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HEVY Festival

When your guitar feedback section is so long that your guitarist has time to have a crafty check of his iPhone, maybe it's time to just get on with the song already. HEVY Festival is HUGE. This...

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Wave Gotik Treffen [Festival Review (part 1)]

How do you review an event that takes place over four days in multiple venues, includes numerous styles of dark music and if done properly takes the rest of the month or more to recover from? To...

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The Reasoning: Interview

Editor's Note. Writer Tim Hall has covered a few acts for Trebuchet that can be broadly described as progressive rock. It's a label not all bands seem willing to accept, since it's...

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Wave Gotik Treffen [Preview]

Alexei Monroe looks ahead to Europe's annual descent into darkness at Leipzig's Wave Gotik Treffen…. Leipzig's annual Wave Gotik Treffen a.k.a WGT is one of Europe's most...

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Rival Sons: Jay Buchanan Interview

Trebuchet interviews Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan discussing music life and the million of chances in between....

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Anomie Belle: Interview

Scheduled for release on April 2nd, Yppah's Eighty One is an album of glossy synth texture and crunching gravel percussion. Reflecting Yppah's move to southern California to be closer to the...

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Ronin: Interview

Interview with OVO drummer Bruno Dorella about with dark folk group Ronin...

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Eyvind Kang: The Narrow Garden

The fine folded pressures of the lidless eye. Renowned through his collaborations with John Zorn, Mike Patton, and Trey Spruance, Eyvind Kang has become the go-to violin guy for a certain strain of...

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Living Room Songs (Olafur Arnalds)

One song each day for a week. Written, recorded and performed live online in October 2011 Olafur Arnalds. ...

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Hellblinki: These Bubbles Come From Ants

Somwhere in the shadowy forest behind the broken-down big-top, something is stirring… a six-legged beast, shuffling and grunting toward the faded carnival lights… it reaches the edge of...

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I was always closer to rock´n roll (Nils Frahm)

Interview with Nils Frahm 2011...

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I Hate the Concept of Revolution. I Spit On It: Trey Spruance

Interview with Trey Spruance of Secret Chiefs 3, Faith No More, and Mr Bungle Fame on music and spirituality....

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Paul Catten – Themes and Variations for Strings and Electronics

Paul Catten - Themes and Variations for Strings and Electronics...

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Jono McCleery – There Is

Jono McCleery delivers a classic album in There Is. SBTRKT, Jamie Woon, hell, even Radiohead. The fan of beguiling male vocals set against beats is suddenly well-catered for. Jono McCleery's...

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Sabi/Kiyo – 71:36

Sabi and Kiyo add yet more megabytes to the IDM glut. Force Intel is a sublabel of Mille Plateaux, the latter's management choosing to found a new imprint as a release platform for the music they...

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Raffertie – Visual Acuity EP

Raffertie’s compositional ambitions happen on a grand scale – at times his basslines have at the warping boom of pedal-timpany; at other times they use pitch-bend to underpin the melodies...

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The Black Dahlia Murder – Ritual

For their fifth studio album, Detroit heavy weights The Black Dahlia Murder have remained true to what they do best. Namely blasting out high energy, heavy and powerful melodic death metal. The album...

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King Creosote and Jon Hopkins – Union Chapel

Acoustic unions in an electric chapel, I beheld the evolution of folk music and it was divine. Rocking it was not. Communion. A series of flashbacks occurred as I walked down an aisle of the Highbury...

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Rival Consoles – Kid Velo

Rival Consoles' Kid Velo has the beats and builds of anthemic house, but it's more Paul Hardcastle than Paul Oakenfold. Now that GaGa has got her hands on sidechain compression and synth...

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Ukkonen – Erriapo (EP)

Erriapo's icy but intimate techno-chillout is understated, elegant, but never simple. Unhurried development: the tightrope walk of the electronic musician's art. How many bars can you...

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Claire Nicolson – The Wheelbarrow

In the hip but friendly atmosphere of Camden’s Wheelbarrow, UK singer/songwriter Claire Nicolson emerges with a chunky acoustic guitar strapped to her frame. She’s effortlessly confident...

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Pleq – Ballet Mechanic

Echoes, textures and the subtle hint of melody; the ambient music formula is rarely relevant. With 'Ballet Mechanic' Pleq wins against the odds. Contemporary ambient music has no place in a...

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Aleph – Haunt For Little Blind Fish

Armed with a bag of glitch, can Aleph's four-track EP convince us of this Siberian instrumentalist's intent? What happens when musicians break free of the limitations of physical instruments...

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Fire Folkers: Van Susans

Sofia Ilyas spoke to Van Susan, a popcore rock band fast on the rise and about to make some noise in your direction, about now and the shiny future.  Trebuchet: Can you tell me about the band,...

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Obscura – Omnivium

If Earth were to be invaded by an alien race the scene could be imagined as smaller bombers strafing the surface being coordinated from a mother ship.  Much like, say, the US Air Force or Navy...

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Daedelus – Bespoke

An album full of bespoke pieces as layered as his choice of fashion, does Daedelus retain full control of his creation or does he challenge our ears with a note too far? After a splurge of LP...

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Connan Mockasin – Forever Dolphin Love

When the going gets weird… Once or twice in the space of an aeon, something or someone enters the musical multiverse that is so completely bizarre that you’re not sure whether it’s...

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Syn Ze Sase Tri – Intre Doua Lumi

Dark Symphonies from the Black Metal heart of Romania. Roughly translated the band’s name means,“I’m with triple 6”. After some brief thought and armed with the knowledge that...

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Small is Beautiful

Small is Beautiful XXVII and Gyunel Rustamova in Cork Street galleries, Dry the River and Clare Maguire at The Social. 14th December One small step for artists but a giant leap for free arts...

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Canaan – Contro.Luce

You are brought into a world. A world that is surrounded in shadow and echoing with primal noise. Something is calling you from a spiritual cave, the voices echo and cut. Canaan are summoning you....

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