Approaching the new album from UK duo Frauds it came as a surprise, shock even that our introduction to the band through their striking debut album, With Morning Toast & Jam & Juice, was way back in the last throes… Read More ›
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Smiling – Devour
As much as we regularly get tempted to high levels by the craft and imagination of artists and their offerings there are some encounters which continue to nag away until inspiring even greater lustful attention within. Devour the debut album… Read More ›
Ropes Of Night – Impossible Space
One of many wondrous things about music is that from time to time and quite out of the blue comes a release that perfectly fits every want and instinct within one’s personal appetite, an encounter that truly stokes the fire… Read More ›
Harry Stafford and Marco Butcher – Bone Architecture
Having been gripped and enthralled by its first singles, it was inevitable that we would be drawn into the seductively dark and unpredictable realm of Bone Architecture. The exploration of the first album from the collaboration of Harry Stafford and… Read More ›
David Long and Shane O’Neill – Moll & Zeis
With a pair of EPs in Far From Home and Dreams Come still courting the imagination after their release earlier this year, the pairing of David Long and Shane O’Neill offer a bigger and richer proposal in the shape of… Read More ›
The Speed of Sound – Museum of Tomorrow
As September set out its departure, UK indie rockers The Speed of Sound unveiled their fifth album, Museum of Tomorrow. It comes exactly 32 years to the day the Manchester outfit released their debut full-length and swiftly proves that though… Read More ›
Lung – Come Clean Right Now
Though it is obvious, as with life itself, the Covid pandemic brought so many things to a standstill it could not defeat the creativity across the world as proven by music alone where the past eighteen months has given us… Read More ›
Pink Turns Blue –Tainted
Born of a world in decline and on a course of self-destruction, Tainted is the new album from German post-punk/darkwave outfit Pink Turns Blue. Created in a year of lockdown which offered further evidence of abhorrent man made neglect or… Read More ›
Chris Connelly and Monica Queen – The Birthday Poems
Even before a note was heard it is fair to say we were fascinated with the idea and story behind The Birthday Poems, the recent new album from Chris Connelly and Monica Queen. It is a collection of tracks creating… Read More ›
GUHTS – blood feather EP
Nightmarish and severe, a devouring of the senses; that is blood feather, the debut EP from US outfit, GUHTS. It is a predacious tempest of sound and emotion, a trial of torment and atmospheric corrosion honed quite simply into one… Read More ›
