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How to Lose Face and Silverface Twin Reviewed
April 20, 2026
How to Lose Face – Everything Is So Easy
There are some people who won’t ever admit it hurts. You could get a hammer and smash them over the head with it, and they’d still smile and say that they’re Ok. Those people are Northern Europeans. Admitting weakness…
quilium - “can of whoopbass” Review
March 22, 2026
In a dark room somewhere, someone is going blind trying to rewrite James Joyce’s “Finnegan’s Wake” for a modern audience. Further downtown, a retired pensioner has decided to rebuild the Tower of Babel using matchsticks. And, of course, further up town, the most…
Telexer and Slow Code Reviewed
March 9, 2026
Telexer – Outtatime
Can you really fear a monster if you’ve seen it photographed in glorious detail from every possible angle? Can you really muster the enthusiasm to fear the unknown if every step that you’ll take has been mapped out?
Modern music, and…
You and Me and You and Sun Era Reviewed
February 26, 2026
You and Me and You – Dotted Lines
If you believe the gossip going around, or merely trust all of the movies that you’ve ever seen, the people who spend their time with a guitar strapped to their back or behind a drum kit are supposed to be the life of the party…
Fuzzy Feelings - “Under The Pit” Review
January 16, 2026
Ask anyone in the music industry how they plan to sell an act to the world, and they’ll tell you one thing: “Get as much information about the act to the public!” That’s why if you can get a singer on a radio show chatting about what brand of soda they like to have…
Clint Frost and Lucas Delacroix Reviewed
November 4, 2025
Clint Frost – (Interlude)
The way that pop music has been sold and consumed over the years has made us instinctively feel about the people making our favourite songs in the same way that we feel about friends. But we’re wrong!
Most of the greatest songwriters…
Deathcat and Mikey Demilio Reviewed
October 13, 2025
Deathcat – Your Stupid City
Everybody’s trying to be somebody else, and nobody quite believes these sorts of stories anymore. But that doesn’t stop people from dressing up like their favourite rock star, or actor, or learning stories that can keep strangers…
hazy waters and Blue Moondust Reviewed
July 3, 2025
hazy waters – game boy
The whole business with music and, indeed, the music business, is all built on an illusion. And it’s one that can easily be shattered. Modern music is meant to enchant you, to hypnotise you into not wanting to walk away.
But the…
CABIN and LOON Reviewed
June 2, 2025
CABIN – Golden
I am not saying that record labels should have me in when they discuss their next big moves. But I have some ideas. Take, for example, those MTV Unplugged concerts that made the station and the labels so much money on such a little investment. Why did…