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A few more late finds from 2021, the year that keeps on giving, in the shape of cosmic synthology from the technician in da corner, aka Pye Corner Audio, and unashamedly hedonistic party beats from Eris Drew. Plus unsettling ambience from Kansas City producer, Brian Leeds' Pendant alias, and finally some classic 90s shoegaze psyche-rock … Continue reading 21/01/2022 This week I have been mostly listening to…
Back for album number nine, Clinic remain as fiercely idiosyncratic and uncompromisingly odd as they did on their debut album, over twenty years ago. Fantasy Island, according to the press release, sees the band explore the themes of time, music and entertainment and going “...funky disco, broadening their sonic palette with the addition of several … Continue reading Clinic – Fantasy Island (2021) – Album Review
Over the last decade and more, the Chilean born and New York based producer Nicolas Jaar has been subtly rewriting the rulebook on what constitutes electronic music and its many myriad forms. Under his own name and a clutch of aliases and side projects - Darkside being the occasional duo of Jaar and guitarist Dave … Continue reading DARKSIDE – Spiral (2021) – Album Review
It’s impossible to mention Snapped Ankles to anyone who’s familiar with them without being told how excellent they are live. For any band that builds their initial reputation as a formidable live act, transferring that energy and intensity to a recorded album is always going to be a challenge. A challenge which can result in … Continue reading Snapped Ankles – Forest of Your Problems (2021) – Album Review
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. Unlike traditional psyche-rock, which tends to draw its ‘weirdness’ from otherworldly realms, and an appeal to humankind’s connection with nature and the deeper rhythms of … Continue reading Spirit of the Beehive – ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH (2021)
Releasing an album of nihilistically-minded synth-driven psyche and calling it 'Panic Blooms' in 2018 might’ve seemed like a perfectly justifiable reaction to the state of the world at that time. But given the events of 2020, and to be fair much of 2021 so far, it seems comically naive. To be fair to Black Moth … Continue reading Black Moth Super Rainbow – Panic Blooms (2018)
I began writing this review several months ago, but now as 2020 draws to a close and with the prospect of some kind of Brexit finally happening in the new year, I realised I’d better hurry up and finish it. For although Wheeltappers and Shunters is named after a short-lived 1970s TV variety show set … Continue reading Clinic – Wheeltappers and Shunters (2019)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Third World Pyramid
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
The Auteurs - Now I'm a Cowboy
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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are a band celebrated as much for a constant willingness to experiment as for their prolificness, and ability to package their varied musical experiments into coherent and distinctive albums. They hit a creative peak in 2017, when they seemingly attempted to release as many albums as their name has … Continue reading King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Paper Mâché Dream Balloon
It’s very rare that an album really hits the spot on the very first cold listen but this one did for me. On Psychic Data, TVAM (aka Joe Oxley) combines shoegaze, electro, krautrock, industrial and a truckload of analogue synths to produce a sound that's unique but instantly familiar. Effortlessly spanning the boundary between electronic … Continue reading TVAM – Psychic Data (2018)
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