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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VULPYNES – US AGAINST THEM – CD/12” Vinyl EP (2020 FOAD records)
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 …
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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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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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ORGANS – ORGANS CD (2019 Marginal Records/Lugnut/Little Plastic Tapes)
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 …
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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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VULPYNES – DYE ME RED – limited edition 10″ (FOAD Records 2019)
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 …
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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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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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