Album Reviews
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
ALBUM REVIEW: Tamar Aphek – ‘All Bets Are Off’: superb opening salvo from Tel Aviv power trio
Tamar Aphek takes the power trio thing and moves it forward into new psych-blues-rock territories with elegance and so much fire. She also might just be the best new noisy guitar stylist since Joey Santiago and John Dwyer. She’s potent and has a voice of real elegance, and sonic firepower, and tunes, and the future is very, very bloody bright indeed
EP REVIEW: Clarice Jensen – ‘Anu Mosir’: a quarter-hour of deft cello and electronics
Anu Mosir is a gorgeous way to spend a quarter of an hour of your time. Put it on repeat, let it maybe move beyond a rudely fractional usage of your day
ALBUM REVIEW: The Besnard Lakes – ‘ … Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings’
Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings is the sound of a band set free, wings spread; big, theatrical, but not self-indulgent. They know exactly what these songs demand and are prepared to give them everything they need. In terms of scope, file next to Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space and The Soft Bulletin. A lot going on, in short. Trust in their vision; they’ve got this.
Album Review: Ian David Green – Songs of the Sea
Songs of the Sea is Ian David Green’s debut full album, due for release on Bandcamp on 20th February 2021, and what a debut! Green is a singer-songwriter from Liverpool, now living in London. His musical influences range from folk greats like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Van Morrison to more contemporary folk / indie …
Album Review: Bloodkill – Throne Of Control
Bloodkill were born out of the 80s thrash taking inspiration from bands like Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Kreator, Exodus etc. Their self produced debut album ‘Throne Of Control’, takes what these guys have learnt from their forebears’s and reshapes it for the 21s century. Old school metal in fresh modern hands. The band comments: ”Throne of …
EP REVIEW: Minotaur Shock – ‘Qi’: exhilarating and complex IDM for Bytes
Freed from the tyranny of production choice, Qi is Minotaur Shock’s freest and most beguiling outing since back in his Melodic days
Album Review: James Yorkston and the Second Hand Orchestra – The Wide, Wide River
Warm, natural, humorous, gentle, empathic ….all words that justifiably get bandied about in the scrabble to describe James Yorkston’s music. What’s often overlooked is his continued pursuit of different pathways around the songwriting landscape. He’s worked with Kieran Hebden, Simon Raymonde, Rustin Man and Alexis Taylor over two decades of record making and most recently …
ALBUM REVIEW: Yung – ‘Ongoing Dispute’
Ongoing Dispute is is an album of maturity and fittingly, a grower with each listen
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