ALBUM REVIEW – MIDWIFE: NO DEPRESSION IN HEAVEN

No Depression in Heaven, Madeline Johnston’s newest release under the Midwife moniker, is a steady trickle of dreamlike slowcore from the other side of an infinite expanse. The Denver, Colorado-based purveyor of self-described ‘Heaven Metal’ (described as emotional music about devastation) returns after last year’s excellent Orbweaving – a collaboration with Vyva Melinkolya – with […]
Agriculture’s new EP Living is Easy sees the band carry through on the current of momentum established by last year’s self-titled LP, which saw them establish joyous, ecstatic black metal as their signature. This stood them alone as a streak of colour in what can be a sea of monochromatic doom. Living is Easy sees […]

ALBUM REVIEW – AGRICULTURE: LIVING IS EASY/THE CIRCLE CHANT

ALBUM REVIEW: SPRAIN: THE LAMB AS EFFIGY OR THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY XOXOXOs FOR A SPARK UNION WITH MY DARLING DIVINE

The Lamb As Effigy or Three Hundred And Fifty XOXOXOs For A Spark Union With My Darling Divine marks a new phase in the mutation of LA quartet Sprain. Since their first self-titled release in 2018, the band have shifted dramatically from gentle, subdued slowcore in the vein of genre titans Codeine or Bedhead to […]