Album Reviews
Say Psych: Album Review: Flowers Must Die – Där Bloomor Dör
Flowers Must Die have released their fifth album, Där Bloomor Dör, is all about life and death, birth and rebirth. The double album whose title translates as Where Flowers Die, marks the end of both the record label rev/vega rec. who released the band’s first three albums and the first phase of the band’s career, …
Say Psych: Album Review: Lay Llamas – Thuban
Four years after the release of debut Østro, Lay Llamas return with their second offering Thuban, released on Rocket Recordings. Dwelling in the night sky of the Northern hemisphere, Thuban (named after the Arabic for snake also known as Alpha Draconis, and sometimes as the ‘dragon’s tail’) was the star closest to the North Pole …
ALBUM REVIEW: Jack Adaptor : The Spoiler Versions
Jack Adaptor : The Spoiler Versions The New album from Paul Frederick and Christopher Cordoba Supple Pipe Records SP3011 Quite incredibly this is Jack Adaptors 7th album, Paul Frederick ex Family Cat and Christopher Cordoba have been working together since 1996 with the release of their debut Jack Adaptor and Road Rail River albums …
ALBUM REVIEW: The Yachts : Suffice To Say The Complete Yachts Collection
Cherry Red By Leggy Mountbatten The Yachts Title : Suffice To Say The Complete Yachts Collection The Yachts were formed in Liverpool in April 1977, the band all fine art students had already supported the Sex Pistols under the name Albert Dock and The Cod Warriors but swiftly changed the name and band number to …
Album Review : Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois
Venetian Snares have been releasing unsettling and dischordant music for 20 years – it seems crazy to ask, but are they becoming familiar and cosy. Particularly as the new album is a collaboration with Canadian super-producer and friend of U2 Danial Lanois. How would a collaboration between guitar based perfection and uneasy listening work? It’s …
Say Psych: Album Review: Sherpa The Tiger – Great Vowel Shift
Sherpa The Tiger are a brand-new band hailing from the borderlands of Lviv, Ukraine. With an arsenal of decrepit Soviet synthesisers, the four-piece combine a love of minimalist ambient music and the kosmische grooves that came pumping out of Eastern Europe in the 60s/70s. There are two sides to Sherpa The Tiger, there are the …
Album Review : Oneohtrix Point Never’s ‘Age Of’
Daniel Lopatin’s musical worlds are labyrinthine to say the least. A Oneohtrix Point Never record is like some vast, crystalline museum where you bask in the beauty of art, ancient objects, and philosophies that you don’t quite understand but they entrance you nonetheless. Lopatin curates walks through his psyche with each successive record; each one …
Album Review: Sharone & The Wind – Enchiridion of Nightmares
Despite this being the second album from Sharone & The Wind, it feels like a debut. An introduction to something new, with a sense of purpose and an air of arrival. And you can see why when looking into the band’s brief history. Having undergone a nearly complete lineup change in 2017, this new album …
Album Review: Web Sheldon – Fingerprints
There’s no shortage of music falling into the Backseat Mafia mailbox from new male singer-songwriters. Ever since Ed Sheeran achieved world domination, there as been an influx of young male artists reaching for their guitars and trying to replicate the sound and success of their idol. And there’s a lot of talent out there, all …
Album Review: Modern Studies – Welcome Strangers
Modern Studies’ first album was a lovely pastoral piece of folk-pop, built up around the sound of an old harmonium. Since then seemingly every hipster-Adam-Boyle-type has got themsleves a harmonium, and so it’s good to hear Modern Studies filling out their sound more. The vibe is still relatively downbeat, but trombones and strings are more …