Contributing to the amorphous vaults of Irish psychedelic guitar noise is always important work, but work nonetheless and something to be approached with foresight. Monolithic repetition and loose structure do …
AFTERWARDNESS – Afterwardness LP (thirty three-45 2020) 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
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
All City Records continues its worthy Allchival series with a long overdue reissue of the one and only album by street musician Michael O’Shea, originally released in 1982. Beyond the …
MICHAEL O’SHEA – Michael O’Shea – vinyl reissue (Allchival 2018) Read More
This is a collaboration that looks cautiously promising on paper. I occasionally stumble across Nik Turner’s musical endeavours, and while I cannot confess to being much interested in anything jazzy …
NIK TURNER AND YOUTH – PHARAOHS FROM OUTER SPACE (Painted Word Music 2018) 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
Hawkwind seem to be going through a renaissance of late (no doubt due to namedropping from the right places) and given that so much of the band’s recent history has …
HAWKWIND – Onward (Plastic Head 2012) album review Read More
Dublin is by no means exclusive in it’s ability to be a harsh environment to that which sticks around for longer than the ever decreasing attention span of it’s troglodyte …
ESTEL – A Massive, Glorious, Uphill, Shit-Fight ( Little Plastic Tapes/Headwrecker 2011) Read More
We’re all competing for elbow room…. I tend to grab my reading material and stand near the Bunty comix – There are a number of reasons for this, but the …
ULTIMATE BILGE PUMPING (originally appeared in RIOT 77 issue 6) Read More