WEIRD FEELINGS – Unmake Yourself (Little Plastic Tapes 2020)
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 …
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PARANOID VISIONS – Re-Pressed Emotions 2XLP (FOAD/Urinal Vinyl 2020)
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 …
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SOFIA PORTANET – Freier Geist (2020 Duchess Box Records)
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 …
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ROGUE SPORE – A Decade of Ironing Board Electronics 2010-2020 (RS9-2020)
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 …
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ZEROPUNKT – Clap Your Hands And Say No (2020)
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 …
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I AM THE FLY – I AM THE FLY 7” EP (not on label 2020)
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 …
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ELECTRICALS – HEALING SERVICES – EP (2020 – not on label)
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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ORGANS – ORGANS CD (2019 Marginal Records/Lugnut/Little Plastic Tapes)
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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RADIATORS – GHOSTOWN 40th Anniversary Reissue – Double CD (Chiswick Records 2019)
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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STRIKNIËN DC – Dead in the Live Room CD (2019 FOAD RECORDS)
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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