The world used to be awash with zines of all sorts. The ones I saw were mostly punk or comics (or punk comics), and occasionally publications about UFOs or how …
DRAG ACID Issue 7 – Earth Angel And Snowy – Fran Cassidy (thirty three-45 2021) Read More
Scatalogik.com has been busy behind the scenes with a writing project not destined for this site. For this reason, the site has been fairly slack with regard to reviewing new …
(Relatively) normal service is about to resume… Read More
It’s only fair that I declare a fairly strong bias before I proceed – At a time that I was elbowing my way through what was inspirational and what was …
BAD RELIGION – Age Of Unreason – vinyl LP (Epitaph 2019) Read More
Albums embodying, expressing or otherwise loosely interpreting fluctuations in mental health are certainly not unusual – Channeling brain turbulence through any form of art is a timeworn tradition, no doubt …
PETE JOHNSON – Screwball – CD (self released/not on label 2019) Read More
The self-determination of underground culture is such that every fully formed tribe has its unique indigenous features, and as with the often self-taught nature of underground musicians, many of these …
WELCOME TO VENICE: Ric (RXCX) Clayton (Gingko Press/Kill Your Idols 2018) Read More
Deadlamb Records seems to have been lurking in the background for some time, with a steady output of Irish and international punk product including Nomatrix, Jobseekers, Disturbance, Greenland Whalefishers, Plan …
VARIOUS – LAMPAIGN – IRELAND – Irish Punk Compilation LP (Deadlamb Records 2019) Read More
Let us get pastoral for a minute – I have always had a love for the bright weak sunshine and shards of long shadow that break the lethargy of a …
THROBBING GRISTLE – Journey Through A Body – Vinyl Reissue (MUTE 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
In what can be construed as fitting move to represent equality in disfunction, the ubiquitous shot of Richard Ramirez that adorned 2016’s THE NILZ MADE ME DO IT is now …
THE NILZ – Kiss me, My Executioner (self released CD 2018) Read More
This is an exciting prospect. Kronos Quartet was always one of those entities that just kept popping up on my radar, not because (at least initially) I went looking for …
LAURIE ANDERSON & KRONOS QUARTET – Landfall (Nonesuch Records 2018) Read More
