About 4 years ago, a certain rabid and dedicated blogger compiled 7 volumes of a very excellent bootleg series called Synthesizers Rules 1978-1983 ( cough! ) collating a diaspora of proto …
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Iron sky – Laibach’s release pattern over the last decade has been increasingly erratic and with the long-term core of the group down to Ivan Novak and Milan Fras, along …
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Hawkwind seem to be going through a renaissance of late (no doubt due to namedropping from the right places) and given that so much of the band’s recent history has …
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Public Image Limited is an entity that has been with me since that beautifully skewed performance of FLOWERS OF ROMANCE on Top Of The Pops several centuries ago. The unlikelihood …
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Strong tides bring the deathship back into dock with another cargo of throbbing electronic doom, mournful phantasmal melodica and nautical soliloquy. With great strides of confidence, Melodica Deathship have expanded …
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Carter Tutti Void is a much-anticipated return to the Carter Tutti field of work for Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti. It has been somewhat neglected since the wonderful FERAL VAPOURS OF …
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Scattered throughout the minefield of modern music, albums of covers have been recorded by musicians and non musicians for infinite reasons – influence (Ramones), homage (Bowie), lack of ideas (Metallica), …
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Amebix is one of a small number of noisy bands from the punk realms that seem to have this strange chokehold on those who have felt inspired by them. Undoubtedly …
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I first came across the work of Peter Sís in an exhibition of children’s illustration at the Imperial Stables of Prague Castle in 1998. This show was split over two …
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The Solar Fields output over 10 albums has been eclectic, amorphous and impressive, shifting vehicle every couple of albums and facilitating a pick’n’mix outflow of high grade downbeat and ambient …
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