The self-determination of underground culture is such that every fully formed tribe has its unique indigenous features, and as with the often self-taught nature of underground musicians, many of these …
WELCOME TO VENICE: Ric (RXCX) Clayton (Gingko Press/Kill Your Idols 2018) Read More
Deadlamb Records seems to have been lurking in the background for some time, with a steady output of Irish and international punk product including Nomatrix, Jobseekers, Disturbance, Greenland Whalefishers, Plan …
VARIOUS – LAMPAIGN – IRELAND – Irish Punk Compilation LP (Deadlamb Records 2019) Read More
Strange is the world of Laibach that it has taken 3 years for an audio document of this project to emerge. Given the publicity surrounding Laibach’s high adventures in the …
LAIBACH – The Sound Of Music (2018 MUTE RECORDS) Read More
Bow Wow Wow is very much a part of post-punk pop culture at a time when ideas didn’t have to be polished into glossy turds to become pop hits. The …
BOW WOW WOW – Your Box Set Pet, The Complete Recordings 1980-84, 3CD Clamshell Box Set (Cherry Red 2018) Read More
To get an idea how much of an anomaly Stano’s 1983 debut album Content to Write in I Dine Weathercraft really was, simply compare it to pretty much any other …
STANO – Content To Write In I Dine Weathercraft – vinyl reissue (Allchival 2018) Read More
Let us get pastoral for a minute – I have always had a love for the bright weak sunshine and shards of long shadow that break the lethargy of a …
THROBBING GRISTLE – Journey Through A Body – Vinyl Reissue (MUTE 2018) Read More
When ROAD TO RUIN was released in September 1978, it was the first of many watershed moments for the Ramones. Where the first 3 albums were a natural progression of …
RAMONES – Road to Ruin – 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Rhino 2018) Read More
Although theoretically anyone with a laptop, a couple of externals, and a genuine ability to self-edit can build some worthy ambient electronic fodder, high quality seams of creativity appear to …
LIGHTS A.M. – Lightworker – digital single (self-released 2018) Read More
Pożoga describes itself as an “international punk consortium” – With lyrics provided in Spanish, Polish and English, I’m guessing that’s the international make-up of the band… Whatever the configuration, Pożoga’s …
POŻOGA – Pożoga 7” EP (Distroy Records/multi-label release 2018) Read More
This is a collaboration that looks cautiously promising on paper. I occasionally stumble across Nik Turner’s musical endeavours, and while I cannot confess to being much interested in anything jazzy …
NIK TURNER AND YOUTH – PHARAOHS FROM OUTER SPACE (Painted Word Music 2018) Read More
It has been a long time since I purchased a cassette. I wouldn’t exactly say I’m repellant to the format… from black shelled and orange-labeled BASF LH SMs to ubiquitous …
EXTRAVISION – DEMO cassette (Art For Blind Records 2018) Read More
Until I read the announcement of this release in late March, I honestly didn’t think there would be another Klaus Schulze studio album. Official but vague statements about serious health …
KLAUS SCHULZE – Silhouettes (SPV/Oblivion 2018) Read More
Although few and far between at this point, local compilations are always an education of sorts. From the band you’re sick of seeing to that band name you’ve seen on …
VARIOUS ARTISTS – KARATE KLUB Dublin HC/Punk Compilation (Distroy Records 2018) Read More
The world of recorded noise is a divisive one – deeply personal to those who construct it and abhorred by those who, often for very logical reasons, have no taste …
LUXURY MOLLUSC – Osseous Labyrinth Vestibule (Cursed Monk Records 2018) Read More
The last time The Ex issued a non-collaborative album, it was the sonic & political barrage of CATCH MY SHOE in 2011. Cathartic in its colliding rhythms and subtle in …
THE EX – 27 Passports (Ex Records 2018) Read More
Vulpynes has been a name lurking ever increasingly on my radar – local gig bills and assorted online recommendation rants – until I eventually found myself under the same roof …
VULPYNES – Vulpynes – CDEP ( Headcheck Records 2018 ) Read More
This was never going to be anything but intriguing. Although Chris Carter’s legacy as a synthesist is clear to anyone with an ounce of lateral thought, the wider scourge of …
CHRIS CARTER – Chemistry Lessons Volume One (Mute Records 2018) Read More
As a long-term enthusiast of what could be loosely termed Berlin school electronics, my ears are constantly peeled for contemporary material observing the original gene pool as a reference point, …
HAWKSMOOR – HAWKSMOOR (Negative Drive Records 2018) Read More
In what can be construed as fitting move to represent equality in disfunction, the ubiquitous shot of Richard Ramirez that adorned 2016’s THE NILZ MADE ME DO IT is now …
THE NILZ – Kiss me, My Executioner (self released CD 2018) Read More
This is an exciting prospect. Kronos Quartet was always one of those entities that just kept popping up on my radar, not because (at least initially) I went looking for …
LAURIE ANDERSON & KRONOS QUARTET – Landfall (Nonesuch Records 2018) Read More