2015 END OF YEAR – ANDY VINE

ALBUMS Blanck Mass: Dumb Flesh Alternately transcendental and crushing, Blanck Mass’ second album takes the abrasive ambience of his debut and marries them to stuttering glitch and punishing beats. Powerful, throbbing sound disorientates, blurring into high contrast synths and ravey stabs, walls of droning noise, exotic rhythms and twitchy samples. It’s aggressive, it’s blissed out, […]
– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – Kagoule only played the Soup Kitchen a month ago as part of Carefully Planned festival and were the highlight of the entire weekend. This will come as no surprise to anyone who’s heard their recent album Urth, considering it’s probably the best debut album of the year. They kick off […]

LIVE: KAGOULE – 20/11/2015

KAGOULE RELEASE VIDEO FOR ‘MADE OF CONCRETE’

Nottingham’s Kagoule release their debut album Urth this Friday and are streaming the self-made video to their BBC Radio 6Music playlisted single ‘Made of Concrete’. Devised, shot and edited by the band in one day, the DIY video is an ode to David Lynch that asks a lot more questions than it answers. Their Debut […]
It feels nice to be stood in Soup Kitchen this evening, a pint in hand, knowing I have the weekend ahead and not much else on the agenda apart from watching bands and drinking beer. Sadly, Soup Kitchen seems a little on the quiet side as I eagerly await tonight’s support, Nottingham outfit Kagoule. It’s […]

LIVE: THE XCERTS / KAGOULE – SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER 12/12/2014

NOTTINGHAM THREE-PIECE KAGOULE STREAM VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK

Teenage rockers Kagoule have released a video for their new track, It Knows It, which will be released on December 1. The video from the Nottingham three-piece also features “facts” about the band, spoofing shows such as TOTP2. The group recently supported US indie rockers Sebadoh, and also played at Glastonbury. Signed to Nottingham label […]