Album Reviews
Album Review: Mark Lanegan – Straight Songs of Sorrow.
Mark Lanegan is an artist that I have been aware of for a while. A former Screaming Tree, long time solo artist, serial collaborator, and a man who many wondered how he survived his darkest days, Lanegan’s recently published memoir, Sing Backwards and Weep, makes it clear that he appreciates just how lucky he has been to still …
Album Review: Modern Studies – The Weight Of the Sun
With new album The Weight Of the Sun, Modern Studies haven’t actually changed the blueprint of their previous two albums, more adapted it. With the two main protagonists living apart, Emily Scott in Lancashire, while Rob St John is in Scotland, social distancing hasn’t made the slightest difference to the band, but thats not stopped …
Album Review: Hayley Williams – Petals For Armor
It’s the solo record that many people disputed would ever happen, but boy, are we so glad it finally did. On 8th May 2020 through Atlantic, we were finally treated to the collection of songs now known as Petals For Armor, by Paramore‘s frontwoman Hayley Williams. The album was written throughout 2019, chronicling Williams experience …
Album Review: Dope Body – Home Body
It has been 4 years years since Baltimore’s 21st century-style Stooges – ‘Dope Body’ decided to call it quits and head their separate ways. They weren’t apart for long before they got back together and released on to the world an isolation-times mixtape. ‘Home Body’ is the result released May 1st via Drag City. It’s …
Droppin Knowledge: New Album Review: Nappy Nina: 30 Bag
Nappy Nina has a way with words. The way they stretch and roll off the tongue. The way they can jumble together in a rush of emotion, or the way they can emerged clipped, like shots fired from a gun. Any artists who works with words understands their import and the importance of word selection. …
EP: Tears on Demand – Tears on Demand
Out now is a five track ep from Tears on Demand on Brighton’s Indie label, Shore Dive Records. The ep is of the same name and is packed with atmospheric songs combining Shoegaze and Electronica with Dance and Psychedelia. Tears on Demand uses electronic beats, which are the foundation for something which is highly unique …
Album Review: The Soft Pink Truth – Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
“Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?” This is a question posed by St. Paul in Romans 6:1 that begins an investigation into how we are to continue to exist in a world of sin, and it’s a question that Drew Daniel posed to himself during the creation of The Soft Pink …
EP: Sun Mahshene – Contradictions and Tales of Fiction
Available now on Bandcamp is the latest EP from Dublin-based Psychedelic Rock/ Shoegaze Band, Sun Mahshene. It’s five tracks long and is called ‘Contradictions and Tales of Fiction’. These tracks are awash with colourful, guitar pedal driven psychedelic soundscapes. At times there is a ‘’lived in’ synth element running alongside the guitar sounds, providing plenty of …
Album Review: Diet Cig – Do you wonder about me?
Some things change and some things stay the same. We all know that, and that’s the case too for Alex Luciano and Noah Bowman, aka Diet Cig who’s second album ‘Do you wonder about me’ is just out. They’ve changed in more ways than one, relocating to Richmond, Virginia for the record, but their songwriting …
Say Psych: Album Review: RMFTM – The Bestial Light
Dutch experimentalists RMFTM (aka Radar Men From The Moon) are ushering in their tenth year as a band with their sixth full length The Bestial Light, released 8 May on Fuzz Club Records. The LP marks yet another evolution in sound and line-up from the shape-shifting Eindhoven-based collective. Across their extensive back-catalogue and many collaborations …