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Album Reviews

Charbel Haber & Fadi Tabbal: Enfin la nuit

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Post date June 8, 2023
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Charbel Haber and Fadi Tabbal (photo via artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Asil Ensemble, At Tunefork, Charbel Haber, Fadi Tabbal, Field Works, Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra, Julia Sabre, Kranky, Malayeen, Nadim Tabet, Nahal Recordings, Oiseaux-Tempête, Scrambled Eggs, The Bunny Tylers, The Incompetents, Youmna Saba

Album Reviews

Godflesh: Purge

Godflesh (photo: Kim Sølve)

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #10

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Post date June 5, 2023
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Illustration by Jenny Higham (IG: @jennyh_illustration)

Tags Arrowhawk Records, Billy Woods, Binge, Cash Savage and the Last Drinks, Country Westerns, Cruel Nature Records, David Moore, Dine Alone Records, Display Homes, Doc Sleep, Echodelick, Ensaña, Erste Theke Tontrager, Fat Possum, Fat Possum Records, Glitterhouse Records, Guardian Singles, Healthyliving, Ipecac Recordings, Jeffrey Silverstein, Joel Harries, Kenny Segal, Lankum, Lichen Slow, Malcolm Middleton, Matt Christensen, Modoki, Nadsat, Omnibadger, Overdrive S.R.L., Palilalia, Repetidor, Riot Season, Rock Action, Rough Trade, RVNG Intl., Shit and Shine, Single Mothers, Speakeasy Studios SF, Spotlights, Steve Gunn, Surgeon, Tartelet Records, Terry, The Golden Gaytimes, The Lost Days, The State51 Conspiracy Ltd, Tresor Records, Trouble In Mind, Upset The Rhythm, Warp, yves tumor

News

KEN mode announce new album

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Post date June 2, 2023
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KEN mode (photo: Brenna Faris)

Tags Atroffact Records, Jesse Matthewson, KEN mode

Features Interviews

Gvantsa Narim Interview: “I always try to express my own opinion”

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Post date June 2, 2023
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Gvantsa Narim (photo: Irakli Bakuradze)

Tags Andy Stott, Cruel Nature Records, Enigma, Gvantsa Narim, Irakli Bakuradze, Khidi and Bassian, Tedo Rekhviashvili

Live

The Burning Hell, Steven Lambke, Jake Nicoll @ Jimmys, Liverpool – 30/05/2023

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Post date June 1, 2023
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The Burning Hell (photo: Simon Kirk)

Tags Ariel Sharratt, Bruce Springsteen, Jake Nicoll, Jimmys, Mathias Kom, Steven Lambke, The Burning Hell, You've Changed Records

Albums Features

Weirdo Rippers #7

Wolf Eyes

Tags Alan O'Boyle, Barry Murphy, Christopher Connor, Craven Faults, Cruel Nature Records, Dead Rider, Disciples, Drag City, Eijira Woon, FEND, Gayle Borgan, Matt Espy, Of One, Pefkin, Stephen Gethings, The Leaf Label, Wolf Eyes

Album Reviews

Monde UFO: Vandalized Statue to be Replaced with Shrine

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Post date May 30, 2023
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Monde UFO

Tags Fugazi, James Ellroy, Kern Haug, Kris Chau, Monde UFO, Quindi Records, Ray Monde, Stereolab, Sun Araw, Vanishing Twin

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JAAW Interview: “It was completely stress free”

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Post date May 26, 2023
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Tags Adam Betts, Andy Cairns, Big Lad, Bjork, Bonnacons of Doom, Bruxa Maria, Death Pedals, Goldie, JAAW, Jason Stoll, KLÄMP, Mugstar, Petbrick, Sex Swing, Shellac, Squarepusher, Therapy?, Three Trapped Tigers, Wayne Adams

Album Reviews

Cyrus & Oz: Ephemera Collection 18-19

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Post date May 25, 2023
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Cyrus & Oz (photo: Kaela Campanella)

Tags Blake Parker, Catherine Christer Hennix, Cyrus & Oz, Explosions In The Sky, Labradford, Michio Kurihara, Ramble Records, Trespass Field, Wolf Eyes

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Waterflower Interview: “I draw inspiration from the beauty of nature”

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Post date May 24, 2023
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Waterflower (photo: Eldar Fano)

Tags ARCAE, Bjork, Cruel Nature, Cruel Nature Records, Evannier, FKA twigs, Sabine Moore, SOPHIE, Waterflower

Album Reviews

SQÜRL: Silver Haze

SQÜRL (photo from artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Anika, Boris, Carter Logan, Charlotte Gainsborg, Earth, jim jarmusch, Marissa Nadler, Philip K Dick, Randall Dunn, Sacred Bones, Six Organs of Admittance, SQÜRL, Steve Von Till, Sunn O)))

Album Reviews

Khanate: To Be Cruel

Khanate (photo: Ebru Yildiz)

Tags Alan Dubin, Blind Idiot God, Boris, Earth, Gnaw, High on Fire, Ian Christie, Insect Ark, ISIS, James Plotkin, Jodis, Khanate, Krallice, Sacred Bones, Stephen O’Malley, Sunn O)))), Tim Wyskida

Singles

Video Premiere: Mondkopf’s ‘Phased Harmony 1’

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Post date May 19, 2023
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Mondkopf (photo credit: Frédérd D. Oberland)

Tags Miasmah Recordings, Mondkopf, Orbel, Paul Régimbeau, Sonic Pieces

Album Reviews

Califone: Villagers

Califone

Tags Ben Massarella, Brian Deck, Bruce Springstee, Califone, Jealous Butcher, Max Knouse, Michael Krassner, Rachel Blumberg, Red Red Meat, spiritualized, Tim Rutili

Singles

Track Premiere: Film 2’s ‘Welt’

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Post date May 17, 2023
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Film 2 (photo: Giulia Spek)

Tags BlauBlau Records, Bowery Electric, Elias Bieri, Elischa Heller, Föllakzoid, Film 2, Jonas Albrecht, Tarentel

Albums Features

Label Watch: Ramble Records

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Post date May 15, 2023
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Glass State: In Conversation with Sweet Williams’ Thomas House

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Post date May 12, 2023
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Thomas House (photo: Gabriela Soto)

Album Reviews

Ky: Power Is The Pharmacy

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Post date May 11, 2023
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Ky (photo: Stacy Lee)

Tags Big|Brave, Bosque Rojo’s Andrés Salas, Constellation, David Lynch, Egyptian Cotton Arkestra, Farley Miller, Femmaggots, Gong Gong Gon, James Goddard, Joni Sadler, Joshua Frank, Ky Brooks, Lungbutter, Mat Ball, Nag, Nick Schofield, Shining Wizard, William Gibson

Album Reviews

Markus Guentner: Onda

Markus Guentner

Tags Affin, Bohren & de Club of Gore, Brock Van Wey, Fennesz, Julia Kent, Kompakt, loscil, Markus Guentner, Rafael Anton Irisarri

Album Reviews

Artifacts & Uranium: The Gateless Gate

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Post date May 9, 2023
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Artifacts & Uranium

Tags Artifacts & Uranium, Echodelick Records, Empty House, Fred Laird, Loop, Mike Vest, Nigel Adams, Robert Hampton, The Stooges

Album Reviews

Trio Not Trio: Yn Gyntaf

Trio Not Trio - Stacy Taylor, John Colpitts and Aidan Baker (photos via artists' Bandcamp pages)

Album Reviews

Infinite River: Prequel

Infinite River (photo via the band's Bandcamp page)

Album Reviews

Pallbearer Industry: Antarctica Rising

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Post date May 3, 2023
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Pallbearer Industry (original image via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Alastair Galbraith, Disciples, Hundred Dollar Band, Jessica Pratt, Maxine Funke, Michael Dooley, Snapper, The Beaters, The Rip, The Snares

News

Boris & Uniform announce new album, ‘Bright New Disease’

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Post date May 2, 2023
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Boris & Uniform (photo: Ebru Yildiz)

Tags Atsuo, Ben Greenberg, Boris, Mike Berdan, Sacred Bones, Takeshi, Uniform, Wata

Album Reviews

Maxine Funke: River Said

Maxine Funke

Tags Alastair Galbraith, Disciples, Hundred Dollar Band, Jessica Pratt, Julie Byrne, Maxine Funke, Michael Dooley, Snapper, The Beaters, The Rip, The Snares

Albums Features

Weirdo Rippers #6

Ale Hop & Laura Robles (photo: Kasia Zacharko)

Album Reviews Features

Cosmic Cowboy: The Month with Droneroom

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Post date April 27, 2023
6 Comments on Cosmic Cowboy: The Month with Droneroom

Droneroom

Tags Blake Conley, Blake Edward Conley, Droneroom, Dylan Carlson, Earth, Echodelick Records, Histamine Tapes, Imploding Sounds, Marginal Glitch Records, Pete Fosco, Rabbit Hash, Ramble Records, Sunn O)))

Album Reviews

Ozmotic | Fennesz: Senzatempo

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Post date April 26, 2023
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Tags Andrea Ayassot, Christian Fennesz, Domenico Caliri, Federico Marchesano, Fennesz, King Midas Sound, Nelide Bandello, Ozmotic, Paolo Porta, SmZ, Stanislao Lesnoj, Touch

Album Reviews

Winterwood: Exploratory Guitar: Cavelands

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Post date April 25, 2023
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Winterwood (photo credit: provided by the artist)

Tags Blake Conley, Droneroom, East Cape Calling, Holly Winterwood, Neil Johnstone, Winterwood, Zac Winterwood

Album Reviews

Sudden Voices: Sudden Voices

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Post date April 24, 2023
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Sudden Voices

Tags All Structures Align, Bark Psychosis, Bellowhead, Ben Morris, Map 71, Miles Davis, Morris, Sudden Voices, These New Puritans, Union Wireless, Wild Beasts

Album Reviews

Orme: Orme

Orme

Tags Chea Griffin Anker, Electric Wizard, Everest Queen, Greg Anderson, Jimmy Long, Luke Thelin), Matt Pike, Orme, Praetorian, Sleep, Stephen O’Malley, Sunn O))), Tom Clements, Trepanation Records

Features Interviews

No Restrictions: 10 Years with Cruel Nature Records

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Post date April 20, 2023
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Cruel Nature's Steve Strode

Tags Aaron Lock, Aidan Baker, All The Heavens Were A Bell, Arthur Arsenne, At The Heart Of It All, Beckton Alps2, Blast First, Charlie Butler, Chris Tate, Clara Engel, Cruel Nature, Darren Hubbard, David Colohan, Disciplinary; Tibshelf, Distraction Records, d_rradio, Emil Beaulieu, Empty House, FRAG, Gvantsa Narim, Haunted Trail, Head of David, Holy Island, James Watts, Jazzfinger, K of ARC, Katie Gerardine O’Neill, Kitchen Cynics, Lovely Wife, Lump Hammer, Matching Head, Mike Vest, Mirrored Lips, Nathalie Stern, Nick Harris, No-Fi, Omnibadger, One Key Magic, Panurus Productions, Petrine Cross, Pound Land, Protect and Survive, Prurient, records, Salisman, Score, Slampt, Sound Rooms, St James Infirmary, Stephen Burroughs, Steve Strode, Summer Night Air, TANKENGINE, Toby Henderson Trust, VHS¥DEATH, Whirling Hall of Knives

News

Oxbow announce new album, ‘Love’s Holiday’

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Post date April 18, 2023
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Oxbow (photo: Phil Sharp)

Tags Eugene S. Robinson, Kristin Hayter, Lingua Ignota, Oxbow

Album Reviews

ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT: “Darling The Dawn”

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Post date April 18, 2023
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ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT (photo: Michele Fiedler Fuentes)

Tags ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT, Ariel Engle, Black Ox Orchestra, Broken Social Scene, Constellation Records, Efrim Manuel Menuck, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, GY!BE, Jace Lasek, Jessica Moss, La Force, Liam O’Neill, nick cave, Suuns, The Besnard Lakes, Thee Silver Mt Zion, Thee Silver Mt. Zion, warren ellis

Albums Features

Outer Limits: The Bailter Space Experience

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Post date April 17, 2023
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Bailter Space (photo: Jono Rotman)

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Be Forest: An Interview with Xylouris White

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Post date April 14, 2023
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Xylouris White (photo: Anna Faragona)

Tags Bill Callahan, Chan Marshall, dirty three, Drag City, Fugazi, Gareth Liddiard, George Xylouris, Guy Picciotto, Jim White, Marissa Anderson, Rites of Spring, Springtime, Xylouris White

Album Reviews

The Declining Winter: Really Early, Really Late

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Post date April 13, 2023
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The Declining Winter (photo: via the artist's Facebook page)

Tags Fiona Apple, Home Assembly Music, Hood, Jason Pierce, Mark Hollis, Richard Adams, Talk Talk, The Declining Winter

Features Interviews

Laura Loriga Interview: “The work of others can only enrich what we do”

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Post date April 12, 2023
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Laura Loriga (photo: Quetzal Maucci)

Album Reviews

Empty House: Secret Suburbia

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Post date April 11, 2023
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Empty House - Secret Suburbia

Tags Artifacts & Uranium, Broken Social Scene, Earthling Society, Empty House, Fred Laird, Haruki Murakami, john peel, Mike Vest, Taras Bulba, The Fall, Wormhole World Records