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Vinyl Rarities, No Cratedigging. Scandi Gems on Round Two Records

04/06/2016

Firebeats Inc., Undertakers' Circus and Kare and the Cavemen signal an untapped wealth of Norwegian rock...

Unwarmed. How The Last Frontier of Global Warming Stays Frosty

31/05/2016

Exploring the cold, sluggish band of deep ocean that resists the global meltdown...

Stylotone luxury vinyl edition of Khartoum 620

Soundtracking the Great Game: (Stylotone Vinyl Reissue of Khartoum)

28/05/2016

Frank Cordell's epic soundtrack receives a lavish vinyl reissue...

Grainy nihilist post-industrial ain’t what it was (Sonny Lanegan)

23/04/2016

Boasting some solid grooves, Sonny Lanegan's industrial rock is immersive, if not hugely original...

All Heroes Must Fall. Farewell to a Space Oddity (David Bowie)

12/01/2016

Bowie drew from the symbols and semiotics of myth, contemporising archetypes which have been crucial to humanity's concept of itself since time unrecorded....

One Man Subculture. Alva Bernadine talks Forniphilia [NSFW]

09/11/2015

Bringing a touch of Surrealism to the art of Fetish, photographer Alva Bernadine talks to Trebuchet...

Can We Talk About JOHN? (DV8 Physical Theatre)

21/10/2015

Provocative, poignant and unashamedly full-frontal, DV8's John is a rough diamond of confrontational theatre...

A muscular form of ambient: Near Dark (Gideon Wolf)

01/10/2015

Emotional complexity and implied narrative - Gideon Wolf's ambient electronica has heart...

Cold Soup?! Get Stuffed! It’s Vertical Salad. Gazpacho

02/08/2015

Gazpacho is, potentially, a cornerstone of the vegetable juice purge diet, with the rare novelty of actually being delicious....

The Homely Path through Chaotic Woods (Nostos)

31/07/2015

A collection of musical pieces which disturb, wrongfoot, disorient and occasionally attack the listener, whilst still being peppered with the ghost of expected song structures ...

Crank Thy Humbuckers – Ratatat Release Magnifique

17/07/2015

Mahoosive dynamics, the customary duelling guitar chops, and surf drums pulling everything together. Air guitar and dancefloor screwface, in one handy pack. Cribbens!...

Rills, fills and dirty drum machines. Unravel (Bendejo)

05/07/2015

Owes as much to the mechanics of dub as to the sequencing of techno, with dub's technique of using a looped passage to overwrite the 4/4 time structure driving the low-end beats....

Cleaning ladies also experience the sublime (Aine O’Dwyer)

16/06/2015

Where Scarlatti or Bach strove to elevate the consciousness with uplifting symmetrical counterpoint, O'Dwyer reaches into a slightly different church music tradition...

Death in the Afternoon : Political Slaughter in Spain

28/05/2015

Personal charisma, rockstar presentation and the common touch may indeed be a successful formula for political power....

Parting the Veil of Sylvanian Fantasy [Crystal Bright & The Silver Hands]

17/05/2015

Bright's voice, if a touch brittle, is faultless in pitch, soaring in keening arabesques through what must (surely) be the entire range of anguish...

Big bangs, pulsars, black holes and supernovas [Fujako]

16/04/2015

Off-key gamelan clangs, swarming keyboards and pitch-slowed kickdrums hammer that recurring distopian atmosphere home...

Integration and interrelation between the orchestral and the electronic [Michael Price]

12/03/2015

As an exercise in demonstrating the possibilities of digital/orchestral enmeshment, Entanglement is at the top table. ...

Composing With Particle Interactions. How Does the Invisible Sound?

04/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere is a lot going on in Q07, particularly for a record which qualifies wholeheartedly as ambient noodling. Thanks to the obliging...

High Definition sonic adventures: Joe Snape in 24-Bit

25/02/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”N/dropcapaysayers love to make sweeping judgements about 24-bit sound reproduction. The physical capabilties of the human ear provide a...

Manns’ slightly plain voice is flawless, but uninspired.

19/02/2015

There are some moderately engaging, essentially pleasant, songs on the album. Actually, they all are....

Fogh Depot [Album]

12/02/2015

This is brooding jazz with an electronic twist or, if you prefer, brooding electronica with a jazz twist....

Don’t Slap Her, She’s Pretty!

15/01/2015

Girls who want to avoid being clobbered should aim to be tall, blonde and pretty. Does the 'Slap Her!' video send out the wrong message? ...

Music : Did We Even Like it Anyway?

10/01/2015

Why is the music industry failing? Perhaps it’s just that most folk never really liked it much anyway....

Scott Laudati : Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair [Poetry]

11/12/2014

Between the suburbs and the city, and all that they stand for in Laudati's oeuvre, there is the ever-present fear not of age itself, but of fading away rather than burning out...

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Trick or Treat! A Celebration of Samhain

30/10/2014

It is the festival of Samhain from whence our contemporary experience of Hallowe'en stems...

Uneri : Fluvial Benevolence of Womanity

22/10/2014

Art's ever-disputed purpose chokes, regurgitates and, eventually, masticates the fabric of society to emulsified pap, thus palatable to the prolish hordes....

Monomyth : Further

20/09/2014

Gusty keyboard swells, reel-like lead guitar figures and crescendo-borne power riffs building seemingly unstoppable momentum until they, well, stop....

Trioscapes : Digital Dream Sequence

05/08/2014

Throbs with a primal, sweaty and utterly invigorating energy that transcends jazz, funk, metal or rock...

This is Not a Book About Gavin Turk

07/07/2014

By expounding upon Turk's themes, recurrences and symbolic obsessions, a profile develops which is, enchantingly, acres more telling than a full-frontal biographic assault...