Album Reviews
ALBUM REVIEW: Adam Stafford – ‘Diamonds Of A Horse Famine’: atmospheric folk set from the notebooks
Diamonds Of A Horse Famine is a lyrically precise and freewheelin’ folk set, reviving a rediscovered notebook. Erotic Thistle contends for folk song of the year
EP REVIEW: Fever 333 – ‘Wrong Generation’
FOLLOWING last year’s highly revered album Strength in Numb333rs, it was inevitable that that would not be the last we’d hear from Fever 333. Unfortunately, their new EP, Wrong Generation (released on October 23rd via Roadrunner Records) was born from a situation which should never be happening in our day and age. It comes following …
EP: New Ghost – Future Is Dead
Out now on Bandcamp via Shore Dive Records is the ‘Future Is Dead’ ep by Alternative Rock/Shoegaze/ DreamPop/ Post-Rock collective, New Ghost, who are based in Sheffield, England. The ep starts with the US Alternative Rock style track ‘Your Reds’, full of crunch and fuzz. Then, the vocals- a soulful female voice with a contemporary feel, …
Album Review: Lazy Legs – ‘Moth Mother’ (vinyl reissue)
OUT NOW on Tartarus Records is the album Moth Mother by shoegaze/slowcore band Lazy Legs, who are based in Portland, Oregon. Although first released last year, it’s just had a vinyl reissue, and is the bands second album, and the follow up to 2016’s Visiondeath. Moth Mother begins with a fiery buzz saw guitar which …
Album Review: Pallbearer – ‘Forgotten Days’
Pallbearer are back with their fourth offering of doom metal and a band going almost full circle. This new album is connected to their first long play album ‘Sorrow and Extinction’ as Rowland says: “This record has a lot of thematic ties to our first record.” The band are reliving the early days and this …
ALBUM REVIEW: Magik Markers – ‘2020’: New England noiseniks’ filthy return
New England noiseniks’ full-length return after a six-year absence is filthy, trippy and even, at points, damn pretty. Righteous and cathartic, be glad they’re back
EP Review: Fuzz Lightyear share new EP Fuzz II
Photo credit Sam Joyce South London based trio Fuzz Lightyear are set to release their debut EP ‘Fuzz II’ on 23rd October. Influenced by shoegaze, lo-fi and psych the band were formed in 2019 and recorded the EP in a weekend in Peckham at the end of last year. A rumbling start from first track …
ALBUM REVIEW: SHHE – ‘Re:’: remixers take her debut for a delightful spin deeper
Re: confirms SHHE as a great Scottish talent whose musics lend to steaming and bending into pretty new shapes. There’s a couple of artists working out in the sound forges where she is; but there’s a lot of room for music this good.
EP Review: Flight to Dubai – Strife
It seems to me that Sydney’s Flight To Dubai walk that fine line between utter genius and compete madness. There is a hint of approaching chaos – an apprehension that everything is going to completely collapse into a swamp of anarchy – a sense of anticipation that adds to the heady journey that is their …
Album Review: Underground Lovers release surprise remix collection ‘Shadows’
Spanning their entire thirty career, the new collection of remixes from the legendary Underground Lovers is utterly sublime. It goes without saying that the flesh of a remix is only as good as the bones it is built on, and with the Underground Lovers you are assured that the foundations are phenominal. Many of the …