Music
See: Ted Byrnes takes us back to the primeval beat with the raw percussive expression of ‘Preparation’
HAVING in the past laid down the rhythmic anchor for artists as diverse as Zola Jesus and LA’s experimental hiphop collective clipping, among an absolute host of others, sticksman in demand Ted Byrnes has stepped out, stepped forward and stepped back to the intense, raw roots of the drum for his new album of solo …
Album review: Kevin Richard Martin – ‘Return To Solaris’: The Bug is the ghost in the machine for this ecstatically eerie rescoring of the Soviet sci-fi classic
WORKING with huge acclaim in the shadowier textures of electronic music now for longer than we care to recall, Kevin Richard Martin – aka The Bug, King Midas Sound, Techno Animal – has composed a new score for Andrei Tarkovsky’s incredible 1972 sci-fi Solaris, which work will be released on Phantom Limb on June 25th. …
Track: Maarja Nuut -‘Kutse tantsule / A Call For Dance’: fluid, bewitching and seductively free Estonian folktronica – it’s genius
BORN in Rakvere, a small town in the very north of Estonia, a handful of miles from the Baltic Sea, the experimental musician Maarja Nuut was first introduced to music by her mother, a choir conductor, which opened up a world which would become her métier. Aged 7 she began taking violin lessons, studying at the Tallinn …
Live: Confidence Man/A. Swayze and the Ghosts/King Stingray – Dark Mofo Festival 2021
I’m not sure I can remember such a brilliant triple line up in one night without attending a full blown musical festival. Three bands just about removed the roof of the Odeon Theatre in Hobart and I left with a rictus grin I couldn’t remove for hours. Actually, it’s still there. Confidence Man and A. …
See: Slow Down Molasses share the 62-second rush of ‘Son Of Titanic’: don’t delay, get involved
·FOR THOSE of you out in the noise hinterlands who are yearning for the recently departed Yuck, wipe the tears from thine eye and don’t despair; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan’s Slow Down Molasses have got a short, sharp pick-me-up that’ll see you right. With a new album, Minor Deaths, their first in five years, slated for an …
Album review: DC’s Dark Nights – ‘Death Metal’: a raw, ravaging soundtrack
THE NEW soundtrack album is an ambitious and extraordinary ‘first’; the musical accompaniment to the recent DC Comics event, helmed by writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo. Based upon a hellish Earth twisted beyond recognition, wherein the Justice League is at the mercy of the Dark Multiverse and a diabolical Batman Who Laughs, the …
See: Half Moon Run scour your emotions with the autumnal monochrome of ‘It’s True’; their ‘Inwards & Onwards’ EP is out now
“I’M PROUD of the fact that, as we live and grow, we’re able to continue to make music that evolves andchanges and seems to be meaningful,” Conner Molander observes as his band, Half Moon Run, enter their twelfth year of existence. “It’s not like we found a trick and had a successful album because of …
See: Pie Eye Collective feat. Hector Plimmer – ‘Flibbers’: gloriously subaquatic, rollin’ breaks for a dancefloor in Atlantis
PIE EYE COLLECTIVE is the solo project of Bristol-born, London-based sound scientist Matthew Gordon, who melds elements of ambient, broken beat, dub-techno and hip hop, all refracted and discoloured via a spectrum of tape-saturated synthesis. His influences are many and stylistically diverse, and include Sun Ra, Morton Feldman and Madlib; but he’s also heavily influenced …
Track: Cerberon – Outpost 31
Scottish heavy metallers Cerberon have shared the track ‘Outpost 31’, taken from their upcoming EP. Creepy industrial metal that hits in the right places with its traditional heavy beat and deep growling vocals. Rumbling drums and a chugging riff lend a sense of paranoia and isolation that matches the video. Cerberon are creating something slightly different …
Track: Shaman’s Harvest Reveal First New Song in 4 Years ‘Bird Dog’
Missouri rocker’s Shaman’s Harvest, have returned with their first new song in four years with ‘Bird Dog’, ahead of the band’s upcoming new studio album via Mascot Records. Folk tinged rock with strings and piano with almost chant like vocals. Those deep and hypnotic vocal lines, the pounding of drums, the twang of a mouth harp all set …