A good new thing and an old new thing.
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Listen, mate, life has surface noise.
A good new thing and an old new thing.
Read MoreIs it not the most appropriate time to consider the great disaster story The War of the Worlds, as a pandemic continues to sweep the globe, with no end in sight?
Read MoreArt as a response to limitations.
Read MoreDark and morose, ambient and industrial, with occasional contrasts, replicr is an album for particular moods.
Read MoreYeah, need more abrasive bleepy shit.
Read MoreExperientially and holistically, this is a thoroughly enjoyable piece of work of which Grum can be pretty proud of.
Read MoreThe punishment of luxury is in the air for all to see. And it’s ugly now, and it’s getting worse every day. Hey! Hey! Hey!
Read MoreThe band started off pretty firmly in the metal genre, but transmogrified into something that is a cross between math rock and metal, like a love-child of 65daysofstatic and Dream Theater.
Read MoreIf the year was from the ’80s it was guaranteed to totally suck.
Read MoreThis eighteen-month late review of Tears for Fears latest compilation, released in November 2017, absolutely has to be done, for reasons of aesthetic duty if nothing else.
Read MoreDangerous Minds interviews Martin Rev, going through the recording process for the first Suicide album.
Read MoreTrying to write sensible things to describe music is way too much like work. Here are things from the pile that I’ve been enjoying. Press the play buttons and make up some adjectives yourself.
Read MoreMary Byker being precisely the right amount of too clever for his own good is a pleasing surprise when clearing down the review pile.
Read MoreThe review pile is full of alternative buttrock industrial.
Read MoreSome new pre-punk pop-rock, and a remixed favourite.
Read MoreFrom the cellulose nitrate days of music video.
Read MoreAndy Gill’s Gang of One turns out to be a good band making good records. And new Lindy Vision is always a delight.
Read MoreDarkwave disco. I’ve been hanging out for this one, and I’m thoroughly delighted. You will be too.
Read MoreFor those most familiar with the classic synth-pop Gary Numan, this will be quite different. For those who have followed Numan in the past thirty years this is not a surprise.
Read MoreTell you what I love about Steve Albini recordings: the drums.
Read MoreAn indie singer-songwriter and the return of an old favourite with a slab of excellence.
Read MoreMetal Disco is today’s pleasant surprise winner.
Read MoreDew and Irk are both remarkable finds and produce the correct horrible racket, though the loved one compared Irk to a sack of hammers falling down stairs.
Read MorePopular US industrial music has always tended less Throbbing Gristle and more alternative buttrock.
Read MoreAn excuse to get Perth bands into a published record chart, so they’d get some publicity and could use it in their marketing. And to propagandise Australian indie to the masses. Includes THE HITS OF 1989!
Read MoreA party that everyone’s been looking forward to for weeks. They seem to be having a wonderful time.
Read MoreEveryone’s familiar with Lords of Acid at a basic level, right? Dark electronic erotica? Techno songs about fucking? It’s all very nineties. Pretty in Kink was released in May 2018 but still puts out the oldschool LoA vibe.
Read MoreHey, are you interested in letting a couple of women from Osaka just completely melt your fucking brain? If so I have found the album for you.
Read MoreA 10 song album that is everything you’ve been looking for if you’re sad that The Vandals haven’t had a full length release since 2004.
Read MoreWriting about music is the most ridiculous notion, and the review pile is only getting larger. So I’ll give just embedding players and mumbling something a go. This works for me, and that’s the important thing.
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