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Sense of it all: McDEAD and Square reviewed by Alt77
August 28, 2021
Square – The World Is Square
Genre: Post-Punk, Art Rock, Alternative Rock
People don’t particularly take to others who like to live by themselves undisturbed, working on some sort of secret project. You always hear that they were quiet. That is, at least…
Hot Mustard – Window Seat
Genre: Indietronica, Indie Electronic
Similar artists: Budos band, Antibalas, Daptone, Menahan street band, Dap Kings
The DJ culture has done more for the world of popular music than some of us might think. One of their greatest…
Dadanaut – Zeitknistern
Genre: Progressive Rock, Classic Rock, Psychedelic Rock
The thing about Krautrock is that it was not only very good when the name first began being used by snarky British critics. It’s also vital to consider that history looks at the…
Rum Buffalo – Slumtown Nightmare
Premiere
Genre: Post-Punk, Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
Did Mark E. Smith or Howard S. Rowland go to school to learn to make the kind of music they ended up creating? Did they spend a lot of time prior to their groups analyzing…
Peter Gabriel’s madcap music vision made him a hero among prog-rock fans during the 1970s. Later, in the 1980s, he became a mainstream pop star. Even later, he was revered as an elder spokesman of intelligent pop music.
Yet, there is a period in Peter…
The coarse and the refined: Lewca and PEEK reviewed
March 19, 2021
Lewca – Young & Foolish
The last time that we visited Lewca’s world, he was busy making fun, loud, silly, laddish punk rock with a modern twist. Little has changed. The man himself remains as misanthropic as ever. He’s not here to make friends, but…
Fresh Squeeze – Tower of God
I was in the supermarket today, unable to avoid the pop hits being played on the store radio. Don’t judge me! I was hungry. Suddenly, after what felt like an endless selection of vacuous nonsense a very serious voice broke through.
Eyes to the horizon: Rife and Muzikm4n reviewed
February 12, 2021
Muzikm4n – There Must Be Some Other Way
By the time that Genesis realized just what they’d done to their musical careers while they were busy having pop hits and filling stadiums all over the world, it was too late. As is often the case, prog rock’s desire…
White Walls - Starfish Crown (Review)
September 5, 2020
White Walls, Romanian upstars, sound as if a drama student tricked a metal band into letting him join the group and flesh out their songwriting. It’s art metal of a djenty variety, as can be observed by their single “Starfish Crown”, and, especially, by the…