Brooklyn band Lathe Of Heaven ‘s new album Aurora soaks up postpunk influences like Killing Joke and The Cure, while retaining a metallic sheen. It’s remarkably intimate, even as it tilts skywards. Thematically it’s business as usual: drawing from sci-fi and global collapse, trying to find beauty and hope, surging ahead despite our divided andContinue reading “Album Review: Lathe Of Heaven – Aurora”
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Album Review: SPELLING- Portrait Of My Heart
How you perceive this album will very much depend on your liking for eighties nostalgia. Still only in her thirties, Californian artist Chrystia ‘Tia’ Cabral mines the era, despite not having grown up then. Cabral has an incredible, beautifully soulful voice,and the production quality is undoubtedly high. However, tracks like ‘Alibi’ feel like the worstContinue reading “Album Review: SPELLING- Portrait Of My Heart”
Album Review: Molchat Doma- Balaya Palosa
The Belarus trio, who recently relocated to Los Angeles, have crafted a subtle and complex piece of darkwave here. It’s music which is perfect for travelling home on trains as dusk gathers in crowded cities. Take your pick which city. This album is concrete and neon, dark and ominous. It’s rather beautiful too. The plethoraContinue reading “Album Review: Molchat Doma- Balaya Palosa”
Album Review: Xmal Deutschland – Early Singles (1981-1982)
It’s strange, but Xmal Deutschland seemed to suffer the same fate as other cult bands like The Stooges, Suicide and Velvet Underground – they didn’t sell many records when they began, but gradually became more influential with time. Bands like Warpaint, VR Sex, Current Affairs and Savages owe them a debt- they definitely share aContinue reading “Album Review: Xmal Deutschland – Early Singles (1981-1982)”
Album Review: Squrl- Silver Haze
There is mood music, then there’s mood music. Squrl, who are comprised of legendary film director and musician Jim Jarmusch and mega film producer and musician Carter Logan, plus some special guest collaborators, have made an exquisite, shimmering noise here in their first full-length studio album. It’s full of their trademark churning, psychedelic rock swirls,Continue reading “Album Review: Squrl- Silver Haze”
Album Review: Todo Muere
Be still, my goth heart. This compilation from Sacred Bones is the best of experimental, psych, drone and noise music. It’s a drop of the dark stuff. Boris, the Japanese noise legends do a slinky take on Jim Jarmusch’s Squrl from Only Lovers Left Alive, and like the titular vampires Adam and Eve, it’s faithfulContinue reading “Album Review: Todo Muere”
Album Review: Boris-W
For well over two decades, Japanese experimental doom band Boris have been treading their own path, through line-up and label changes. Too avant-garde for the mainstream, they nonetheless have a loyal fan- base, not least because of working alongside collaborators like Sunn 0))). This, their first album for Sacred Bones, has enough light and shadeContinue reading “Album Review: Boris-W”
Music News: Boris Have Signed To Sacred Bones
Dream team! Legendary Japanese doom rockers Boris have just signed to the brilliant label Sacred Bones. First single Drowning By Numbers is out now and it’s a brilliant, psychedelic layered dirge. They’re the only acceptable Boris to listen to these days. #satire A new album follows in 2022.
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