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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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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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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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 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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