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
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 …
WEIRD FEELINGS – Unmake Yourself (Little Plastic Tapes 2020) Read More
Squeals of feedback set the landscape for US AGAINST THEM and Vulpynes continue to develop as a compact but impetuous force of guitar noise. From what the ever-unreliable interwebs tell …
VULPYNES – US AGAINST THEM – CD/12” Vinyl EP (2020 FOAD records) Read More
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
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
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 …
ELECTRICALS – HEALING SERVICES – EP (2020 – not on label) 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
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
Finally, Vulpynes returns with a second EP of primal snarl and noisy passion. Apparently these tracks have been sitting on the hotplate since late 2018 – meanwhile the band busied …
VULPYNES – DYE ME RED – limited edition 10″ (FOAD Records 2019) Read More
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, …
STRIKNIËN DC – Dead in the Live Room CD (2019 FOAD RECORDS) Read More
