ALBUM: JON SPENCER – SPENCER SINGS THE HITS

Would you like some raw rock n’ roll guitar energy blasting into your eardrums this autumn? Jon Spencer is back in a different form, but still not a million miles away from his previous musical incarnations with The Blues Explosion, Boss Hog or Heavy Trash, which is no bad thing. This is Spencer solo though, […]

Calvin Johnson for many is the definition of U.S. indie, with his musical projects from Beat Happening in the early 1980s, Halo Benders and Dub Narcotic Sound System in the 1990s, a vast array of solo albums and collaborations, plus being the founder of the legendary indie label, K Records, in Olympia, Washington. Apparently Kurt […]

ALBUM: CALVIN JOHNSON – A WONDERFUL BEAST

ALBUM: JIM JAMES – UNIFORM CLARITY

Songs can have many versions, throughout history people have always covered another person’s tunes, from the Victorian music halls to the bands of today, and sometimes it’s the cover version which ends up being just as appreciated as the original. From Jeff Buckley’s vs. Leonard Cohen’s versions of ‘Hallelujah’ to Jimi Hendrix’s vs Bob Dylan’s […]

Operating in a similar dream pop hazy world as Slowdive, Boards Of Canada and Four Tet, hailing from Argentina and singing in her native Spanish, Sobrenadar creates gentle soundscapes which waft out of the speakers and grab your attention in the most subtle way possible. She’s already had remixes from the likes of Gwenno, Xam […]

ALBUM: SOBRENADAR – Y

ALBUM: SPIRITUALIZED – AND NOTHING HURT

Apparently this was going to be the last album Jason Pierce (J Spaceman) was ever going to make as Spiritualized, such was the sheer effort involved, both mentally and physically. Six long years in the making, ‘And Nothing Hurt’ is the sound of the spaceman coming to terms with life as a middle aged family […]

Riddled with angst, Sauna Youth express their feelings in a quite British 70’s fashion, spitting South East accent vocals over a ‘The Jam’ like setup. This, a follow-up to their 2015 debut album ‘Distractions’ strikes a similar chord, but they’re still pushing the envelope. The album explores the theme of death in a very literal […]

ALBUM: SAUNA YOUTH – DEATHS

ALBUM: IDLES – JOY AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE

– A Celebration of Vulnerability – The highly anticipated second album by Idles is pure vigour underneath a bunch of songs where the guts, the cries and the sing & shout still prevail from their outstanding debut Brutalism. The Bristol based outfit’s new record, Joy as an Act of Resistance, is due on Friday 31st […]

Charging in like a psych rock rollercoaster, the latest Oh Sees album finds frontman and record label owner John Dwyer expanding into new territory. Following a slight name change (dropping from Thee Oh Sees to simply Oh Sees) for last release ‘Orc’ in 2017, Dwyer and co have once again combined their ferocious guitar tunes […]

ALBUM: OH SEES – SMOTE REVERSER

ALBUM: TY SEGALL AND WHITE FENCE – JOY

By the time you read this review, Ty Segall will have probably released two more albums, three EPs and four collaborations with others, such is his prolific output. His last collaboration with White Fence, aka Tim Presley, ‘Hair’ released in 2012 was one of his best , those heavy guitar riffs met with lighter acoustic […]

They’re from Brooklyn, named after the term for a corner shop in NY, and play a frenetic stream of consciousness style racket – it’s easy to see why Parquet Courts’ guitarist, Austin Brown, has produced them, as they’re musically not a million miles away from his own band’s jagged guitar riffs and dry vocal style– […]