Not Forgotten: Babybird – Ugly Beautiful
It’s difficult to comprehend just how much airplay Babybird’s “You’re Gorgeous” received back in 1996. Listening back to it now, it still stands up as a great pop song, albeit…
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Blu-Ray Review: Body Double
There are very few American directors still working in Hollywood today who are held in the same reverence and regard as Brian De Palma. He first emerged in the American…
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Say Psych: Album Review, Mantra Music by Megaritual
One of the comments that I often make in this blog is something along the lines of “I can’t believe that only 2/3 people are making all this great noise”. With…
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Incoming: In Pursuit of Silence
In Pursuit of Silence is a meditative exploration of our relationship with silence, sound and the impact of noise on our lives. Beginning with an ode to John Cage’s ground-breaking…
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Album Review: Xylaroo – Sweetooth
Harmony pop is a difficult art to master, but in Xylaroo we have an act who have seemingly leapt to the top of this difficult to ascend tree in a…
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Live Review: The Divine Comedy / Lisa O’Neill, The Foundry, Sheffield, 15/10/16
I last saw Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy under the banner of “An Evening with Neil Hannon” (rather than the full band line-up on show tonight) back in 2010…
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News: Paolo Nutini announces second Hogmanay show
Paolo Nutini is giving an early festive gift to fans that missed out on tickets to his Hogmanay show, by announcing he will play a ‘Night Afore Concert’ on Friday…
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Say Psych: Album Review, Confusion Moderne by DTCV
Every so often I like to take a breather from the dark distortion-filled basement of fuzz that I tend to occupy. I consider it to be good for my mental…
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Say Psych: Album Review, Body Cults by Narcosatanicos
If you rehearse your music in a still radioactive cellar that formerly held chemical weapons during WWII then chances are that you are gonna come up with some seriously fucked up…
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DVD Review: Behemoth
There are many ways to skin a documentary but seldom follow a similar path to Zhao Liang’s meandering poetic and lyrical Behemoth. Whilst the angle a filmmaker approaches subjects like…
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