Matthew Young on dreams, dancing and digestion....

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The Straight, White Canon, and How to Evade It (Interview with Collective Creativity)

Something Human curator Annie Jael Kwan talks to Collective Creativity members...

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Balloons, A Bob, Beth Orton (live at Kentish Town Forum)

Sparkly and statuesque, Beth Orton ushers a folktronic breeze through the Forum...

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Swedish Heavy Metal Monday Mashup

HammerFall and Civil War prove there's more sludgy grind to Sweden than Ikea's meatballs...

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Earworms: A Guide to Making Them, And Getting Rid of Them

Why some songs get stuck in your head ...

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Loitered Lens: The Lounge Kittens

Photos from a rousing 100 Club performance by The Lounge Kittens...

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Deplorable Lives Matter : Why Sneering at Proles Doesn’t Work Either

Angry alienated American whites are not a Trump invention, and patronising them won't make them go away...

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Somewhere to Go, and a Way to Get Back: Lynn Lu and Marija Milosevska

Artists Lynn Lu and Marija Milosevska discuss their current work at Krisis, Nottingham...

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Typical Metal Gig, But Better. (Battle of the Bays, Manchester)

Warm beer, loud metal. Manchester heats up for the Battle of the Bays...

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A Refined and Technical Stitch Up: Autopsy (Coroner)

Reanimating the corpse of a tech metal troupe who should have been HUGE...

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Peacocks Wandered Aimlessly: Pagan Science (The Well)

Cosmic folk to occult choir - bringing the rock ain't always easy, but where there's The Well, there's a way...

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Between the covers: I Could Be Happy (Nouvelle Vague)

Delightful subtlety and sumptuous variance - Nouvelle Vague...

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Staring into the Eye of the Soundscape (Riverside)

Forging on after the death of guitarist Piotr Grudziński, Riverside continue to intrigue...

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