Author: Simon Kirk

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Albums Features

Weirdo Rippers #5

Primitive Motion

Tags A Guide to Saints, AKP Recordings, Bhajan Bhoy, Cardinal Fuzz, Cisser Mæhl, Feeding Tube Records, Hell on Hearth, Hypnodrone Ensemble, John Atkinson, Primitive Motion, Rocket Recordings, Room40, Smote, Sonic Pieces, Wolves and Vibrancy

Album Reviews

Liturgy: 93696

Liturgy (photo: Jessica Hallock)

Tags Leo Didkovsky, Liturgy, Mario Miron, Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix, Refused, Thrill Jockey, Tia Vincent-Clark

Album Reviews

Sleaford Mods: UK Grim

Sleaford Mods

Tags dry cleaning, Florence Shaw, Jane's Addiction, Mark E. Smith, Perry Farrell, Rough Trade, sleaford mods

Album Reviews

Hands Up Who Wants To Die: Nil All

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Post date March 20, 2023
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Hands Up Who Wants To Die (photo: Tom McDermott)

Tags David Pajo, Fonoradar, Hands Up Who Wants to Die, Human Worth, Killdozer, Scratch Acid, Sleeping Giant Glossolalia, Slint

Album Reviews

Bondo: Print Selections

Bondo

Tags Bondo, Doug Scharin, Duster, June of 44, Low, Quindi Records, Slint

News

Interpol announce U.K. shows including Liverpool date

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Post date March 14, 2023
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Interpol (photo: Ebru Yildiz)

Tags Interpol, Matador, O2 Academy

Features Interviews

Michael Plater Interview: “Writing songs is about turning the conscious mind off”

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Post date March 14, 2023
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Michael Plater (photo: Fawnia Mountford)

Tags Bladud Flies, Enclosed and Silent Order, Extreme Noise Terror, Hypostatic Union, John Cale, John Hannon, Julian Wright, Mark Beazley, Mark Kluzak, Michael Lawrence, Michael Plater, Nico Nujumi, Reverb Worship, Stafford Glover, The Doomed Bird of Providence, Tony Millman, Weapon Eyes

Album Reviews

Cober: Beautiful Dissent EP

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Post date March 10, 2023
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Cober - Beautiful Dissent

Tags Cober, East Cape Calling, Sheila Bommakanti

Singles

Video Premiere: Webb Chapel’s ‘Speeding’

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Post date March 9, 2023
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Webb Chapel

Tags Acid Freek, Jerome Avril, Mary Goes Round, Strange Mono, Webb Chapel, Zack Claxton

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #9

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 8, 2023
2 Comments on Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #9

Original images sourced from artists' Bandcamp pages.

Album Reviews

The Necks: Travel

The Necks (photo from artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Chris Abrahams, Lloyd Swanton, Northern Spy Records, Primavera, The Necks, Tony Buck

Features Interviews

Katie Gerardine O’Neill Interview: “I’ve finally tied together a lot of my processes with this album”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 6, 2023
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Katie Geraldine O'Neill (photo from artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Beth Gibbons, Cruel Nature Records, Deadlians, DRR, Dublin Modular, Ecliptic of Culture, Jarboe, Katie Gerardine O'Neill, Little Gem, Open Ear, School Tour, Spilt Milk

Features Lost Albums

Riddle in the Rain: G.W. McLennan’s Fireboy 30th anniversary

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Post date March 3, 2023
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Grant McLennan

Tags Amanda Brown, american music club, Dave Dobbyn, G.W. McLennan, Go-Betweens, Grant McLennan, Lindy Morrison, mark eitzel, Paul Westerberg, Pavement, Robert Forster, Robert Vickers, Stpehen Malkmus, The Replacements, Tom Waits

Singles

Track Premiere: Chuck Johnson reworks Kenneth James Gibson’s ‘The Groundskeeper’

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Post date March 1, 2023
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Chuck Johnson (photo provided by the artist)

Tags Adam Wiltzie, Brian McBride, Chuck Johnson, Jack Dangers, Kenneth James Gibson, Less Bells, Meadows Heavy Recorders, Scanner

News

Supersonic Festival announces 2023 line-up

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date February 28, 2023
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Godflesh (photo via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Album Reviews

Southpacfic: Radar Road EP

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Post date February 24, 2023
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Southpacific (Photo: Dean Tomlinson)

Album Reviews

Algiers: Shook

Algiers (Photo: Ebru Yildiz)

Tags Algiers, Backxwash, Big Rube, Billy Woods, Franklin J. Fisher, Future Island, Jae Matthews, Lee Bains III, Lee Tesche, Mark Cisneros, Matador Records, Matthew Tong, Nadah El Shazl, Run the Jewels, Ryan Mahan, Samuel T. Herring, Zach de la Rocha

Album Reviews

BIG|BRAVE: nature morte

BIG|BRAVE

Tags big brave, Big|Brave, John Bonham, Mat Ball, Robin Wattie, Seth Manchester, Tasy Hudson, The Body, Thrill Jockey

Albums Features

Weirdo Rippers #4

Marlene Ribeiro (photo: Renato Cruz Santos)

Tags Adela Mede, Alaskan Tapes, Austin Cash, Brady Kendall, Cruel Nature Records, Ekin Fil, John Haughey, Landing, Marlene Riberiro, Nettwerk Music Group Inc., Night School Records, re:st, Rocket Recordings, Waxing Crescent Records, Winterwood

Features Interviews

Middleman Interview: “An album is definitely the next goal we’re working towards”

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Post date February 17, 2023
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Middleman (Photo credit: Cole Flynn Quirke)

Tags Brainrotter Records, Greg Sage, Harper Maury, Islands of Love, Lily Pym, Middleman, Mission of Burma, Noah Alves, Self-Immolation Music, The Replacements, Wipers

Album Reviews

Pile: All Fiction

Pile

Tags Alex Molini, Exploding In Sound, Kriss Kuss, nick cave, Pile, Rick Maguire, warren ellis

Album Reviews

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Land of Sleeper

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Post date February 15, 2023
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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs (photo credit: Ania Shrimpton)

Tags Adam Ian Sykes, Black Sabbath, Bonnacons of Doom, Ewan Mackenzie, Iron Maiden, John-Michael Hedley, Kate Smith, Matt Baty, pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs, Pigs x 7, richard dawson, Rocket Recordings, Sally Pilkington, Sam Grant

Singles

Track Premiere: øjeRum’s ‘Silvery White Clouds’

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Post date February 14, 2023
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øjeRum - Coiled Souls

Tags Aidan Baker, øjeRum, Lawrence English, Nadja, Paw Grabowski, Roman Numeral Records

Album Reviews

Bruxa Maria: Build Yourself A Shrine and Pray

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Post date February 13, 2023
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Bruxa Maria

Tags Bear Bites Horse Studios, Big Lad, Bruxa Maria, Dave Cochrane, Gaffa Bandana, Gill Dread, Jennie Howell, Kulk, Paul Antony, Remote Viewing, Riot Season, Robbie Judkins, Wayne Adams

13 Questions

13 Questions with Cor de Lux

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Post date February 10, 2023
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Cor de Lux (photo credit: John Blivens)

Album Reviews

Michael Plater: Ghost Music

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Post date February 6, 2023
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Michael Plater (photo credit: Amy McKenny)

Tags Cornish Wreckers, Crime and the City Solution, dirty three, Ellis Swan, Fawnia Mountford, Ghosts of Electricity, Hypostatic Union, John Hannon, Michael Plater, Patrick DeWitt, Paul Warner, Simon Ward, Stafford Glover, Swans, The Northern Lighthouse Board, The Old Colonials, Tony Millman Mark Kluzek

Album Reviews

Remote Viewing: Modern Addictions

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Post date February 3, 2023
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Remote Viewing

Album Reviews

Loscil // Lawrence English: Colours of Air

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Post date February 2, 2023
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Loscil // Lawrence English (photo credit: CWS Marshall)

Tags Kranky, Lawrence English, loscil, Room40, Scott Morgan, The Old Museum

Album Reviews

Rabbit Hash: Don’t Mistake My Enthusiasm for Impatience

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Post date January 27, 2023
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Rabbit Hash - Don’t Escape My Enthusiasm for Impatience

Tags Blake Conley, Droneroom, Marginal Glitch Records, Pete Fosco, Willy Vlautin

Album Reviews

Meg Baird: Furling

Meg Baird (photo credit: Rachael Cassells)

Tags Baird Sisters, Bill Callahan, Comets on Fire. Ethan Miller, Drag City, Espers, Heron Oblivion, Howlin’ Rain, Mary Lattimore, Meg Baird, Natalie Mering, Sharon Van Etten, Steve Gunn, weyes blood

Books Features Interviews

Community and Culture: An Interview with Orpheus Bookshop’s Garry Newley

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date January 23, 2023
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Tags ACDC, Elvis Presley, Gail Honeyman, Garry Newley, George Orwell, J.K. Rowling, Jack Kerouac, Jeffrey Deaver, Johnny Horton, Kurt Vonnegut, Midnight Oil, Orpheus Bookstore, Robert G. Barrett, Shakespeare, Slim Dusty, Sound Tavern, The Beatles

Albums Features

Weirdo Rippers #3

Kali Malone with Stephen O'Malley and Lucy Railton (photo credit: Chris Fullard)

Singles

Video Premiere: Rabbit Hash’s ‘Natural Chrome’

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Post date January 18, 2023
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Rabbit Hash

Tags Blake Conley, Ciyadh Wells, Droneroom, Marginal Glitch Records, Pete Fosco

Album Reviews

The Spectral Light: 10000 Stars EP

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Post date January 16, 2023
1 Comment on The Spectral Light: 10000 Stars EP

Tags Amanda Votta, BIG ׀ BRAVE, East Cape Calling, Lost Hiss Recordings, Neddal Ayad, The Desolation Singers, the does, The Floating World, the goslings, The Spectral Light

Album Reviews

Winterwood: Wind Music

Winterwood (photo credit: from the artist's Facebook page)

Tags Barnaby Oliver, East Cape Calling, Florina Casettes, Holly Winterwood, photo(sphere), Winterwood, Zac Winterwood

Album Reviews

Worriedaboutsatan: Falling But Not Alone

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Post date January 9, 2023
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Worriedaboutsatan

Tags Aidan Baker, Andy Stott, Capac, Gavin Miller, Jon Hopkins, Massive Attack, Nadja, Pijn, Sulk Rooms, This Is It Forever, Tom Ragsdale, Wolves and Vibrancy, Worriedaboutsatan

Uncategorized

The Don of Destruction: James Ellroy’s ‘Widespread Panic’

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Post date January 6, 2023
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James Ellroy (photo credit: Marion Ellinger)

Tags Al Copone, Black Sabbath, Dashiell Hammett, David Klein, Dudley Smith, Freddy Otash, James Ellroy, Lloyd Hopkins, Raymond Chandler

Album Reviews

Björn Magnusson: Nightclub Music & Ethereal Faith

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Post date January 3, 2023
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Björn Magnusson

Tags Björn Magnusson, bob dylan, Danny Hole, Dean & Britta, Keith Richards, Kid Congo Powers, Luna, Nikki Sudden, Richard Hell, Sean Eden, Specter Fix Press, Suicide, Tapiwa Svosve, The Rolling Stones

Features Interviews

2022 with Defend Vinyl’s Graham Jones

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Post date December 30, 2022
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Defend Vinyl's Graham Jones (photo credit: via the label's Facebook page)

Features Interviews

2022 with Tall Trees Audio Mastering’s Stephen Kerrison

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Post date December 29, 2022
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Stephen Kerrison