Spirit of the Beehive’s ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH is not psychedelic music in the normal sense of the term, although like most psychedelic music it does make for a disorientating listening experience.
Spirit of the Beehive – ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH (2021)
Tag: Album Review
Andy Stott – Never the Right Time (2021)
Andy Stott's music is defined by the ever-present feeling of friction, the rub of needles bouncing into the red zone on a bank of dials. But this is tempered by a languid sensuality.
Gazelle Twin – Deep England (2021)
At times shocking and at others darkly comic, Deep England is a complex and gripping album.
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There are moments of the kind of sparse and sombre beauty that Godspeed You Black Emperor do so well, balanced by some of the most joyfully rousing music the band have ever released.
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Despite its patchy nature, AAI is worth listening to, and the questions it poses will need answering sooner rather than later, or the machines will answer them for us.
Gacha Bakradze – Obscure Languages (2021)
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Objekt – Cocoon Crush (2018)
Although not all his experiments come off, in Cocoon Crush Objekt has created something distinctly unusual, that defies easy categorisation
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If you want something that sounds superb, hits in all the right places and will get you looking to the future with optimism then Isles is just the ticket.
Tunng – Tunng Presents…Dead Club (2020)
The latest album from British folk collective, Tunng, is part of a much wider project exploring our uncomfortable relationship with death, dying and grief. As one of the band’s lead songwriters, Mike Lindsay says, ‘It’s not even just a record, it’s a discussion, it’s a podcast series, it’s poetry, it’s short stories, it’s an examination.’ … Continue reading Tunng – Tunng Presents…Dead Club (2020)
