ALBUM REVIEW: ARLO PARKS ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’
…far from channelling the swirling rivers of turbulent backgrounds for inspiration, as many do, somehow she has created energy, power, message and depth out of still waters…
Album Review: The Notwist – Vertigo Days
I’ve been quiet on this thing lately, and reviewing The Notwist’s new record Vertigo Days was as close to a perfect step back into the game as I could have asked for. It’s the band’s first album in 6 busy years…and when they say busy they mean really busy- from scoring films to running a …
ALBUM REVIEW: Bill Jr. Jr. – Homebody
A first suprise for 2021 from a Vancouver-based indie-folk-rock project
Album Review: Tommy Guerrero – ‘Sunshine Radio’
Tommy Guerrero’s ‘Sunshine Radio’ is the latest release in his pretty consistent turnover of albums, with the skateboarding legend turned musician averaging at least an LP every three years since 1997’s ‘Loose Groove And Bastard Blues’, as well as slotting in other projects (check out last year’s ace Los Days). On a similar path to …
ALBUM REVIEW: Bolomite Jr. – ‘Cold Feet’: classical meets experimental in tectonic layering
BEN CALHOUN has been quietly working away for a while now, leading a double life as a construction worker-cum-experimental musician having begun using Digital Audio Workstations as a creative tool way back in 2014, reconnecting him finally to a performative sphere as a childhood musician he’d left behind Since then he’s digitally released a series of …
ALBUM REVIEW: Disco Zombies – ‘South London Stinks’: a punk story retold by Optic Nerve
Loud, fast and forgotten: DIY punk nuggets are unearthed in this vinyl compilation spanning The Disco Zombies’ career
Track: The Hu Release Cover Of Metallica’s ‘Sad But True’
In just a couple of years, The Hu has turned the metal spectrum on its ear by implementing the genre with elements of traditional Mongolian folk, inclusive of throat singing and traditional instruments, and presenting themselves in the garb and armor of the Huns. The music is of such a spectacle that it’s difficult to …
SEE: FEVER 333 release gravity-defying visual for ‘Wrong Generation’
INGLEWOOD, California-bred rap-rockers FEVER 333 have unleashed an explosive new visual spectacle for the title track to their 2020 EP, Wrong Generation. Directed by Djay Brawner, the video sees frontman Jason Aalon Butler fly around an empty living room whilst Travis Barker smashes the absolute hell out of his drum kit; what could be more …
TRACK: Azita – ‘Online Life’: Drag City songstress returns
YOU WILL probably remember Azita as a quiet singer-songwriter, but nine years have passed since her last release, so a new, rockier style in Lou Reed’s guise is not too surprising in the end. To be honest, her last album, Year, had already started to drift away from her initial chamber-folk style. The Iranian-American songwriter …
EP REVIEW: LUMER – ‘Disappearing Act’: cathartic post-punk anger
Cathartic anger from Yorkshire post-punks stakes their claim to a place in a crowded pantheon