I’ve always found Jah Wobble’s musical journey far too prolific to follow with any degree of consistency, and my best effort has been to dip into it every couple of …
JAH WOBBLE – Metal Box Rebuilt In Dub – 2xLP (Cleopatra Records 2021) Read More
I’ve always been a bit of a trainspotter when it comes to Neue Deutsche Welle (German new wave). Lack of cynicism, new-romantic pretence and self-consciousness so rampant in English music …
SOFIA PORTANET – Freier Geist (2020 Duchess Box Records) 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
In a world of independent oddities, this is exactly how the humble 7” deserves to be delivered – high-concept, low-frill, electronic punk from the wonderfully named German duo I AM …
I AM THE FLY – I AM THE FLY 7” EP (not on label 2020) Read More
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 …
ZEROPUNKT (formerly ¡NO!) – Bitch Nails – digital single (self-released 2019) Read More
Bow Wow Wow is very much a part of post-punk pop culture at a time when ideas didn’t have to be polished into glossy turds to become pop hits. The …
BOW WOW WOW – Your Box Set Pet, The Complete Recordings 1980-84, 3CD Clamshell Box Set (Cherry Red 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
It has been a long time since I purchased a cassette. I wouldn’t exactly say I’m repellant to the format… from black shelled and orange-labeled BASF LH SMs to ubiquitous …
EXTRAVISION – DEMO cassette (Art For Blind Records 2018) Read More
The last time The Ex issued a non-collaborative album, it was the sonic & political barrage of CATCH MY SHOE in 2011. Cathartic in its colliding rhythms and subtle in …
THE EX – 27 Passports (Ex Records 2018) Read More
This is the limited edition vinyl release of FEELER, an album that was technically launched in early December 2017. Some manner of sleeve manufacturing woe held the physical product to …
ALIEN SHE – FEELER ltd edition 12” Green Vinyl (Art For Blind Records 2018) Read More
