Another worthy artifact from the ongoing preservation of the Paranoid Visions archives – I remember Halo Of Phlegm being mentioned in various fanzine interviews way back when as the title …
PARANOID VISIONS – HALO OF PHLEGM (The Vinyl Countdown Part 4 – Refreshed Exposures) (FOAD 2022) Read More
I’ve always found Jah Wobble’s musical journey far too prolific to follow with any degree of consistency, and my best effort has been to dip into it every couple of …
JAH WOBBLE – Metal Box Rebuilt In Dub – 2xLP (Cleopatra Records 2021) Read More
In the great abstraction of reality we’ve been living through, I always hoped that the upside would be frustrated musicians and non-musicians turning inward. While collaborative and band situations are …
SISTER ODD – Bruise/Reuse (self released 2021) Read More
Fodder from Weird Feelings has been a long time coming. These recordings were released just after Xmas 2020 but date back to 2019 and a rehearsal space that is likely …
WEIRD FEELINGS – Unmake Yourself (Little Plastic Tapes 2020) Read More
If one good thing has come of underground music in the year of prevailing lurgies, it is that forced inactivity has given some bands the time to take stock of …
PARANOID VISIONS – Re-Pressed Emotions 2XLP (FOAD/Urinal Vinyl 2020) Read More
I’ve always been a bit of a trainspotter when it comes to Neue Deutsche Welle (German new wave). Lack of cynicism, new-romantic pretence and self-consciousness so rampant in English music …
SOFIA PORTANET – Freier Geist (2020 Duchess Box Records) Read More
For your auricular displeasure, Irish electronic entity ROGUE SPORE presents a new release celebrating 10 years of noise, esoteric and amphibious electronic experiments. A DECADE OF IRONING BOARD ELECTRONICS 2010-2020 …
ROGUE SPORE – A Decade of Ironing Board Electronics 2010-2020 (RS9-2020) Read More
Dublin based Zeropunkt continues its probing of cosmic noise and progressive spontaneity with a new album, the group’s second under the current name, and squillionth if you include the material …
ZEROPUNKT – Clap Your Hands And Say No (2020) Read More
In a world of independent oddities, this is exactly how the humble 7” deserves to be delivered – high-concept, low-frill, electronic punk from the wonderfully named German duo I AM …
I AM THE FLY – I AM THE FLY 7” EP (not on label 2020) Read More
Electricals debut is a 4 track digital download recorded late 2019, about a year after the band’s formation. Given past ventures of the musicians involved (Drainland, Vircolac, Serpents, Lurch and …
ELECTRICALS – HEALING SERVICES – EP (2020 – not on label) Read More
Released in mid-December 2019, ORGANS is an improvisational experiment of sorts, a loose collective of musicians curated by Ian Pearce (Comply or Die, Minnows, Bad Dates etc.) to redress the …
ORGANS – ORGANS CD (2019 Marginal Records/Lugnut/Little Plastic Tapes) Read More
There are few albums as ingrained in my head as GHOSTOWN, and while I thought it would be an easy one to rattle off a few words about, the act …
RADIATORS – GHOSTOWN 40th Anniversary Reissue – Double CD (Chiswick Records 2019) Read More
It’s feels strange to be reassessing archive material from the 1990s Dublin punk underground. These recordings are a quarter of a century old and at the time they were made, …
STRIKNIËN DC – Dead in the Live Room CD (2019 FOAD RECORDS) Read More
When UNDER THE BIG BLACK SUN was published in 2016, I mistakenly expected it to be a biographical piece on X as told by John Doe. There’s certainly a worthy …
MORE FUN IN THE NEW WORLD – THE UNMAKING OF LA PUNK – John Doe with Tom DeSavia and friends (Da Capo Press 2019) Read More
This is the debut release by Dublin 3-piece SOFT ON CRIME. Its members have been lurking in locally based bands both relatively known and utterly obscure for as long as …
SOFT ON CRIME – IN THE TERRANIUM cassette/DL (2019 Eats It Records & Tapes ) Read More
VOX has always been considered the great “lost” Irish magazine. Founded by editor Dave Clifford in a hugely fertile period of underground culture, it ran for 3 years and has …
VOX 80-83 – No.1-No.15 complete (Hi Tone Books 2019) 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
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
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