If we had to describe the sound and releases of UK experimental post-punks GIRLS IN SYNTHESIS in three words, uncompromising, uncomfortable and addictive would be the answer. As proven across previous tracks, EPs, compilation and a fiercely acclaimed debut album,… Read More ›
The Fall
Weimar – Dancing On A Volcano
If you had cast ears over the two singles from UK outfit WEIMAR so far this year, one the lead track for their debut album, you could not escape their open individuality to each other and pretty much anything around… Read More ›
Salo – From Melmac With Hate
When sparking our instinctive appetite for noise rock/punk, leaving our ears ringing and imagination exhausted is a requirement and with ease we can say that From Melmac With Hate, the new album from French noise mongers Salo did that and… Read More ›
James Domestic – Faze Out
James Domestic – Faze Out The hardcore scene has never settled in voice and invention over the years and that is especially so of UK hardcore over the past decade. In fact that particular hunger and appetite to push creative… Read More ›
The twin temptation of Massa Confusa and Not Myself
With a common bond between the two, we recommend a couple of potent new tracks from Massa Confusa and Not Myself. The link is Ally Morton, a Durham hailing, Spain living vocalist/multi-instrumentalist/producer who across the two projects is behind a… Read More ›
Engine Summer – Back-Street Boys
Suckers for idiosyncratic hooks, irregular rhythms, and drone back grooves which nag their way into the psyche, it was inevitable that the new EP from Chicago hailing trio, Engine Summer, would have us dangling from its aberrant antics and warped… Read More ›
The Beauty of Noise: The Gaa Gaas Interview
As a fresh decade takes its first breath there was only one place to start a new series of interviews with some of the most exciting independent bands and artists and that was with one of our major faves here… Read More ›
Embracing the discord: the Matt Finucane Interview
Hi Matt and thank you for sparing time to chat with us. Glad to. Thanks for asking. Could you first introduce yourself and tell us how your musical presence came to be? It’s the old, old story: this never-ending mission… Read More ›
Punching Swans – Faces
If you have allowed the boisterous noise and feral enterprise of Punching Swans to trespass ears before you will not be surprised to read that as maturity and a new bold touch embraces their latest release, their cacophony of sonic… Read More ›
Idles – Brutalism
An infestation of the senses, a raw roar on all our responsibilities, and a contagious noise fuelled trespass on everything in between, Brutalism is one of the essential incitements of not only 2017 but we would suggest the decade as… Read More ›