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Whispellia and Deadly Spirits Reviewed
October 27, 2024
Whispellia – Weighed Down with Desire – Reborn
Secretly, everyone who arrives for a gig of a band that is just starting out hopes that the band members will visibly appear to be cooler than anyone else who is in the audience. It may be shallow, but the people…
Avalanche Party and hinfort Reviewed
October 27, 2024
Avalanche Party – John Coltrane’s Moscow Skyscraper
People go out to bars on the weekend, maybe to watch a band play or actors say their lines and most of them, secretly, hope that they’ll have the greatest conversation of their lives. Everyone hopes that…
The Roof and The Staleys Reviewed
October 26, 2024
The Roof – Vanessa Jones
At some point, even the mad pop stars who’d chased fame and success with every fibre of their being started wondering just exactly what happens once the inevitable cycle of such a star’s life is over. Do you just go away quietly? Does…
MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES and Unknown Voidz Reviewed
October 26, 2024
MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES – Control
When, not if humanity will fall under the complete command of some nefarious forces, things will go through smoothly. Few will make a fuss. Most will say that they saw it coming. And even the ones who will hold the reins over their…
The Verve - “Urban Hymns” Reviewed and Revisited
October 25, 2024
The Verve finally managed with 1997’s “Urban Hymns” what they’d been promising the world ever since they’d formed – they’d made a transcendent, genre-defying album that put them straight on top of the alt-rock heap. But it proved as…
Flora Cash - “Behind Every Beautiful Thing” Review
October 23, 2024
When it comes to all great artists, the centre can never hold, things can’t stay the way that they were, and change is inevitable. When it comes to some musicians, this is terrible news. After all, rock stars are paid a lot of money to pretend that time has changed…
Blake - "Louder Than Sound" Reviewed
October 23, 2024
Listen, there are plenty of music genres in the world, and the list will only get longer with each new year. But I guarantee you that, if they could, every single band would like to make power-pop records. What? Would writing songs like Big Star, Badfinger, Guided by…
Eolya and Julien Filion Reviewed
October 23, 2024
Eolya – Sál
All great artists are fated to, at one point or another, feel as if they’ve been hard done by fate and that they should have been born at a different time. Indeed, the perceived glory of the past is not something that belongs exclusively to artists.
Shane Rennison and Mt. Misery Reviewed
October 23, 2024
Shane Rennison – Long Road
A pop song is a pop song is a pop song. But, sometimes, against the odds, pop songs happen to be good. Sometimes, they do what they’re supposed to – instantly change your mood and the way your brain cells interact with each…