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
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
To get an idea how much of an anomaly Stano’s 1983 debut album Content to Write in I Dine Weathercraft really was, simply compare it to pretty much any other …
STANO – Content To Write In I Dine Weathercraft – vinyl reissue (Allchival 2018) Read More
The world of recorded noise is a divisive one – deeply personal to those who construct it and abhorred by those who, often for very logical reasons, have no taste …
LUXURY MOLLUSC – Osseous Labyrinth Vestibule (Cursed Monk Records 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
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
