This is a shit-weather album. The first time I gave it a spin, it was sunny outside and whatever this music does to get its hooks into my brain wasn’t …
One Leg One Eye – …And Take The Black Worm With Me – LP (Nyaah Records 2022) Read More
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 …
LANKUM – THE LIVELONG DAY (Rough Trade 2019) 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
Technically this is the first, second and third album by this group, but that’s a riddle you can figure out for yourself. The Lankum strategy for curating a songbook has …
LANKUM – Between the Earth and Sky (Rough Trade 2017) Read More
This is the first new studio material from Slice Of Life since 2015’s excellent LOVE AND A LAMP POST. After 3 years, I was hoping there would be more than …
STEVE IGNORANT’S SLICE OF LIFE – JUST ANOTHER – EP (Harbinger Sound 2017) 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