Songs
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2nd Long Street - Jacques Labouchere
Sweet pop song by an an American ex-pat living in Sweden.
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Be Africa - Bibi Tanga And The Selenites
Some very funky African disco music.
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Flulyk Visions - VOICEs VOICEs
Pretty droney dreamy pop from LA. Sort of reminds me of some of the Icleandic sound that was popular around early 2000’s.
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Holiday In Congo (Myd Remix) - Rainbow Arabia
Another great track from LA world-electronic group Rainbow Arabia. This song has a funny video chock full of Michael Jackson references.
Films
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
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
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
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...
Albums
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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’....
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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...
