Category: Sound

Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Loitered Lens: Motley Kunst [Pics]

Sometimes you just can’t help the hawtness of stereotypical gender roles, they constrain and oppress us all. Day in, day out. in. out. in. out. in… Anyway, Motley Kunst are an awesome All...

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Into the Unknown: Sharon Van Etten

As it’s the new year it seems right and proper to look forward, and how nice it is too. What’s even nicer is to get your teeth into some blood-bubbling new music. We look forward to...

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Trailer Trash Tracys: Ester

Painful though it may be to recall, it was summer once. Cool drinks were sipped at pavement cafes, flesh was bared and balding scalps reddened and peeled in the light of the now-forgotten sun....

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Candytree: The Cathode Rain

Candytree have consistently released album for what seems like decades. They exist as something emblematic of persistence. The Cathode Rain is startling is so far as they sound completely rejuvenated...

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DJ Food: The Search Engine

This is the land, where nothing changes, the land of red buses & blue blooded babies, This is the place, where pensioners are raped, And the hearts are being cut, from the welfare state, Let the...

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Peter Wyeth: Humming New Time

Found sounds, field recordings, loops. Grabbing them, bringing them together and making music is only one part of the process. Creating a compelling musical narrative from the components is the...

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fiN: Live

After touring arenas with Incubus, fiN are back 'on the circuit', in this case the intimate surroundings upstairs at north London's Garage. Energised and ferocious, they're beginning...

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Islet: Illuminated People

Islet's Illumiminated People is awash with the self-indulgence of a band who have little to fear from the ignominy of failure. That's the official line at any rate. Famous now for not being...

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Oliveray: Wonders

Geezer Alert! This review contains nostalgic revisionism. The under-thirties – oh ye of predictive texting and sleepful nights unbroken by groggy visits to the loo – will be baffled by...

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Panic Room: Live Review

Panic Room have come a long way since their first live appearances back in 2008. The band  emerged from the ashes of the first incarnation of celtic proggers Karnataka, with that band's...

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Into the Unknown: Death in Vegas

Death in Vegas – Your Loft my Acid After listening to a regularly reliable machine based radio show The Electronic Tonic there it was: The return of Death in Vegas. We all know what happens to...

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Sly and Reggie: Middle Class Dub (Vol.2)

Pity the middle classes. Despised and reviled most vehemently by themselves, condemned by popular opinion to the dull political and personal flabbiness of the middle – in class, in attitude, in...

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Living Room Songs (Olafur Arnalds)

One song each day for a week. Written, recorded and performed live online in October 2011 Olafur Arnalds. ...

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Wino and Conny Ochs – Heavy Kingdom

Scott ‘Wino’ Weinriich is a pretty heavy guy, he makes most metallers seem plastic. Plastic however is both versatile and happy. St Vitus rate as one of the most influential bands in the...

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Black Tusk: Set the Dial

Savannah chooglin metallers Black Tusk put some grind into their sludge grunt. Black Tusk have a shared history along with bands like Baroness and Kylesa apparently they’re mates and have...

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Hellblinki: These Bubbles Come From Ants

Somwhere in the shadowy forest behind the broken-down big-top, something is stirring… a six-legged beast, shuffling and grunting toward the faded carnival lights… it reaches the edge of...

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Mostly Autumn: Grand Opera House, York

York's Mostly Autumn have played an annual hometown showcase gig at the Grand Opera House for several years now. The event has become an annual pilgrimage for their dedicated fans. In the last...

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David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time

With Crazy Clown Time David Lynch presents us with an unusual set of terms that defy non-emotional comprehension....

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Peter Broderick: Music for Confluence

The somewhat fantastical world of Erased Tapes record making continues with Peter Broderick's Music for Confluence. After the happy accident in which Nils Frahm's efforts not to wake the...

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The Kinks in Mono – Retrospective

Ten albums' worth, in mono. Is a Kinks retrospective more to do with to expiry dates on 1960s publishing contracts than with rediscovering lost classics? Because nobody needs to rediscover The...

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Orienteers – Album Review

Sometimes simplicity is bliss. Orienteers are the heavy-lidded lords of a sweet, sleepy land of achingly pretty melodies, peaceful reflection and fuzzy warmth. They seem to need very little to create...

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Charlene Soraia – Moonchild

Charlene Soraia's ability to split her voice into ultra-shrill harmonics is a talent. There was a chap a few years ago with an act entitled 'The Puppetry of the Penis' who was able to...

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Jimmy Gnecco – The Heart (X Edition)

Any album by a band's vocalist going solo needs to justify its existence by revealing some sort of personal vision, some characteristic that wouldn't be found on work by the band. Searching...

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Mike Patton – The Solitude of Prime Numbers

The Solitude Of Prime Numbers by Mike Patton is out now on Ipecac...

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Heather Findlay and Chris Johnson – ‘Live at the Cafe 68’ – Review

Recorded before an intimate audience of just thirty people, 'Live at the Café 68' is York singer-songwriter Heather Findlay's second release since leaving as lead singer of...

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FZV – Soundsump

The shadowy producer known only as FZV is a long-term, low-profile participant in London's Pitchless Sound System and has often played at underground events in temporary spaces. Operating in the...

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Autumn – Cold Comfort

Autumn tweak their heavy rock roots and embrace 'progressive musical genres and alternative approaches' Oo err! Cold Comfort is the Dutch six-piece Autumn's fifth full-length album. While...

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Jimmy Gnecco – The Heart: X Edition

Any album by a band's vocalst going solo needs to justify its existence by revealing some sort of personal vision, some characteristic that wouldn't be found on work by the band. Searching...

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Into The Unknown: Crushed Beaks – Think Lucky

For the first time in this position I didn’t have anything in mind for this article. Usually something is on the tip of my audio tongue. Not this month. It left me in quite an exciting position...

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King Midas Sound – Without You

King Midas Sound's Without You bathes in beefy bass. Dark, off-kilter bass music. Hyperdub Records are justifiably famous for it. Steve Goodman's London label has been dropping achingly edgy...

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