ALBUM REVIEW: Yung – ‘Ongoing Dispute’
Ongoing Dispute is is an album of maturity and fittingly, a grower with each listen
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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
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Album Review: Lee Ritenour – ‘Dreamcatcher’
OUT RIGHT now on the Players Club label is the new album by one of LA’s finest session guitarists, Lee Ritenour, and his first solo record. The list of who…
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Album Review: The Body – I’ve Seen All I Need To See
Through harrowing combinations of noise, doom, darkwave, industrial, and sludge metal, The Body has proven themselves as a well-equipped vacuum of all things dismal and horrific. A freshman listen of…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Yvette Janine Jackson – ‘Freedom’: two suites of free expression of the Black experience
If real, unafraid, powerful sonic architecture, dialogue and expression is your thing - and in terms of consciousness, maybe it should be - then this record is essential. But enter steeled and go carefully, friend
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Droppin’ Knowledge: Jiyu Purp Creates Spiritual, Life Affirming Hip Hop on His Album Earth is Ours – Interview & Review
Last month, Dallas, Texas based hip hop artist Jiyu Purp released his first long player, Earth is Ours, an album suffused with spirituality and positivity, but one that hits hard,…
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Say Psych: Album Review: Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz
’ Sebastian Murphy dreams about everyone hating his guts. A lot. “I kept having this recurring nightmare where my mom was crying and my friends were all pissed off at…
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ALBUM REVIEW – MATTHEW SWEET – CATSPAW.
Those of us around a certain age may fondly remember the college rock movement of the early-to-mid ‘90s. Lord knows I do. For a period of time, power-pop became fused…
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News: The classic albums ‘Submarine Bells’ and ‘Soft Bomb’ by The Chills are now re-issued through Flying Nun Records
It’s no secret that I am a huge fan of the New Zealand indie music scene ever since the heady days of the eighties, with the Dunedin music scene, spearheaded by the…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Farmer Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West – ‘Farmer Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West’
Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West is like a finely reduced sauce; it packs an awful lot of psychedelic flavour and fun into a fat half-hour. Afrobeat, surf rock, funk, straight psych, country psych, jazz, shoegaze, are all seep through a lovely record with three of four moments of proper excellence and a lot of red-eyed, 1am lava lamp big-grinned fun besides. It's good to see him back.
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