Peak playing with the things that you aren’t supposed to do with music.
Continue reading “Dolores Mondo Stash – From Fragments Of Endeavour [Album Review]”Pound Land – Violence [Album Review]
Pound Land have somehow perfectly represented the state of the United Kingdom in audio form, which is as bleak and worryingly relatable, yet furiously beautiful as you could possibly imagine.
Continue reading “Pound Land – Violence [Album Review]”The Mortlake Bookclub – Exquisite Corpse/Mysteriorum Libri Quinque [Album Review]
If you have read many of my reviews, you may be aware that I have sleep deprived nights, in which I tend to stick my earphones in and listen to something that I am listening to for review (that or Type O Negative). With the more experimental/art rock albums, they tend to suit that time of night. However, The Mortlake Bookclub have managed to create something that completely warps your head at 3am like a really bad trip, to the point that I jumped and threw my earphones on the floor. I love it!
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Lovely Wife – Live & Contrived [EP Review]
There are a lot of bands out there that like to use the fact that they are a “live band” as a staple, like that places them above and beyond anyone else. Then there are bands like Lovely Wife, whose sound is so wildly abstract that trying to translate what they do into a studio recording just doesn’t do them justice.
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Buzz Rodeo – Sports [Album Review]
One thing immediately stood out for me with Sports; those guitars. So much so that I am getting straight to them in the introduction. At times, such as the within Sound Of The Universe, the tone and reverberation sound like they belong in an old 60’s/70’s record. At others, they almost drive the entire song on their own. And the rest they just power the album’s biggest moments.
