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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AFTERWARDNESS – Afterwardness LP (Thirty Three 45 2020)
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 …
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Soft On Crime – 7″ (2020 Eats It Records & Tapes)
In June 2019, Soft On Crime released a compelling debut with In The Terranium – five small nuggets of jangling garage-pop modestly presented as a cassette release. Immediately apparent was …
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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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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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LANKUM – THE LIVELONG DAY (Rough Trade 2019)
Lankum’s 2017 debut for Rough Trade made a strong case for a band with definite intent about reforging tradition, mixing new ideas into the musty jars of heritage and happily …
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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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SOFT ON CRIME – IN THE TERRANIUM cassette/DL (2019 Eats It Records & Tapes )
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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ZEROPUNKT (formerly ¡NO!) – Bitch Nails – digital single (self-released 2019)
When you are willfully divergent and askew to the point that logic dictates your bandname as ¡NO!, its ungooglability is going to bite you sooner or later. In my clunky …
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