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Album Reviews

End Now: Half Live

End Now - Half Live

Tags Cruel Nature Records, Enablers, End Now, Faliure, Helmet, Mission of Burma, Pete Simonelli, Scratch Acid, Stu Ellen, Unwound

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Some Became Hollow Tubes: Unhealthy For Sensitive Groups

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Post date April 21, 2022
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Some Became Hollow Tubes

Tags Aidan Baker, Aidan Girt, Eric Quach, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hypnodron Ensemble, Ripchord Records, Some Became Hollow Tubes, thisquietyarmy

Album Reviews

Droneroom: Whatever Truthful Understanding

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Post date April 20, 2022
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Droneroom

Tags Ben Chasny, Blake Edward Conley, Daniel Bachmann, Desert Records, Droneroom, Dylan Carlson, Jake Xerses Fussell, Six Organs of Admittance

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Spiritualized: Everything Was Beautiful

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 19, 2022
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Spiritualized (photo credit: from the artist's Facebook page)

Tags Bella Union, Fat Possum, Jason Pierce, Kate Radley, spiritualized

Album Reviews

Aidan Baker: You Are All At Once

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 18, 2022
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Aidan Baker (photo credit: Janina Gallert)

Tags Aidan Baker, Bark Psychosis, Broken Spine Records, Coedine, Nadja, Spokane

Album Reviews

Gnod: Hexen Valley

Gnod

Tags Gnod, Head of David, Melvins, Paddy Shine, Rocket Recordings, The Jesus Lizard

Features Interviews

Oren Ambarchi Interview: “The challenge is always striving to do something surprising and new”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 14, 2022
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Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin (photo credit: Thobias F. Idt)

Tags Andreas Werliin, Attila Csihar, Burial Chamber Trio, Drag City, Fire!, Greg Anderson, Hapna, Jim O'Rourke, Johan Berthling, Keiji Haino, Mayhem, Oren Ambarchi, Randall Dunn, Stephen O’Malley, The Necks

Album Reviews

Clara Engel: Their Invisible Hands

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 13, 2022
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Clara Engel (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Clara Engel

Album Reviews

Why Patterns: Regurgitorium

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 12, 2022
1 Comment on Why Patterns: Regurgitorium

Why Patterns

Tags Bear Bites Horse, Big Lad, Dan McClennan, Deleted Narrative, Doug Norton, Human Worth, Kulk, Lightning Bolt, Petbrick, Seb Tull, Thee Oh Sees, Warren Schoenbright, Wayne Adams, Why Patterns, Wren

Features Interviews

Skin Blood Women Roses: An Interview with Jarboe

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 11, 2022
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Jarboe (photo credit: J. Williams)

Tags Consouling Sounds, Godflesh, Jarboe, John Coltrane, Justin Broadrick, Kazimier Stockroom, Michael Gira, Neurosis, Record Store Day, Swans

Features Interviews

Golden Fang Interview: “Sydney’s often lurking in the songs somewhere”

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Post date April 8, 2022
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Golden Fang

Tags Carl Redfern, cleckhuddersfax UK, Golden Fang, Irvine Welsh, Jo Meares Band, Joe Parkins, Justin Tauber, Mervyn Peake, Mirrelle Juchaw, Neal Stephenson, Teo Treloar, The Sins, the smiths, The Sunny Boys

Album Reviews

Wet Tuna: Warping All By Yourself

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Post date April 7, 2022
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Wet Tuna

Album Reviews

Dao Strom: Redux

Dao Strom

Tags Anne Garner, Antiquated Future, Dao Strom

Album Reviews

Swami John Reis: Ride the Wild Night

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Post date April 5, 2022
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John Reis (photo credit: via the artist's Facebook page)

Interviews Features

Sneers. Interview: “We weren’t thinking of a specific situation but a general feeling”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 4, 2022
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Sneers.. (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags nick cave, Sonic Youth, Swans, pj harvey, Father Murphy, Paul Beauchamp, God Unknown Records, Leonardo O. Stefenelli, Sneers., Freddie Murphy, M.G Blaankart

News

Greg Anderson as The Lord Announces Debut LP

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 1, 2022
1 Comment on Greg Anderson as The Lord Announces Debut LP

The Lord (photo credit: Thora Anderson)

Tags Attila Csihar, Engine Kid, Goatsnake, Greg Anderson, Petra Haden, Southern Lord, Sunn O))), The Lord, thor's Hammer

Features Interviews

Track by Track: Claire Welles’ Othello

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 1, 2022
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Claire Welles (photo credit: Rebecca Too)

Tags a.P.A.t.T, Alex Higgins, Claire Welles, Dennis Taylor, Jane Weaver, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Stephen Cole, Steve Davis, the charlatans, tim burgess

Album Reviews

Destroyer: LABYRINTHITIS

Destroyer (photo credit: Nicolas Bragg)

Tags Bella Union, Dan Bejar, Destroyer, John Collins, Merge Records, The New Pornographers

Album Reviews

Barnaby Oliver: My Arms Are Hollow Tubes

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 30, 2022
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Barnaby Oliver - My Arms Are Hollow Tubes

Tags Barnaby Oliver, BBC Wales, East Cape Calling, Elvis Presley, Noir et Blanc, Oren Ambarchi, The Necks

Album Reviews

The Jonny Halifax Invocation: Acid Blüüs Räägs: Vol. 1

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 29, 2022
2 Comments on The Jonny Halifax Invocation: Acid Blüüs Räägs: Vol. 1

Tags Ben Chasny, Dylan Carlson, Earth, God Unknown Records, Greg Anderson, Jason Peirce, Peter Kember, Spaceman 3, Stephen O'Malley, Sunn O))), The Jonny Halifax Invocation