Songs

Films

Imprint

Imprint

You know generally when you watch really low budget independent movies the only ones that are any good are those really self referential campy for camp’s sake silly movies, you know the Ed Woo...
Ghost Bird

Ghost Bird

Opening on the boggy marshland of Arkansas, candid voice-overs from the locals of the small town of Brinkley entice us toward the notion that the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, long since thought ex...

Features

Six Organs Of Admittance, Bush Hall, London, 04-12-09

Six Organs Of Admittance, Bush Hall, London, 04-12-09

With two diminutive Christmas trees illuminating either side of the stage of the vaudevillian interior Bush Hall, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that the music and style of Ben Chasny seemed a li...
John Darnielle Interview

John Darnielle Interview

Why these bible verses? It’s back and forth, case by case - there isn’t one “why these taken together”; each one has its own relation to the so...
  • Klang!

    Motorik

    Klang!

    Independent

    I suppose the best way to talk about Klang! Is to call it a sort of funky-punk new wave throw back. As that is pretty much what it sounds like post-punk fun falling right out of the 1980s. W...

  • Albums

    • This is Happening

      LCD Soundsystem

      This is Happening

      Virgin

      Douglas Coupland’s 1996 Polaroids from the Dead begins with ten short stories, about people going to a Grateful Dead concert in San Francisco. It ends with a long, bricaloured essay abou...

    • Forgive Us Our Trespasses

      A Storm Of Light

      Forgive Us Our Trespasses

      Neurot

      Forgive Us Our Trespasses begins with this strange sort of prayer (I guess it is, I don’t really know) – it sounds like a softly spoken prayer, anyway. An ode to chaos written by Lyd...

    • Restored to One

      Sabbath Assembly

      Restored to One

      Ajna Offensive

      In Restored To One, Jex Thoth, has put together an excellent album of hymns from the Process Church of the Final Judgement. The 60’s/70’s era group, based out of New Orlenas and Mexic...

    • A Voice From Four Horns Of The Golden Altar

      The Beast Of The Apocalypse

      A Voice From Four Horns Of The Golden Altar

      Transcendental Creations

      As Genres go, Last Fm’s tags are pretty hit and miss, but when I saw ‘The Beast of the Apocalypse’ had a tag that simply read ‘Pure Hate’, I was hard pressed not to agree with it. Open...

    • Eight Bells

      Subarachnoid Space

      Eight Bells

      Crucial Blast

      Four piece psychedelic outfit, SubArachnoid Space have been going since 1996 and have released a fair few albums in the process, the latest, ‘Eight Bells’ released on Crucial Blast; a label alon...

    • Hawkwind Triad

      Harvestman, Minsk & U.S Christmas

      Hawkwind Triad

      Neurot

      Three heavyweight names in contemporary doom/ psych metal have joined forces to produce a wonderfully thought out and crafted tribute to one the world’s greatest bands of psychedelic yesteryear:...

    • An Index Of Birds

      Carta

      An Index Of Birds

      Silber

      Opening with a deep bassy hum and minimal piano instrumentation, ‘Alfred M’ opens our invitation to the cinematically emotive compositions of Carta on their latest offering, ‘An Index of Birds’....

    • Heavy Breathing

      Black Breath

      Heavy Breathing

      Southern Lord

      Aptly suited for Southern Lord Records though equally under sung as a genre on said label, Pacific North West-based Black Breath weave hardcore and thrash together with brutal shredding and a wh...

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