Album Review : Paul Gilbert’s ‘Behold Electric Guitar’
I first discovered Paul Gilbert when I was a freshman in high school. Somewhere around 1988 or 1989 I picked up the Racer X album Second Heat and I was…
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Album Review : Com Truise’s ‘Persuasion System’
Up to this point, producer/musician Seth Haley has worked in specific narratives within his project Com Truise. A loose concept about a space traveler named Com Truise, a self-described “synthetic…
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Album Review: Madonnatron – Musica Alla Puttanesca
If you haven’t heard London all-girl quartet Madonnatron and you’re expecting from their name some kind of vivacious, day-glo punk/synth/pop thing with subject matter scattered between myths, legends, and things…
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Album Review: Dommengang – No Keys
No Keys, the third album from Dommengang, sees the three piece further hone the blues rock of 2018’s Love Jail, while still keeping some of the psych rock stylings that…
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Album review: Doomsquad – Let Yourself Be Seen
Let Yourself Be Seen is the 3rd album of electronic weirdness from Canadian “art collective” Doomsquad, and it’s out now on Bella Union. Previous releases have seen brightly coloured strangeness…
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Album Review: The North Sea Radio Orchestra feat. John Greaves & Annie Barbazza – Folly Bololey: Songs from Robert Wyatt’s Rock Bottom
Following his retirement in 2014, there are few, if any opportunities to hear new material from Robert Wyatt, though while he remains alive and in reasonable health, there’s always a…
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Album Review: The Raft – Abloom
Backseat Mafia has been following with great delight the prolific releases of The Raft for the last few years – a series of brilliant EPs that somehow capture an unique…
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Album Review: Wreckless Eric – Transience
Wreckless Eric began his recording life on Stiff Records in 1977 with his enduring hit Whole Wide World when he was little more than an ex-teenage art student. 7 albums…
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Album Review: Simon Bonney – Past, Present, Future
Crime & The City Solution front man Simon Bonney has drawn together songs from his last two albums – 1992’s Forever and Everyman from a couple of years later, along…
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Album Review: Lomea – Echoes In Bloom
It would be easy just to tell you that London producer Lomea creates beats that are emotive and cross a number of genres. I could do that, but Resident Advisor…
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