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Album Reviews

Bill Callahan & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: Blind Date Party – “the ultimate homage”

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Post date December 9, 2021
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Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy (photo credits: L - Mabel Cooper; R - Hanly Banks Callahan)

Album Reviews

Cavesnake: Cavesnake – “submerged in mystery and illusion”

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Post date December 8, 2021
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Tags Cavesnake, Cruel Nature Records, Nadja, Oxgoat, Sikander Louse, The Escalation

Album Reviews

MOD CON: Modern Condition – “razor-sharp narratives”

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Post date December 6, 2021
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MOD CON (photo credit: from artist's Instagram page)

Tags Cable Ties, Erica Dunn, Mission of Burma, MOD CON, Poison City Records, Raquel Solier, Shellac, Sleater-Kinney, Tropical Fuck Storm, X-Ray Spex

Features Interviews

Stuart Cook interview: “I love connecting the dots and chasing down influences”

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Post date December 6, 2021
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Stuart Cook

Tags Capac, Eidolon, Matt Parker, Phil Dodds, Stuart Cook, Waxing Cresent Records

Features Interviews

Cold Roads: In Conversation with Mitternacht’s Jonny Davis Le Brun

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Post date December 3, 2021
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Mitternacht

Tags Basic Channel, Cruel Nature Records, Daniel Avery, Emeka Ogboh, GAS, Jonny Davis Le Brun, Mitternacht, Radiohead, Rongorongo, Sigur Rós, Skee Mask, Steve Strode, The Field, Wolfgang Voigt

13 Questions

13 Questions with Shockchords

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Post date November 30, 2021
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Shockchords (photo credit: Phoebe Winstanley - @phoebe_je_suis)

Tags Adrianne Lenker, Amy Cadwallader, Anna Houghton, Ben Russell, Big Thief, Brandon LaBelle, GADZOOKS!, Jack Wait, Jezebel Halewood-Legas, Liverpool Psych Fest, Mark Fisher, Pablo Neruda, Pale Rider, Quarry, Shockchords, Spellling, SPINE

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #4

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Post date November 29, 2021
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Album Reviews

Sunn O))): Metta, Benevolence. BBC 6Music: Live on the Invitation of Mary Anne Hobbs

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Post date November 26, 2021
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Sunn O))) (photo credit: Ronald K Dick)

Tags Anna von Hausswolff, BBC Maida Vale, BBC6, big brave, Bottomless Pit, Greg Anderson, Mary Anne Hobbs, Samantha Keely Smith, Silk Worm, Southern Lord, Stephen Moore, Stephen O’Malley, Sunn O))), Tim Midyett, Tos Nieuwenhuizen

Album Reviews

Richard Dawson & Circle: Henki – “a paradoxical tour de-force”

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Post date November 25, 2021
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Richard Dawson & Circle

Tags Bulbils, Circle, Dio, Domino Recording, Ethel McLennan, Hen Ogledd, Iron Maiden, Janne Westerlund, Julius Jääskeläinen, Jussi Lehtisalo, Mika Rättö, Pekka Jääskeläinen, richard dawson, Sabbath, Sally Pilkington, Sideways Festival, Tomi Leppänen

Album Reviews

P.M. Tummala: Abstractions in Meera – “truly freeing”

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Post date November 24, 2021
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P.M. Tummala

Tags Allen Moore, Chloe Yu Nong Lin, Doshi, Gaitonde, Monastral, P.M. Tummala, Raza

13 Questions

13 Questions with Baron Farg

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Post date November 23, 2021
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Baron Farg (photo credit: Andrew Bates)

Tags 81 Renshaw Street, A Guy Called Gerald, Baron Farg, barry adamson, Bernard Herrmann, Bobhowla, Brian Eno, DJ Premier, DJ Shadow, Dudley Moore, gRAILS, Howard Doupe, John Barry, John Witherspoon, Nils Frahmn, Peter Cook, Robert Alcock

Album Reviews

Reality Goggles: Rememberer – “fractured psychedelia”

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Post date November 22, 2021
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Reality Goggles (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Aging ~ Land Trance, Andrew PM Hunt, Dialect, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Miles Davis, Nick Hunt, Reality Goggles, Stephen Kerrison, Tall Trees Mastering

Album Reviews

Jerome: LP2 – “the duo take post-punk and industrial into new places”

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Post date November 18, 2021
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Jerome

Tags Annalisa Iembo, James Cox, Jerome, Jon Hopkins, Maple Death Records, Massive Attack, Owen Pratt, Stella Mathioudakissought, Underworld

Features Interviews

Enablers interview: “There’s a lot of conflict in our songs on every level”

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Post date November 17, 2021
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Enablers

Tags dAVID hAND, Enablers, Human Worth, Joe Goldring, Joseph F Byrnes, Kevin Thomson, Lancashire & Somerset, Nice Strong Arm, Owen Gildersleeve, Pete Simonelli, Sam Ospovat, Tim Mooney, Timco, Touched By A Janitor, Years

Album Reviews

Claire Cronin: Bloodless – “beautifully cinematic”

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Post date November 16, 2021
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Claire Cronin (photo credit: via artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Claire Cronin, Ezra Buchla, Orindal Records

Album Reviews

Gnod: La Mort Du Sens – “wrecking ball intensity”

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Post date November 15, 2021
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Gnod (photo credit: via Rocket Recordings' Facebook page)

Tags David Yow, Fiona Apple, Gnod, Godlfesh, Kulk, Pavement, Rocket Recordings, Sunn O)))

Album Reviews

GADZOOKS!: Songs From Your Death Bed – “a fantastic beginning”

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Post date November 12, 2021
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GADZOOKS!

Tags Beija Flo, Bill Callahan, Fat White Family, GADZOOKS!, Goat Girl, Insecure Men, Klof Records, Ollie Roper, Tepid Days

13 Questions

13 Questions with Old Man of the Woods

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Post date November 11, 2021
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Old Man of the Woods

Tags Bryan Bruchman, Miranda Elliott, Odd Beholder, Old Man of the Woods, Totally Real Records

Album Reviews

Matt Parker & Stuart Cook: Parallel Vectors – “drones that envelope all four seasons”

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Post date November 9, 2021
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Matt Parker & Stuart Cook

Tags Bowery Electric, Capac, loscil, Matt Parker, Soundtracking The Void, Stuart Cook, The Sight Below

News

Bill Callahan & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy announce the Blind Date Party

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Post date November 8, 2021
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Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy (photo credits: L - Mabel Cooper; R - Hanly Banks Callahan)