I’m not sure if this is a recording project or something set up as an operational band in the sense that any of us think we know what that is …
VIOLENT MOOD SWING – In Regards To Your Previous Email LP (self-released/not on label 2022) Read More
Another worthy artifact from the ongoing preservation of the Paranoid Visions archives – I remember Halo Of Phlegm being mentioned in various fanzine interviews way back when as the title …
PARANOID VISIONS – HALO OF PHLEGM (The Vinyl Countdown Part 4 – Refreshed Exposures) (FOAD 2022) Read More
Nomatrix are one of those bands that, through the relative isolation of Athlone, don’t quite have the profile of a feckless, horrible, city-based entity – Which is a damn shame …
NOMATRIX / FUTURE HATE – Split EP (2021 Dead Lamb Records/Jackhammer Music) Read More
If one good thing has come of underground music in the year of prevailing lurgies, it is that forced inactivity has given some bands the time to take stock of …
PARANOID VISIONS – Re-Pressed Emotions 2XLP (FOAD/Urinal Vinyl 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
At this point, there have been very few Irish punk books – the fragmented written history of it all is represented in print by the Hope Collective’s IN CONCERT book, …
PETER JONES – TO OLD TO DIE YOUNG – PARANOID VISIONS, PUNK ROCK AND ME (Rotator 2020) 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
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 …
RADIATORS – GHOSTOWN 40th Anniversary Reissue – Double CD (Chiswick 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
This record is an interesting proposition, a 12” EP of new material paired with a flipside of peer favourites as voted, suggested and harassed for inclusion via a kind of …
THE LEE HARVEYS – Resistance is not Terrorism – coloured vinyl LP Special Edition Pack (FOAD Records 2019) Read More
