I always liked the fact that the starting point for Motörhead was somewhat amorphous. With an early repertoire reaching back into Hawkwind, Pink Fairies and beyond, there was a blurred …
Motörhead – Motörhead – 40th Anniversary Edition (Chiswick Records 2017) Read More
Technically this is the first, second and third album by this group, but that’s a riddle you can figure out for yourself. The Lankum strategy for curating a songbook has …
LANKUM – Between the Earth and Sky (Rough Trade 2017) Read More
This is the second EP by GRIT in 6 months – a prolific miracle by Irish standards, but one that displays resolve and ambition. Again, the vinyl release is handled …
GRIT – DIAMOND 7” EP (Distr-Oi Records 2017) Read More
REBELLION, the latest in an increasing prolific torrent of Paranoid Visions product comes to us as a sickly confectionary-pink slab of vinyl. What essentially started out as a new EP …
PARANOID VISIONS – REBELLION (Overground Records/FOAD 2017) Read More
Although he was labeled somewhat of a savior of jazz when the sprawling 3-hour THE EPIC landed in 2015, the impact Kamasi Washington and his circle of musicians have had …
KAMASI WASHINGTON – HARMONY OF DIFFERENCE (Young Turks 2017) Read More
At a young and innocent age, I owned a copy of Gary Numan’s DANCE album. This was purchased for 99p in the bargain bin of Golden Discs, North Earl Street …
GARY NUMAN – SAVAGE – Songs from a Broken World (BMG 2017) Read More
It has been 6 long years since the last studio album by Gothenburg’s Carbon Based Lifeforms. In 2011, the curious TWENTYTHREE stepped away from the beats and accessibility of their …
CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS – DERELICTS (Blood Music/Leftfield Records 2017) Read More
The new Woven Skull 10” comes in a sickly school-exercise-book orange sleeve with some lazy crap printed on the front. It’s not a good start. Their first LP proper, LAIR …
WOVEN SKULL – They Were Pebbles But I Call Them Stones 10” (Lancashire and Somerset) Read More
TV TUBE HEART remains one of the great unique first generation punk albums. With a very assured sense of itself, the record stands up to reappraisal and scrutiny 40 years …
THE RADIATORS FROM SPACE – TV TUBE HEART 40th anniversary Edition (2017) Read More
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 …
HAWKWIND – Onward (Plastic Head 2012) album review Read More
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 …
MELODICA DEATHSHIP – The Sunken Path EP (Cooler than Cucumbers Records 2012) Read More
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 …
CARTER TUTTI VOID – Transverse (Mute Records 2012) Read More
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), …
The RADIATORS From Space – SOUND CITY BEAT ( Chiswick Records 2012 ) Read More
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 …
AMEBIX – Sonic Mass (Easy Action Records 2011) Read More
It’s been 5 years since any manner of recorded noise has seeped from the Mortal Records orifice. The interim has seen the REPLICAS anniversary tour in all its nostalgic recapitalisation …
GARY NUMAN – Dead Son Rising ( Mortal Records ) Album Review Read More
Caution was taken in approaching this item as I have unerring faith in this man. What he has injected into the cultural climate of the last 30 years is surrealistic …
DAVID LYNCH – Crazy Clown Time ( Play It Again Sam ) Read More
There’s an instinctive symbiosis that comes with a rare few synth-based duos… something vaguely detectable in the quality that’s difficult to put in words… like a digital genetic compatibility… whatever …
XENO AND OAKLANDER – SET AND LIGHTS ( Wierd Records ) Read More
Crazy Glue – An exploding bauble of luck once cast its shrapnel about the ranks of a certain generation of loud west coast American bands… shards of it struck those …
FISHBONE – CRAZY GLUE ( DC-Jam Records ) Read More
Issued back in March of this year, the economically titled CONSTRUCTION is the debut from one of the more interesting electronic entities currently operating in Dublin. Rough mixes posted on …
CATSCARS – Construction ( White Plague Records 2011 ) Read More
A few years back, Geir Jenssen planted a diatribe on his webspace stating that Biosphere was no longer touring due to the general unhealthy lifestyle that comes with the trappings …
BIOSPHERE – N-Plants ( Touch 2011 ) Read More