Month: February 2014

As to the rest, well you can SMELL the perfume in the conditioner they used. These cats are SCRUBBED, me hearties. What to do about that? Well they can watch the fucking Sugar Coated Mindbombs, that’s what.
Continue reading “Go!Zilla, Droppings and Sugar Coated Mindbombs, SUB071, Leiden, 11/02/14”

There’s a reason we’re not called The Blissful Joy of Living. Maybe it’s not as blunt now that the songs are changing and there’s a little more room to breathe.

Continue reading “Incendiary talk to The Sweet Release of Death”

I’d wager this record (if the tooth whitened media-savvy robots and tablet botherers that constitute the Palace Guard at Bastille Hilversum give it the RIGHT AMOUNT OF EXPOSURE) could be the soundtrack of the summer in Holland.
Continue reading “Naive Set – Reclining Nude”

I am reminded of the (surely) apocryphal story that Terry Thomas told about a pie manufacturer in the Midlands, who, on being asked about the secret of his factory’s productivity, replied: “oh I don’t do anything difficult old boy. I just lean out of the window and shout, “Faster you fuckers!”

Continue reading “Sweet Release of Death – Bulb”

To me natural imagery can be very rich, it has a lot of symbolical value, it works well to draw parallels between natural phenomena and feelings or moods or human nature in general.

Continue reading “Incendiary talk to I Am Oak”

What is especially galling is that despite being just over 30 minutes in duration, nearly half is remixes.
Continue reading “Weepikes – We are Weepikes”

Floristry does not break any new ground, and it lacks a bit of variety and emotional depth, but Trick Mammoth are very young, barely out of their teens, and, bearing this in mind, this is an exceptional debut.
Continue reading “Trick Mammoth – Floristry”

For sure there is always an element of looking back to “better times”, and there were moments during the night where I thought I was watching some part of my memory served up as a hologram.
Continue reading “Grauzone 2014”