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Having had the pleasure of bathing in KEN mode’s particular oily ooze whilst reviewing their last full-length album (2022s ‘Null’) it proved almost impossible to fully grasp what the band were attempting. Re reading the slightly hysterical and hyperbolic praise… Continue Reading →
On paper, Chicagoan avantgarde sludge/post metal quartet Yakuza, (who lest we forget are not some johnny come lately outfit having been around for several iterations of the noise scene they were at the fulcrum of creating way back in 1999)… Continue Reading →
Sitting as always in the office at the end of my garden, looking at the birds and the bees go about their business, blissfully unaware of anything, after what has been a challenging week of work-related bullshit and triviality, I… Continue Reading →
There are times when you just know. When you know that something is right, just and beautiful. When it’s ripe, glowing and succulent. When it glows, pulsates, and engorges. This may sound like the prelude to either an overly dramatic… Continue Reading →
As well as heralding the renewed political manifesto/career of their incumbent political leader Macron, the French have also decided to birth something far more palatable unto the world in the form of the hideously named trio Cleaver. Now it is… Continue Reading →
Parisian four piece, the enigmatically named Anna Sage, seem to come in from the cold, having formed in 2012, released their debut EP in 2017 and then despite a smattering of support slots with such scene luminaries as 68 and… Continue Reading →
As previously mentioned in past correspondence via these hallowed pages, when something comes heralded, trumpeted, paraded through the streets crunching down on every palm frond as it enters town, it sends spasms to the pit of my stomach, expecting the… Continue Reading →
Having just journeyed to Chicago on a work trip, I was amazed at how many music venues and venues playing host to live music there seemed to be. The city seemed to be steeped and influenced by music in a… Continue Reading →
Childish or not, one is always going to throw the words Abstract Tits into an Internet image search and see what artistic results it comes up with. Quite disappointing really but the label in question are apparently Danish and have… Continue Reading →
Another day, another good band from Leeds. Seriously, this city is churning out quality bands even more so than usual, which is saying something considering the prolific nature of the Leeds music scene. This time it’s hardcore/hard rock group False… Continue Reading →
Wondering just how to start this review I went for the tried and tested look up the band name and see if other than as a moniker it has any real meaning and discovered that according to Urban Dictionary it… Continue Reading →
Whoa in your face cover-art on this one that’s guaranteed to make your eyes bleed and listening to the music on this will do the same to your ears too. If this were a stuntman in real life it would… Continue Reading →