Categories Albums Features Weirdo Rippers #6 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date April 28, 2023 4 Comments on Weirdo Rippers #6 Ale Hop & Laura Robles (photo: Kasia Zacharko) Continue reading “Weirdo Rippers #6” Tags AKP Recordings, Ale Hop & Laura Robles, Alejandra Cárdenas, Arthur King, Buh Records, Cabbaggage, Consouling Sounds, David Ralicke, Deludium Skies, Dirk Serries, Justin Broadrick, Kranky, Loud As Giants, Mat Colefate, Mia Doi Todd, Mighty Lord Deathman, Peter Walker, Tim Hecker, Veinte 33 Records, Weirdo Rippers
Categories Singles Track Premiere: Less Bells’ ‘Drowned Ground’ Post author By Simon Kirk Post date April 6, 2023 No Comments on Track Premiere: Less Bells’ ‘Drowned Ground’ Less Bells Continue reading “Track Premiere: Less Bells’ ‘Drowned Ground’” Tags Bell Gardens, Dain Luscombe, Julie Carpenter, Kenneth James Gibson, Kranky, Less Bells, Marjorie Fair, Meadows Heavy Recorders
Categories Album Reviews Loscil // Lawrence English: Colours of Air Post author By Simon Kirk Post date February 2, 2023 3 Comments on Loscil // Lawrence English: Colours of Air Loscil // Lawrence English (photo credit: CWS Marshall) Continue reading “Loscil // Lawrence English: Colours of Air” Tags Kranky, Lawrence English, loscil, Room40, Scott Morgan, The Old Museum
Categories Albums Features Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2022 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date December 16, 2022 19 Comments on Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2022 Sticky post Collage by Sam Gill (@samgill82) Continue reading “Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2022” Tags ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, 4ad, Aidan Baker, All Structures Align, Andreas Werliin, Archers of Loaf, Bella Union, BMG, Breathless, Broken Spine Records, Brutus, BUÑUEL, Chat Pile, Clouds Hill, Constellation Records, Cooking Vinyl, Cruel Nature Records, Desert Records, Destroyer, Dine Alone Records, Dischord Records, Drag City, Droneroom, Duquette Johnston, Duster, Earl Sweatshirt, Editions Mego, Ellis Swan, Empty House, Enablers, Esmerine, Exploding In Sound, Fat Possum Records, Golden Chariot Records, Gvantsa Narim, Haress, Hassle Records, Houseplants, Irregular Patterns, Jenny Hval, Johan Berthling, Joyful Noise Recordings, Kal Marks, Kenneth James Gibson, Kranky, La Tempesta International, Late Music, Lebenswelt, Lensmen, Loop, Luke Mawdsley, Matt Christensen, Meadows Heavy Recorders, Merge, Merge Records, Miasmah Recordings, Midira Records, Monastral, Mondkopf, Nadja, Nightingales, Nik Colk Void, Numero Group, OFF!, Oneida, Oren Ambarchi, OuZel Recordings / Under My Bed Recordings, Pan-American, Petra Haden, Preoccupations, Profound Lore Records, Quindi Records, Raum, Reactor, Rocio Zavala, Salisman & His Hermetic Order, Sarah Davachi, Sargent House, Sea Power, Single Lock Records, Soft Abuse, Soulside, Southern Lord Recordings, SPINE, Steven R. Smith, Suede, Swami John Reis, Swami Records, Tan Cressida, Tenor Vossa Records Ltd, The Flenser, The Lord, The Mars Volta, The Reds Pinks and Purples, Tiny Global Productions, Tough Love, Win Big Records, Winterwood, Wrong Speed Records, Yellowelectric, Yoshiwara
Categories Singles Track Premiere: Less Bells’ ‘A Failure of Horses’ Post author By Simon Kirk Post date November 30, 2022 1 Comment on Track Premiere: Less Bells’ ‘A Failure of Horses’ Less Bells Continue reading “Track Premiere: Less Bells’ ‘A Failure of Horses’” Tags Kenneth James Gibson, Kranky, Less Bells, Meadows Heavy Recorders
Categories Albums Features Weirdo Rippers #2 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date November 14, 2022 6 Comments on Weirdo Rippers #2 Continue reading “Weirdo Rippers #2” Tags Blanket Swimming, Christina Vantzou, Cruel Nature Records, Elrond, Kranky, Music for a Nightmare, Rocket Recordings, Shit and Shine, Stuart Cook, Waxing Crescent Records
Categories Features Lost Albums Southpacific: Constance Post author By Simon Kirk Post date August 12, 2022 4 Comments on Southpacific: Constance Southpacific - Constance Continue reading “Southpacific: Constance” Tags Bethany Curve, Graeme Fleming, Highspire, Joachim Toelke, Kranky, my bloody valentine, Phil Stewart-Bowes, Seefeel, SoPac, Southpacific, The Bowery Electric, Turnbuckle Records
Categories Albums Features Landing’s Seasons 20th anniversary Post author By Simon Kirk Post date July 22, 2022 1 Comment on Landing’s Seasons 20th anniversary Landing (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page) Continue reading “Landing’s Seasons 20th anniversary” Tags Adam Forkner, Adam Snow, Adrienne Snow, Ba Da Bing! Records, Bowery Electric, Daron Gardner, Dick Baldwin, John Bent, Kranky, Landing, Loop, Low, Perth Amboy, Phyll Jenkinsin, Polvo, slowdive, Spaceman 3, Surface of Eceon, Unwound, Wade Chamberlain, Windy & Carl, Yume Bitsu, Zelienople
Categories Albums Features Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #6 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date June 1, 2022 16 Comments on Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #6 Photo credit: original images taken from respective artists' Bandcamp pages. Continue reading “Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #6” Tags Astrel K, ATO Records, Broken Spine, Bronzerat Records, Chris Corsano, Colpitts, Constellation, Cruel Nature Records, Cult Of Luna, Drug Church, Duphonic Super 45s, DVANOV, Earthen Sea, Ghost Power, half man half biscuit, Helms Alee, Holy Island, Huercos S. Incienso, HVOB, Improved Sequence, Ivan The Tolerable, Jon Spencer, Jon Spencer & the hitmakers, Kee Avil, Keeley Forsyth, Kranky, Library of the Occult, Metal Blade Records, Michael Flower, P.E., Past Inside the Present, Patricia Wolf, PIAS, Pink Mountaintops, PLOSIVS, Pure Noise Records, R M Qualtral, Rocket Recordings, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Rubber Oh, Sargent House, Sub Pop, Swami Records, The Leaf Label, Thrill Jockey, VHF Reocrds, Wharf Cat Records
Categories Features Interviews Pan-American Interview: “Memory is the place where inward-facing emotion lives” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date February 18, 2022 12 Comments on Pan-American Interview: “Memory is the place where inward-facing emotion lives” Pan-American (photo credit: Luka Nelson) Continue reading “Pan-American Interview: “Memory is the place where inward-facing emotion lives”” Tags Grouper, Kranky, Labradford, Mark Nelson, Pan-American
Categories Albums Features Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2021 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date December 17, 2021 32 Comments on Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2021 Sticky post Original image via Unsplash (Florencia Viadana) Continue reading “Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2021” Tags 20-20-20, AD 93, Aging, Aging ~ Land Trance, Allen Moore, Ben Chasny, big brave, big country, BIG | BRAVE, Bill Orcutt, Black Tempel Pyrämid, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Bronzerat, Charlie Butler, Chris Abrahams, Chris Corsano, Circle, Claire Cronin, Comedy Minus One, Constellation Records, Cruel Nature Records, Damon & Naomi, Damon Krukowski, Daniela Weinmann, David Colohan, David Wurth, Deafheaven, Divide And Dissolve, Domino Recordings, Donovan Quinn, Drag City, Dub Cthonic, Eleventh Dream Day, Emil Amos, Emma Ruth Rundle, Ex-Easter Island Head, FACS, Fading Tapes, Fake Fruit, Fat Cat, Fire Records, Flemish Eye, Fly Pan Am, Full Time Hobby, Gaffa Bandana, Glenn Donaldson, Gnod, Goliath Enterprises Limited, Grouper, Holy Sons, Hominid Sounds, Human Worth, International Anthem, Invada Records, Iron Lung Records, Jeff Parker, Jim White, Joyful Noise, Joyful Noise Recordings, Katuku Collective, Kowloon Walled City, Kranky, Kulk, Land Trance, Light Conductor, Lingua Ignota, loscil, Low, Matt Christensen, Matt Sweeney, Mess Esque, Miasmah Recordings, Midwife, Moin, Monastra, Naomi Yang, Neurot Recordings, New Bums, nick cave, Ninja Tune, Odd Beholder, Ohm Resistance, Orindal Records, P.M. Tummala, Palilalia, Patrick R. Pärk, richard dawson, Rock In Your Head, Rocket Recordings, Rough Trade, Sargent House, Simm, Sinnbus, Six Organs of Admittance, slant, sleaford mods, Southern Lord, Springtime, Stuart Cook, Sub Pop, The Besnard Lakes, The Bug, The Flenser, The Reds Pinks and Purples, The Still, Three Lobed Recordings, Tough Love, Tropical Fuck Storm, Trouble In Mind, Vapour Theories, warren ellis, Waxing Cresent Records, Will Oldham, XIMES
Categories Album Reviews Light Conductor: Sequence Two – “radical colours that pulsate” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date October 29, 2021 3 Comments on Light Conductor: Sequence Two – “radical colours that pulsate” Light Conductor (photo credit: via Constellation website) Continue reading “Light Conductor: Sequence Two – “radical colours that pulsate”” Tags Constellation Records, Jace Lacek, Kranky, Light Conductor, Stephen Ramsay, The Besnard Lakes, Young Galaxy
Categories Album Reviews Grouper: Shade – “a fascinating collection of songs” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date October 21, 2021 8 Comments on Grouper: Shade – “a fascinating collection of songs” Grouper (photo credit: Gordon Ashworth) Continue reading “Grouper: Shade – “a fascinating collection of songs”” Tags Grouper, Kranky, Liz Harris
Categories Features Interviews Constant World: In Conversation with Matt Christensen – Part 2 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date June 23, 2021 10 Comments on Constant World: In Conversation with Matt Christensen – Part 2 Matt Christensen (photo credit: Tim Breen) Continue reading “Constant World: In Conversation with Matt Christensen – Part 2” Tags Brian Eno, Depeche Mode, King Crimson, Kranky, Labradford, Matt Christensen, Neil Young, Sea And Cake, slowdive, Smashing Pumpkins, Spaceman 3, spiritualized, Talk Talk, Tortoise, Wax Trax!, Zelienople
Categories Singles MJ Guider: Matanzas – “darkwave-inspired soundscapes” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date June 17, 2021 2 Comments on MJ Guider: Matanzas – “darkwave-inspired soundscapes” MJ Guider (photo credit: Craig Mulcahy) Continue reading “MJ Guider: Matanzas – “darkwave-inspired soundscapes”” Tags Kranky, Melissa Guion, MJ Guider, modelmain, Seefeel
Categories Album Reviews Loscil: Clara – “sprawling collages” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date June 7, 2021 6 Comments on Loscil: Clara – “sprawling collages” loscil (photo credit: Ben Didier) Continue reading “Loscil: Clara – “sprawling collages”” Tags Kranky, loscil, Primavera, Scott Morgan, Shellac, The Sight Below
Categories Interviews Features Zelienople Interview: “our biggest enemy is cynicism” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date January 8, 2021 21 Comments on Zelienople Interview: “our biggest enemy is cynicism” Zelienople (photo credit: Christopher Michael Hefner) Continue reading “Zelienople Interview: “our biggest enemy is cynicism”” Tags Kranky, Zelienople, Matt Christensen, Mike Weis, Miashma Recordings, Tortoise, Sun Ra
Categories Albums Features Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2020 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date December 11, 2020 59 Comments on Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2020 Sticky post Original image source: Unsplash Continue reading “Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2020” Tags ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Activity, Albums of the year, Albums of the year 2020, Algiers, Andrea, ATO Records, Bad Amputee, Bambara, Baxter Dury, Bella Union, Bruxa Maria, Cohn Corporation, CS + Kreme, Daniel Avery, Dead Oceans, Destroyer, Dine Alone Records, Dis Fig, Dogleg, Domino Recordings, Drag City, Drive-By Truckers, Einstürzende Neubauten, Emil Amos, Emma Ruth Rundle, Epic Records, Epitaph Records, Ex-Easter Island Head, FACS, Family Jukebox, Fiona Apple, Flying Nun Records, Fotocrime, Heavenly Recordings, Holy Sons, Hominid Sounds, Hyperdub, Illian Tape, Illian Tapes, Jehnny Beth, Julianna Barwick, Keeley Forsyth, Kevin Martin, Kranky, Land Trance, Matador Records, Merge Records, Miashma Recordings, MJ Guider, Moses Boyd, Muzz, Ninja Tune, Northern Spy Records, Nuclear Blast, P.E., Pallbearer, Phantasy Sound, Phil Elverum, PIAS, Potomak, Profound Lore, protomartyr, Sacred Bones, Serengeti, Shabazz Palaces, Six Organs of Admittance, Sony Records, The Bats, The Bug, The Flaming Lips, The Innocence Mission, The Leaf Label, The Microphones, The Necks, The Trilogy Tapes, Thou, Thrill Jockey, Torres, Touché Amoré, Triple Crown Records, Trouble In Mind, Uniform, Walter Martin, Warp, Western Vinyl, Wharf Cat Records, Wreikmeister Harmonies, Wrekmeister Harmonies, yves tumor, Zelienople
Categories Features Interviews MJ Guider Interview: “I didn’t set out with a specific inspiration for making the record other than my standard compulsion” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date September 18, 2020 6 Comments on MJ Guider Interview: “I didn’t set out with a specific inspiration for making the record other than my standard compulsion” MJ Guider (photo credit: Craig Mulcahy) Continue reading “MJ Guider Interview: “I didn’t set out with a specific inspiration for making the record other than my standard compulsion”” Tags Bowery Electric, cocteau twins, Julianna Barwick, Kranky, Less Bells, Melissa Guion, MJ Guider
Categories Album Reviews Less Bells: Mourning Jewelry – “an album for solitude to escape everyday burdens” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date August 21, 2020 6 Comments on Less Bells: Mourning Jewelry – “an album for solitude to escape everyday burdens” Less Bells (photo credit: Baha H. Danesh) The second installment from Julie Carpenter reflects on darkness of the past. Continue reading “Less Bells: Mourning Jewelry – “an album for solitude to escape everyday burdens”” Tags A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Bowery Electric, Fennesz, Julianna Barwick, Julie Carpenter, Kranky, Less Bells, Mourning Jewelry