Turbonegro has been lurking so long that it’s hard to believe this is only album number 9. The intoxicating brew of releases that straddled their first break-up seems like a …
TURBONEGRO – ROCKNROLL MACHINE (2018 Burger Records) Read More
This is the limited edition vinyl release of FEELER, an album that was technically launched in early December 2017. Some manner of sleeve manufacturing woe held the physical product to …
ALIEN SHE – FEELER ltd edition 12” Green Vinyl (Art For Blind Records 2018) Read More
Sporadic comes in many forms and The Number Ones, amongst other things, have sporadic down to a fine art with a gap of 3 ½ years since the release of …
THE NUMBER ONES – ANOTHER SIDE OF THE NUMBER ONES 7” EP (Static Shock Records 2018) Read More
In 2016, OUTCASTS BY CHOICE garnered much praise and adulation as it bounced around various film festivals globally. Film Ireland described it as “a labour of love, produced on a …
OUTCASTS BY CHOICE – DVD (2017 LOUDfastLOUD.com) Read More
2017 has been a busy year for Cosey Fanni Tutti. In February, Hull 2017 UK City Of Culture mounted the first major retrospective of Coum Transmissions, the pre-Throbbing Gristle performance …
COSEY FANNI TUTTI – Time To Tell (vinyl reissue 2017 Conspiracy International) Read More
My first encounter with the work of Gilbert & George was at ROSC’84 in the Guinness Hop Store. Our first year class tutor was an art teacher who was savvy …
Gilbert & George – THE BEARD PICTURES AND THEIR FUCKOSOPHY White Cube, Bermondsey, London 22/11/2017 – 28/1/2018 Read More
The enigmatic ¡NO! entity has been lingering on the fringes of Dublin’s musical underground of the last 3-4 years, sporadically birthing a handful of CDR, cassette and download releases, and …
¡NO! – Sediments (Little Gem Records 2017) Read More
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
Considering that the first de-facto promo single for this album came out 2 years ago, it seems like the Trouble Pilgrims full-length debut has been stewing for a very long …
TROUBLE PILGRIMS – DARK SHADOWS AND RUST (Chiswick 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 first new studio material from Slice Of Life since 2015’s excellent LOVE AND A LAMP POST. After 3 years, I was hoping there would be more than …
STEVE IGNORANT’S SLICE OF LIFE – JUST ANOTHER – EP (Harbinger Sound 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
When Don’t Swim On The East Coast EP by The Sussed was originally released, local punk singles were a rarity. Although several impresarios in Northern Ireland had the enthusiasm to …
THE SUSSED – Don’t Swim On The East Coast EP (Reissue – Spit 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
Last time we encountered Laibach in its full glory, the group had shape-shifted yet again, switching to subversively accessible mode with 2014’s wonderful SPECTRE. Technically, Mina Špiler has been part …
LAIBACH – Also Sprach Zarathustra (Mute 2017) Read More
Francisco Goya is probably the most significant ancestor of modern art. He excelled at portraiture and commission work, treading in the footsteps of old Spanish masters like Velázquez, but transitioned …
FRANCISCO GOYA: The Disasters of War – Chester Beatty Library (6/10/17 – 21/1/18) 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