Category: Sound

Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Soweto Kinch

We Name This Album Nonagram (Soweto Kinch, Roundhouse)

12/11/2016

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

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Blues Pills

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

12/11/2016

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

11/11/2016

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

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Mirroring the Zeitgeist with Doom, Death and Gothic Gloom

10/11/2016

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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King Parrot

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

09/11/2016

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

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Beth Orton

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

07/11/2016

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

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Swedish Heavy Metal Monday Mashup

07/11/2016

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

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Loitered Lens: The Lounge Kittens

06/11/2016

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

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

03/11/2016

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)

03/11/2016

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

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The Well, Pagan Science

Peacocks Wandered Aimlessly: Pagan Science (The Well)

02/11/2016

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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Nouvelle Vague

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

01/11/2016

Delightful subtlety and sumptuous variance - Nouvelle Vague...

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riverside, Eye of the Soundscape

Staring into the Eye of the Soundscape (Riverside)

01/11/2016

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

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Loitered Lens: Augustines

30/10/2016

Photos from Augustines last ever London gig at the Kentish Town Forum, October 2016...

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kargeras

Kargeras Returns From The Land of the Almost Ignored (Root)

28/10/2016

Czech dark metal act Root are a band you haven’t heard of, but should have...

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Red Fang, David Sullivan

We got to drive a car and smash into things. (Red Fang, Interview)

27/10/2016

Red Fang’s guitarist, David Sullivan, insists it's not ALL debauched Valhalla hedonism...

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We Are Augustines for Another Few Weeks (Augustines at the Forum)

25/10/2016

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt was some time during 2011 when I first experienced Augustines. A brief affair; I was alone, miles from home and looking for a...

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akercocke

Blackened Death, Beaten Skins: Akercocke at Manchester Academy

24/10/2016

Untramelled aggression, windmill headbanging, expensive drinks. A Sunday night with Akercocke...

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Paisley Prints and Polyrhythms: Goat (Live at The Coronet)

23/10/2016

Witchdoctors, Crusaders, Curses. Goat bring the hudu to the Coronet...

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Swans

Mastery in Sound: Swans (Live at Islington Assembly)

22/10/2016

A resounding farewell to a visceral lineup, Swans configure an unparalleled sonic onslaught...

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Le Spectre

Snare Drum Love: Interview (Le Spectre)

21/10/2016

Le Spectre's Yann Levasseur talks about simply trying to be creative and dark ...

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Music For the Missus? The Pale (William Control)

19/10/2016

Tortured delvings into the 80s synthpop palette for the first of a four EP collection...

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Fires within fires

Fires Within Fires (Neurosis)

18/10/2016

A perfect if less mindblowing record from post-rock doomfathers Neurosis...

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The Birthday Massacre

The Birthday Massacre (live at the Garage, Islington)

17/10/2016

Oozing hot goth love to the faithful: The Birthday Massacre lived up to their name and killed it...

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The Mission

Loitered Lens: The Mission

17/10/2016

And when there's darkness all around, you shine bright.... Photos of The Mission live in London...

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Tower of Strength: The Mission live at Shepherd’s Bush

15/10/2016

Jingle Jangle Scarecrows. Twelve Strings of Torment and Thunder...

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Grinds ‘n’ Grudges: Only Ghosts (Red Fang)

13/10/2016

Grunge, grind, riffs, aggression and beautifully stupid videos. Red Fang return....

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Loitered Lens: Sturla Atlas

12/10/2016

More than wannabe posturing, Sturla Atlas impressed with heartfelt lyrics at the Jazz Cafe...

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Duski

Into The Lesser-Charted Waters of Jazz/Prog/Ambient: Duski

11/10/2016

Prog rock, jazz and ambient sounscapes in an impressive debut album...

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The Violent Sleep of Reason

The Violent Sleep of Reason (Meshuggah)

09/10/2016

Relentlessly organic, Meshuggah plough new musical folds with their eighth album...

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