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…the music often hovers like some miasma in a churchyard; at times in tracks like ICA things get very “Pre Raph” in spirit.

Continue reading “Saltland – I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us”

Just remember this record isn’t looking to pass an exam. And you’re not meant to mark it ;0 .
Continue reading “Esmerine – Dalmak”

Stick in there, when you finally get a handle on the whole it can be an ever giving listen.
Continue reading “Various – New German Ethnic Music”

I want it to be longer, louder, harsher, brasher, messier, wronger, less perfect; even if a bit less perfect; please. Please?
Continue reading “The Bohicas – XXX – Swarm”

I get the feeling that I’ll get addicted to the LP when it comes out, as there is this nagging sense that Jaakko is onto something. Lord knows what.

Continue reading “Jaakko Eino Kalevi – Dreamzone”

This music is futuristic in feel; almost old fashioned in its total modernism. There’s nothing here – in spirit at least – that harks back to, or references anything.
Continue reading “Ital Tek – Control”

Morose, slothful, bug eyed and permanently in a state of vegetation on the couch, the tracks have – nevertheless – enough soul and intelligence to warm even the most morose Eeyore in a field full of thistles.
Continue reading “Crystal Stilts – Nature Noir”

This LP does what Étienne de Crécy’s music did in the late ’90s, openly identify and celebrate the here and now; or what New Order used to do, sugar coat the grimy, unpalatable stuff, with a bit of dry humour.
Continue reading “Cymbals – The Age of Fracture”

So, good, intelligent, fun pop with some startling highlights, mostly in the first half. Worth a listen? Oh for sure, for sure.
Continue reading “Hospitality – Trouble”

Well, it can’t entiterely escape sounding like a lot of bands coming out of Brooklyn, so you get that “trademark” adeptness at mixing up 17 Seconds Cure with Suicide and the Dinger beat.
Continue reading “Eraas – Initiation”