Latest

Album Review: Ron S Peno and the Superstitions release the stupendous ‘Do The Understanding’, and announce launch gigs
Album Review: Descendents – 9th & Walnut
New Music: Jeff Mills & Zanza 21 EP – When The Time Is Right
Album review: Neil Cowley – ‘Hall Of Mirrors (Reflected)’: ambient piano is tripped further into leftfield on this excellent remixes set
News: It’s the collab you need to hear – Tycho x Benjamin Gibbard on new single ‘Only Love’
News: Drowning Pool Debut To Be Released On Vinyl For The First Time
Album review: Merpire’s debut album ‘Simulation Ride’ is beautifully crafted rock serving to soothe the lost and lonely
Album Review: Infinity Broke swagger out on to the streets with ‘Your Dream My Jail’: a brilliant and visceral coating of indulgent excess and cathartic chaos – plus tour news.
Album Review: Sydney’s Darren Cross (Gerling) creates a little ‘DISTORDER’: a splendid electronic fugue for our dystopian times
EP: Jhariah releases the evocative and dynamic genre-defying ‘A Beginners Guide To Faking Your Own Death’
Say Psych: Video Premiere: Sun Atoms – Don’t Take Me To Your Leader
Premiere: Aphra unveils an effervescent and buoyant track ‘Tide In Tide Out’ in advance of EP ‘Sticky Toffee Pudding’
Track: Drott – The Marauders
Blu-ray Review: Bringing Up Baby
Track: The Wildhearts – Sort Your F… S… Out
See: Brisbane’s Fingerless release an all consuming video for the psychedelic and brilliant track ‘Leaf of Stone’
Track: Deerhoof exhibit forthcoming album with ‘Department of Corrections’
Say Psych: Live Review: Déjà Vega & Pray for Mojo @ Yes Basement, Manchester 21.07.2021
PREMIERE: Karaboudjan shares the powerful ‘Falling Forwards’, preps debut EP for September
PREMIERE: Moira Smiley shares captivating collaborative performance video of ‘Silverlake’

ALBUM REVIEW: Aaron Cupples – ‘Island Of The Hungry Ghosts’ original soundtrack: a sonic film in itself

Chris Sawle January 25, 2021

See: Holm – ‘Our Days And Years’: Zurich post-rockers set out on a track-a-month journey to their new album

Chris Sawle May 21, 2021

3FDD8C8E-5803-441C-AE05-152D103F1035

Jim F August 18, 2020

No Comment

Album Review: Ron S Peno and the Superstitions release the stupendous ‘Do The Understanding’, and announce launch gigs

Arun Kendall July 26, 2021

The Breakdown ‘Do The Understanding’ is a beautiful and mesmerising album, filled with a heart-rending purity of expression and an acerbic, gritty edge. It is an affirmation of the power and clarity of indie rock and feels like a warm and natural development from Peno’s past. Indelible melodies distinctive vocals and a songwriting craft combine …

Music News Track / Video

News: It’s the collab you need to hear – Tycho x Benjamin Gibbard on new single ‘Only Love’

Tania Ogier July 25, 2021

Grammy Award-nominated artists Tycho and Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service) have released a landmark, anthemic new collaboration Only Love, available now via Mom + Pop Music/Ninja Tune. The track powerfully and meticulously fuses Tycho’s transcendent production and signature arrangements with Gibbard’s cathartic, deeply humanist lyricism. This is the first major electronic …

Music News

News: Drowning Pool Debut To Be Released On Vinyl For The First Time

Craig Young July 24, 2021

Craft Recordings celebrates the 20th anniversary of Drowning Pool’s best-selling debut, Sinner, with the album’s first-ever vinyl release. Set for release on September 17, 2021, the nu-metal classic features such favourites as “Tear Away,” “Sinner,” and the band’s platinum-selling signature hit “Bodies.” “Sinner is literally perfect. I remember hearing and seeing it all come together,” says Drowning Pool frontman Jasen Moreno. “We shared the …

8.7 Album Reviews Backseat Downunder Music News

Album Review: Infinity Broke swagger out on to the streets with ‘Your Dream My Jail’: a brilliant and visceral coating of indulgent excess and cathartic chaos – plus tour news.

Arun Kendall July 24, 2021

The Breakdown ‘Your Dream My Jail’ is an excoriating, driven, thunderous slice of post-punk cake that is angular, studded and visceral. Guitars wail and caterwaul, drums crash like waves on an exposed coast and singer Jamie Hutchings (formerly of nineties indie legends Bluebottle Kiss) has vocal chords that are barbed-wire wrapped velvet – whooping, sweeping, …

8.0 Album Reviews Music News

EP: Jhariah releases the evocative and dynamic genre-defying ‘A Beginners Guide To Faking Your Own Death’

Nicolle Maroulis July 23, 2021

The Breakdown At just 20 years old, Bronx based multi-instrumentalist Jhariah has created something truly unique in his newest EP ‘A Beginner’s Guide To Faking Your Own Death’ that takes the listener on a sonic roller coaster ride. Independent – 8.0 Every so often I find myself bored with my current rotation of music and …

Say Psych: Premiere: Sunflowers – A Spasmatic Milkshake

SEE: Floodlights – ‘Matter Of Time’: garagey Melbourne bite

Say Psych: Live in San Francisco by Feral Ohms

NEWS: The Peacers return with March set for Drag City; see ‘Irish Suit’

Film Review: Alice

Say Psych: Album Review: Night Beats – Outlaw R&B