An Archive of Incendiary Magazine 2002 – 2017
Alone and a long way from home our tremulous author embarks on the dread journey home but is quickly distracted from the task at hand, taking solace in cancelled television programmes and ludicrous blockbusters starring Dennis Hopper, and he wonders why he spends his life scrawling nonsense in a garret rather than playing an active role in society.
Continue reading “Fear and Loving in Heaton Park: Part Nine – Park Life”
So, the squid was beaming some essential info to me after all. We both transmitted and received; yowsa, yowsa, yowsa. Consider this writer a fan of Divorce.
…the onus is on you the listener to put the spadework in to better reveal its charms. It’s akin to being at a party with the lights down low, stumbling around and trying to find groovy people to latch onto.
Continue reading “Las Kellies – Total Exposure”
Them Germans eh?, with their Grünewald and Dix; all this confessional expressionism… it can make you quite dizzy.
Continue reading “Guido Möbius – Through The Darkness Gathers”
It’s a great mix of demented and whacked out; albeit a sort of demented that catches you unawares – like the Devil in The Master & Margarita, it’s too suave to show all its tricks at once.
Continue reading “Pinkunoizu – The Drop”
It’s certainly their best balanced record too, so smooth that it engages your subconscious a LONG time before the rest of your brain catches up. I bet you that you only notice it’s actually on when Kissing The Surface starts.
Continue reading “AC Berkheimer – Beyond The Equation of State”
This is a marvellous LP; one which employs a mix of mad sounds and considerable know how. Not to mention bags of charm. At times it’s a weird pop master class.
Continue reading “Plus Instruments – Trancesonics”
Maybe Hunter Complex are serial sentimentalists. A lot of the tracks do have a marked sentimental edge, like Serious Glass or the brilliant Space, which nabs Seeing Out the Angel’s key pattern from the Minds’ Sons & Fascination.
Continue reading “Hunter Complex – Heat”