post-punk
Track: The KVB – In Deep, plus European tour dates
Out on March 11th via Geoff Barrows Invada label is the new studio album from London duo The KVB, aka Nicholas Wood & Kat Day. From it, the bands fifth LP since 2010, the pair have released a single, In Deep. Described by Wood as being about longing, “there is definitely a romantic undercurrent to …
Album Review: Savages – Adore Life
It is rare that I will just sit down and write an album review after my first listen. I like to give my brain some breathing space, to come to terms with what I’ve heard and collect my feelings. Not so this time.The new album from London post-punk four-piece Savages has compelled me to start …
Reissue: The Passions – Michael and Miranda
Appearing from the break up of the 101ers, Joe Strummers band pre the Clash, and punk outfit The Derelicts, Barbara Gogan and drummer Clive Timperley formed The Passions in 1978, following their first single release in 1979 the band were signed to Fiction records and recorded their debut album Michael and Miranda released in 1980. …
Track: Holy Esque – Hexx
Glasgow quartet Holy Esque have announced their long awaited debut album will drop on February 26th 2016 via Beyond The Frequency. From it the band are streaming a brand new single, Hexx – released as a double a-side along with ‘Silences’ on the flip, which is out on December 7th. It bursts into life, with …
Album Review: Killing Joke – Pylon
Killing Joke occupy that interstitial space between order and chaos, between sanity and madness, between the temporal and the spiritual, between darkness and light…that moment just before the apocalypse consumes us all. On occasion the band have teetered over onto on side or another, producing a series of albums in the 1980s which were relatively …
Album Review: Die Nerven – ‘Out’
‘Out’ is the third LP release, by Stuttgart post-punk trio Die Nerven. I am delighted that this found it’s way to me via Ben Lynch at PinDrop Publicity – just the other day, I was reminiscing about John Peel having introduced me to Xmal Deutschland and Einstürzende Neubauten back in the day, courtesy of one of those Facebook …
EP: TEAR – TEAR
When Throwing Up tragically split up (one of the jewels in Tim Burgess’ O’Genesis’ records crown – in my humble opinion) I was distraught at not having caught them live. Thankfully TEAR have arisen from the ashes of said band and front woman Camille has harnessed a stronger, tighter unit this time around. PJ Harvey …
Live Review: PINS – Oslo, Hackney, 23.10.2015 plus Gallery
PINS were at their sharpest for a wild night at Oslo in Hackney. When the time is taken to strategically place LED filled glowing balloons on a stage, you know the band are getting ready for some revelry. When PINS arrived on stage in front of their shimmering backdrop they lost no time in getting …
See: Guides reveal video for “Pictures on Pictures”
Taken from the recently released EP Abstract Mind, comes a new video for the track Pictures on Pictures by Los Angeles post rockers Guides. The song itself has this fizzing, buzzing post punkiness about it, crashing and scything throughout the only Hong that remains in control is the vocal, a rich baritone that adds weight …
News: Edsel to Reissue five Comsat Angels albums with extras
Sheffield quartet The Comsat Angels were perhaps always the bridesmaids, never the brides. Whether it was that their brand of Post-Punk was always that little to bleak, and the angst contained within was a little to heartbreaking for the wider public, that instead latched onto the likes of U2, the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes …