Categories Album Reviews SQÜRL: Silver Haze Post author By Simon Kirk Post date May 22, 2023 No Comments on SQÜRL: Silver Haze SQÜRL (photo from artist's Bandcamp page) Continue reading “SQÜRL: Silver Haze” 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)))
Categories Album Reviews Khanate: To Be Cruel Post author By Simon Kirk Post date May 19, 2023 2 Comments on Khanate: To Be Cruel Khanate (photo: Ebru Yildiz) Continue reading “Khanate: To Be Cruel” 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
Categories News Boris & Uniform announce new album, ‘Bright New Disease’ Post author By Simon Kirk Post date May 2, 2023 1 Comment on Boris & Uniform announce new album, ‘Bright New Disease’ Boris & Uniform (photo: Ebru Yildiz) Continue reading “Boris & Uniform announce new album, ‘Bright New Disease’” Tags Atsuo, Ben Greenberg, Boris, Mike Berdan, Sacred Bones, Takeshi, Uniform, Wata
Categories Albums Features Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #8 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date November 28, 2022 12 Comments on Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #8 Continue reading “Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #8” Tags 4ad, Artifacts & Uranium, Beth Orton, Bill Frisell, Charlie Butler, Daniel Avery, Daniel Rossen, dry cleaning, Duke Garwood, Echodelick Records, Empty House, Fred Laird, God Unknown Records, Horse Lords, Indigo Sparke, James Johnston, Kasper Bjorke, Kompakt, Lunt, Marisa Anderson, Mienakunaru, Mike Vest, Partisan Records, Phantasy Sound, Preoccupations, RVNG Intl., Sacred Bones, Steve Gullick, The Soft Pink Truth, Thrill Jockey, Warp, Weird Beard Records
Categories Albums Features Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #5 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date March 1, 2022 19 Comments on Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #5 Photo credit: (from artists' Bandcamp pages) Continue reading “Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #5” Tags 40 Watt Sun, A Place To Bury Strangers, A Sunken Mall, Aidan Baker, Animal Collective, Buh Records, Cloakroom, Constant Smiles, Decor Records, Dedstrange, Domino Recordings, Dub Cthonic, Ekin Fil, Empath, Everlasting Records, Fat Possum Records, Fire Records, Glitterhouse Records, Lebenswelt, Lobby Art, Merge Records, Midira Records, Monodrama, Mute, Mydreamfever, Nadja, Old Saw, Ordos MK.0, OuZel Recordings / Under My Bed Recordings, Patrick Walker, Pool Of Light, Relapse Records, Ryan James Mawbey, Sacred Bones, Superchunk, The Delines, Vanishing Twin, Wovenhand
Categories Album Reviews Boris: W – “merging old and new sound worlds” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date January 28, 2022 10 Comments on Boris: W – “merging old and new sound worlds” Boris (photo credit: Yoshihiro Mori) Continue reading “Boris: W – “merging old and new sound worlds”” Tags Atsuo, Boris, Earth, Ian Astbury, ISIS, Merzbow, Michio Kurihara, my bloody valentine, Neurosis, Pelican, Sacred Bones, Sunn O))), Takeshi, the cult, Wata
Categories Albums Features Sun 13’s Top Australian Albums of 2021 Post author By Sean Beardmore Post date December 23, 2021 5 Comments on Sun 13’s Top Australian Albums of 2021 Original image via Unsplash (credit: Silas Baisch) Continue reading “Sun 13’s Top Australian Albums of 2021” Tags A Country Practice, Amyl and the Sniffers, Bedrooms Suck Records, Blake Scott, Broken Stone Records, Civic, CLAMM, East Cape Calling, El Reno, Even, Fantasy Country, Flightless Records, Flyying Colours, Goon Sax, Happiness Records, Imperial Broads, In The Red Records, Indigo Sparke, Liars, Matador Records, Meat Machine, Mere Women, Mess Esque, Mike Noga, MOD CON, Mope City, Mute, Peabrain Recordings, Poison City Records, Pond, Restless Leg, Rough Trade, Sacred Bones, Scientists, Smoke Bellow, Snowy Band, Spinning Top, Tenth Court, Trouble In Mind, You Am I
Categories Albums Features Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #4 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date November 29, 2021 14 Comments on Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #4 Continue reading “Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #4” Tags A Country Practice, Bunkland, Cedie Janson, Chaos Emeralds, Charlie Butler, Constellation Records, Dais Records, Domino Recordings, Dub Cthonic, Dummy, Eraldo Bernocchi, Exploding In Sound, Flowdan, Fotocrime, Fuzz Club, Ghostly International, Happiness Records, HEXA, Hiro Kone, Ill Considered, Jamie Stewart, Jessica Moss, Jon Hopkins, Kill Rock Stars, Kristof Hahn, Lawrence English, Marissa Nadler, Mary Lattimore, Matt Christensen, Nation of Language, New Soil, Ohm Resistance, ONETWOTHREE, Ovlov, PIAS, Profound Lore, Room40, Sacred Bones, Sei Still, Simm, Snowy Band, Swans, The Dead C, The Escalation, Trouble In Mind
Categories Albums Features Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #1 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date March 24, 2021 22 Comments on Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #1 Jane Weaver (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page) Continue reading “Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #1” Tags A-Ton, AD 93, Arab Strap, Carpark Records, Cloud Nothings, Emeka Ogboh, Fat Possum, Fire Records, Indigo Sparke, Jane Weaver, mogwai, Morr Music, Nightshift, Plankton Wat, Positive Jams, Rock Action, Sacred Bones, The Hold Steady, The Notwist, The Weather Station, Thirsty Tigers, Thrill Jockey, Trouble In Mind, Venus Ex Machina
Categories Album Reviews Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou: The Helm of Sorrow EP – “the spark is raging” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date January 15, 2021 3 Comments on Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou: The Helm of Sorrow EP – “the spark is raging” Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou (photo credit: Craig Mulcahy) Continue reading “Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou: The Helm of Sorrow EP – “the spark is raging”” Tags Bryan Funck, Emma Ruth Rundle, Sacred Bones, Sargent House, The Cranberries, Thou
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 Album Reviews Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou: May Our Chambers Be Full – “a union for any progressive metal follower to treasure” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date October 30, 2020 7 Comments on Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou: May Our Chambers Be Full – “a union for any progressive metal follower to treasure” Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou (photo credit: Craig Mulcahy) Continue reading “Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou: May Our Chambers Be Full – “a union for any progressive metal follower to treasure”” Tags Andy Gibbs, Bryan Funck, Emma Ruth Rundle, Sacred Bones, Sargent House, Thou
Categories Album Reviews Uniform: Shame – “a withering coalition of sounds from the darkest pits” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date September 11, 2020 7 Comments on Uniform: Shame – “a withering coalition of sounds from the darkest pits” Uniform - (photo credit: Ebru Yildiz) Continue reading “Uniform: Shame – “a withering coalition of sounds from the darkest pits”” Tags Algiers, Ben Greenberg, Cormac McCarthy, Dashiell Hammet, Deafheaven, Denis Lehane, James Ellroy, Mike Berdan, Randall Dunn, Raymond Chandler, Sacred Bones, Steve Von Till, Sunn O))), The Body, Uniform