Metalworks: AnimalJam and Esprit D'Air reviewed
December 25, 2020
Esprit D’Air – Leviathan
When you think of virtuoso rock musicians, your mind’s eye may still create an image of a kid stuck inside their bedroom practising incessantly in an attempt to learn Eddie Van Halen’s Eruption. While those people, no doubt…
Strange cool: William Steffey and Bad Sauna reviewed
December 25, 2020
William Steffey – Hot Rod Stigmata
There’s something campy and demented about William Steffey’s Hot Rod Stigmata that reminds me of the Butthole Surfers if they could stand still for enough to produce pretty, pop melodies.
In many ways, the tune is…
Expert indie: Alluri and Beige Banquet release new singles
December 22, 2020
Alluri – Endukala
India is a place brimming with music and ideas of all sorts. It should be of no surprise that, beyond the colourful pop and mysterious folk music, we most associate the country with, we’d also be able to find artists indulging their interests…
Psycho-Contempo: The Grasping Straws and Mr. Tyler Larson reviewed
December 21, 2020
Mr. Tyler Larson – Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy
True psychedelic music is lost in a haze of feedback and poor weed. For the most part, psych-rock has been reduced to 2nd rate Black Sabbath groups holding sermons about flying wizards and true forces of…
Culture from your trash: Nasty Party and MANCHO reviewed
December 21, 2020
MANCHO – I Found Out (John Lennon Cover)
MANCHO has set up quite a task for himself. Using his quirky, psychedelic-rock he aims to dissect and put back together with John Lennon’s most bizarre and, arguably best, solo record John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.
Astrolemo – Shifting Darkness
Pink Floyd hated being called space-rock. Yet, deep inside, they must have known that, at least, part of their good fortune down the years, was down to kids buying their records and spacing out for hours while gazing intently at a beam…
Sheer audacity: New singles by Paper Tapes and Rainy Day Cacophony
December 21, 2020
Rainy Day Cacophony – Old Mining Town
Rainy Day Cacophony is your true friend. He has no time for pleasantries or trying to spare your feelings. He tells the truth bluntly and in a way where you can’t help but react.
Those set of values are brought into…
Stop That Ship – Make My Way
Some great tunes are best absorbed through careful, repeated listens. They’re the kind that inspire essays to be written about and a host imitators to try and produce similar sounds.
Other songs are best enjoyed while…
Pop sugar: Subsonic Eye and The Zangwills release new singles
December 19, 2020
Subsonic Eye – Fruitcake
At its best, lo-fi indie-rock is the kind of music made by very resourceful musicians, forced to find their own methods of writing and recording. While it may not contain the ear-candy of some of the pop hits that radio pummels us with, it…