Noise rock
Track: Eye Flys – Guillotine
Following their ‘Context’ EP which was one of last year’s musical highlights for fans of the sort of noise-metal that Amphetamine Reptile would have put out back in the 90s, Eye Flys have released ‘Guillotine’, a teaser track from their full-length debut album ‘Tub of Lard’. Much like the Coup song of the same name, …
News: Lightning Bolt Announce European Tour, Album Reissues
Legendary Providence noise rock duo Lightning Bolt are preparing to tour European festivals this summer and are reissuing their first four albums on Thrill Jockey. European audiences are in for a treat at the band’s shows, which they famously perform in the round and at a deafeningly, sometimes borderline illegally, high decibel level. Lightning Bolt’s …
Track: Bardo Pond / Major Stars – This Inner light / S.L.T. split single
Its something of a coup for Chunklet Industries that they’ve managed to get two of the longest-standing (and best) noise/psych bands on the planet to release a split single. Both bands are touring with Chunklet’s own Henry Owings in a run of US dates that takes in Boston, Philadelphia and Brooklyn. Bardo Pond’s track is …
Album Review : Metz’ ‘Strange Peace’
I will admit that I have a bit of a dude crush on the Canadian rock band METZ. There’s just something about their intense brand of noise rock/post-punk gumbo that gets me in the gut. It’s a kind of rush that comes with a special sort of experience. Maybe like jumping out of a plane, …
Meet: One day, After School
On the eve of their latest single launch, we catch up with Wakefield three-piece, One Day, After School frontman Dean to find out a little bit more about the band… BM: So, who’s who? And where are you all from? ODAS: We are Dean Freeman on vocals and guitar, Dan Hayes on drums and Andrew …
Live Review: Non Plus Ultra at Cafe Oto, 05/02/16
Our culture is obsessed with looking at the past. If culture had a body, it would be contorted, bending over its own limbs, straining to catch a glimpse, through the crevices of its wrinkled, obese flesh, of the jagged traces it had left behind. This behaviour is completely understandable. Not only is modern life rubbish, …
Album Review: Sunn O))) – Kannon
How do you find yourself listening to Sunn O)))? What makes you decide to buy tickets to see Sunn O))), donning cloaks and floating in a sea of fog machine emissions in some small theater as the ceiling tiles shake and plaster cracks and crumbles from the sheer hellish volume they create? In the past …
See: A Place to bury Strangers – Now its over + Tour Dates
A Place To Bury Strangers have just released their latest video. ‘Now It’s Over’, an album track from ‘Transfixiation‘. Dark, somewhat bleak, it’s a rather ominous tune. Video animator Dave Merson Hess explains “I loved the mood of “Now It’s Over”, and the way the lyrics and arrangement captured the feeling of a breakup as …
Psych Insight: EP Review – Array 1 by Loop
When the Pixies released the first of their three EPs after a prolonged absence, back in 2013, many suspected that the decision to stagger their new material was deliberately made to circumvent the critical emphasis that would have been inevitably placed on the songs, had they been released together in the traditional album format. It’s …
Meet: Immingham fuzz merchants Sewer Rats
If you are to believe the hype, Sewer Rats were discovered lurking around a disused Grimsby fish market – yes, it’s grim up North, and it doesn’t get much grimmer than that. Hailed by their label, ‘Fluffer Records‘, as “the future of British rock ‘n’ roll” we needed to find out more. So we headed …