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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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