Category: Sound

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

Loitered Lens: Slydigs (with Nalle Colt)

Photos of Slydigs looking splendid with Nalle Colt of Vintage Trouble at the O2 Academy...

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Cross The Verge into the Summer Sun (Joana Serrat)

Several songs in search of a style, Cross the Verge is random jukebox gold...

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Loitered Lens: Mudhoney (at Primavera, Porto)

Mudhoney show no signs of drying up on the baked fields of Primavera, Porto. Photos...

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Renew Your Metalcore Memories (Dead Label)

Review of Dead Label's metalcore album Throne of Bones...

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Loitered Lens: The Hillbilly Moon Explosion

Photos of The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, Borderline, London, June 2016...

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Summoning Unnerving Prophecy at the Kentish Town Forum (Fields of the Nephilim)

The goth's goths - Fields of the Nephilim, enchant the congregation at the Kentish Town Forum...

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Flights of Fancy, Theories of Flight (Fates Warning)

At times technical, at others self-indulgent, Theories of Flight is indeed progressive metal. Review...

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Apres Release Avant-Hard (Swans and SikTh)

Unheralded gems from the underworld of avant-garde rock that you should have heard already...

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Loitered Lens: Roisin Murphy

Displaying live after Moloko, and a performance before New Order, photos of Roisin Murphy at the Royal Albert Hall...

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Loitered Lens: The BibleCode Sundays

London Irish folk rockers set the stage a-jigging at the O2 Indigo. Photos...

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Beyond the Big Four. Unheralded but Solid Thrash (Flotsam & Jestsam)

Will it float, or should we jettison it? Flotsam & Jetsam dish up the thrash....

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Who’s Filthy Now? Public Image Limited, O2 Indigo

Still furious, Public Image Limited withstand the test of time. Review...

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Loitered Lens: Pentatonix

Photos from the Pentatonix show at Brixton Academy...

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In My Solitude at Union Chapel (Branford Marsalis)

Innovative and improvisational, Branford Marsalis plays In My Solitude at London's Union Chapel...

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Apple Pie A Capella (Pentatonix)

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphe thought of Brixton Academy being filled to the rafters with tearful teenagers on the verge of hysteria is not out of the...

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A Most Dramatic of Comas: The Theater Equation (Ayreon)

Ayreon's staging of The Human Equation is anything but comatose...

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Jazz Powerhouse? It’s all (kinda) in the name (Jasmine Power)

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”S/dropcapomething old, something new, something borrowed, something blue… or so the saying goes. I realise this seems somewhat out of...

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Hillbilly Moon Explosion at The Borderline

Rocking tunes with sass and soul, but needs to be turned up. ...

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Loitered Lens: Shame

Snarling punk energy and teenage kicks. Photos of Shame, live at the Garage...

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

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

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Who’s Afraid of Tonality? (Max Richter, Sleep @ Barbican)

As much gig as concert, The Barbican turns to Max Richter for crowd-pulling contemporary performance. Review...

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Manami Mogg’s Moggy Metal Mix 2 (Wo Fat, Interment, Death Angel, Regret)

With the suburban bliss of both Primary and Secondary Feeders shattered by the horticulturalists next-door, Manami Mogg reviews the month's metal releases...

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Loitered Lens: Eagulls

Photos of Eagulls at Islington Assembly Hall, May 2016...

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

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

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Make Better Music 82: Monetizing Music (Part Two)

Working musician Simon Laffy ponders the recurring problem of making music pay...

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Musicians Wanted: Singer. What Lies Beneath (Mike Kershaw)

Heading up a supergroup of sorts, prog rock keyboardist Mike Kershaw releases What Lies Beneath. Review...

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Like circuit bending, but with more control: Interview (Weightausend)

Weightausend discusses hijacking obsolete digital sound modules, hash-induced panic attacks, and Doctor Who ...

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Notable for its Collaborators (Faulkner)

Interview with Dimitri Farougias from US Pop band Faulkner. ...

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Loitered Lens: The Fall

Photos from The Fall playing live at The Garage, Islington...

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An Ominous and Unsettling Ambience: #1 (Daghraven)

Intricately constructed and spanning the gap between melancholy and tragedy, Daghraven makes for brooding archeological listening...

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