album review
ALBUM REVIEW: Pole – ‘Fading’: an enveloping electronic palimpsest
Fading is a palimpsest, Stefan writing over and erasing, finessing and revisiting all the Poles which make up Pole. Think of Fading in terms of depth, of descending, and exploring what lies within. It’ll envelop you.
Album Review: Loma – Don’t Shy Away
“Don’t Shy Away’, the new album from Loma, is a joy: luminescent and glowing throughout with a multi-layered instrumental complexity and yet a simplicity and elegance to the songs that is immersive and enthralling. Throughout the album there are traces of flutes, trombones, saxophones in addition to synths, pianos, violins and of course guitars bass …
ALBUM REVIEW: Dope Body – ‘Crack A Light’: shriekin’ and howlin’ at the altar
Crack A Light really won’t disappoint if you like guitars that shriek and howl in hardcore-stoner distress. A righteous noise purging
ALBUM REVIEWS: Lucifer – ‘Black Mass’; Ataraxia – ‘The Unexplained’: spooky Moog vibes from Mort Garson, reissued
SIXTIES’ and Seventies’ electronica is a weird and eccentric world, seemingly populated by mad genii and creative mavericks with clipboards and lab coats, observing banks of machinery at sonic play. Actually that conception isn’t too far from the truth: Raymond Scott and his Manhattan Research, Inc. while using the new musical technology to place interlude …
ALBUM REVIEW: Keep Dancing Inc – ‘Embrace’ – new wave synthpop is worth the wait
This euphoric, if occasionally generic debut album from Keep Dancing Inc comes after a five-year wait, a wait that has evidently been worth it. With bouncing synths, fuzzy guitars and endless 80s nostalgia, Embrace will get you shaking those shoulder pads in no time
ALBUM REVIEW: Little Barrie and Malcolm Catto – ‘Quatermass Seven’: deep psych; turn on, compadre
IT’S FAIR to say that losing your drummer – the man who pins it down for you, keeps it ticking, grounded, makes sure the groove is strong – is a hell of a blow. And to lose your drummer to a sudden and untimely death, if you’re a psych power trio – well, that’s a …
Album Review: Richard Wileman – ‘Arcana’
UK MUSICIAN Richard Wileman has been making spooky gothic, mostly instrumental music for more than 20 years under the name Karda Estra. In more recent years he’s made a few albums under his own name, the latest being Arcana. Released in September of this year and loosely based on the Tarot, Arcana is a work …
ALBUM REVIEW: Adam Stafford – ‘Diamonds Of A Horse Famine’: atmospheric folk set from the notebooks
Diamonds Of A Horse Famine is a lyrically precise and freewheelin’ folk set, reviving a rediscovered notebook. Erotic Thistle contends for folk song of the year
Album Review: Pallbearer – ‘Forgotten Days’
Pallbearer are back with their fourth offering of doom metal and a band going almost full circle. This new album is connected to their first long play album ‘Sorrow and Extinction’ as Rowland says: “This record has a lot of thematic ties to our first record.” The band are reliving the early days and this …
ALBUM REVIEW: Magik Markers – ‘2020’: New England noiseniks’ filthy return
New England noiseniks’ full-length return after a six-year absence is filthy, trippy and even, at points, damn pretty. Righteous and cathartic, be glad they’re back