Categories Albums Features Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #6 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date June 1, 2022 3 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 Albums Features Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2021 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date December 17, 2021 26 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 Emma Ruth Rundle: Engine of Hell – “a journey through the marshlands of despair” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date November 8, 2021 2 Comments on Emma Ruth Rundle: Engine of Hell – “a journey through the marshlands of despair” Emma Ruth Rundle (photo credit: Emma Wondra) Continue reading “Emma Ruth Rundle: Engine of Hell – “a journey through the marshlands of despair”” Tags Emma Ruth Rundle, Sargent House, Thou
Categories Album Reviews Deafheaven: Infinite Granite – “a band at their most self-effacing” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date August 20, 2021 1 Comment on Deafheaven: Infinite Granite – “a band at their most self-effacing” Deafheaven (photo credit: Robin Laananen) Continue reading “Deafheaven: Infinite Granite – “a band at their most self-effacing”” Tags American Football, Chris Johnson, cocteau twins, Daniel Tracy, Deafheaven, George Clarke, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Kerry McCoy, M83, Mike Kinsella, Sargent House, Shiv Mehra, The Armed, the cure, Touché Amore, Wolf Alice
Categories Album Reviews Lingua Ignota: SINNER GET READY – “devastating emotional burden” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date August 13, 2021 5 Comments on Lingua Ignota: SINNER GET READY – “devastating emotional burden” Lingua Ignota Continue reading “Lingua Ignota: SINNER GET READY – “devastating emotional burden”” Tags Alexis Marshall, big brave, Emil Amos, Holy Sons, Kristin Hayter, Lingua Ignota, nick cave, Sargent House, Seth Manchester, Steve Von Till, The Body
Categories Album Reviews Alexis Marshall: House of Lull . House of When – “nihilistic portraits” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date July 22, 2021 4 Comments on Alexis Marshall: House of Lull . House of When – “nihilistic portraits” Alexis Marshall (photo credit: Jeremy W) Continue reading “Alexis Marshall: House of Lull . House of When – “nihilistic portraits”” Tags Alexis Marshall, big brave, BIG | BRAVE, Daughters, Einstürzende Neubauten, Enablers, Evan Patterson, Jaye Jayle, Jon Syverson, Lingua Ignota, Oxbow, Sargent House, Scott walker, Seth Manchester, Sunn O))), The Body, The Necks, Young Widows
Categories Album Reviews The Armed: ULTRAPOP – “a museum of ideas” Post author By Simon Kirk Post date April 16, 2021 7 Comments on The Armed: ULTRAPOP – “a museum of ideas” The Armed (photo credit: Trevor Naud) Continue reading “The Armed: ULTRAPOP – “a museum of ideas”” Tags Blood Brothers, Daughters, Sargent House, The Armed, The Dillinger Escape Plan
Categories News Singles Chelsea Wolfe releases new single ‘Anhedonia’ ft. Emma Ruth Rundle – watch/listen here Post author By Simon Kirk Post date February 14, 2021 1 Comment on Chelsea Wolfe releases new single ‘Anhedonia’ ft. Emma Ruth Rundle – watch/listen here Chelsea Wolfe & Emma Ruth Rundle (photo credit: Kristin Cofer) Continue reading “Chelsea Wolfe releases new single ‘Anhedonia’ ft. Emma Ruth Rundle – watch/listen here” Tags Ben Chisholm, Chelsea Wolfe, Cressa Beer, Emma Ruth Rundle, Sargent House, Thou
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 13 Albums We Missed in 2020 – Part 1 Post author By Simon Kirk Post date January 11, 2021 10 Comments on 13 Albums We Missed in 2020 – Part 1 Photo credits: (all original images sourced from artists' Bandcamp pages) Continue reading “13 Albums We Missed in 2020 – Part 1” Tags 100% Silk, Ancient Plastix, Auscultation, Bailter Space, Bedroom Suck Records, Big Blood, Blue Divers, Brock Van Wey, BVDUB, City Slang, Clara Engel, Dope Body, Drag City, Editions Mego, Exhalants, Eyeless Records, Feeding Tube Records, Glacial Soundscapes, Hex Records, Joel Shanahan, King Hannah, Maple Death Records, Mrs. Piss, Paul Rafferty, Sargent House, Surgeon, The Transcendence Orchestra, Willis Earl Beal
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