Category: Album Review
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Mugstar – ‘Magnetic Seasons’
photo by Steve Gullick Mugstar are like a favourite armchair, a trusted confidante, a font of eternal comfort – one which can sprout wings, when flights fancy dictate, the one who always has your back. For me, Mugstar are the latter day saints of a tradition conceived by Fairport Convention. Updating the electric folk ethic,…
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Sons Of The Void – ‘Sons Of The Void’
“Sons of the Void is the latest project from David Max, former bassist/songwriter with Hoboken/NYC psych rockers Tadpoles. Following his tenure with Tadpoles, David emigrated to Switzerland and began a 5-year stint as guitarist/songwriter in Genesis P-Orridge’s psych-futurist collective Psychic TV. David has also worked alongside many pioneers of drone, dream and psych over the years,…
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Dead Rabbits – ‘The Ticket That Exploded’ (Reissue)
photograph by chromaticism @ Fuzz Club Festival 2015 2016 finds the Dead Rabbits on the cusp of releasing a new, eagerly anticipated LP. It is perhaps only fitting then that Fuzz Club Records, close that circle with this repress of their 2013 debut, The Ticket That Exploded. I was beyond stoked, to obtain a copy…
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Dead Skeletons – ‘Live In Berlin’
Jón Sæmundur Auðarson (aka Nonni Dead), and his “monks of the dead temple”, in their guise as Dead Skeletons, are bona-fide shamanic resurrectionists. This loose knit collective, who coalesce as a “group”, as and when time and space allows, bring you this live esquisse – an abstract document, imprinted at SO36 Club on the 04th…
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Wooden Indian Burial Ground – ‘How’s Your Favourite Dreamer?’
Portland protagonististas, Wooden Indian Burial Ground comprising, “justin, dan, sam, cory, paul sometimes too”, return with their latest instalment of “song’s about surfing on acid with your dad.” ‘Styrofoam Factory’, grit blasts WIBG’s up-tempo sonic intent, perhaps tipping a nod to Arne Van Petegem’s disjointed “aesthetic of failure”, with it’s jerky, jagged rhythmic structure; ‘Sad Mutations’,…
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Causa Sui – ‘Return To Sky’
Causa Sui, as with many other sonic splendours, found their way to me courtesy of John Westhaver – TBWNIAS’ scintillating skinsman, disc doyen and vinyl frontiersman at Birdman Sound. As arbiters of taste go, you couldn’t wish to find yourself in better company. ‘Return To Sky’ is the latest magnum opus from the Danish four-piece,…
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Sula Bassana – ‘Shipwrecked’
photo by Clemens Mitscher Sula Bassana returns from the hyper-spatial outer rim, bearing gifts of otherworldly electronic krautrock. Continuing the trance explorations of 2010’s, ‘Kosmonauts’ space odyssey, this album envisages a marooned space mariner, whom fortune has smiled upon, bestowing ‘Shipwrecked’ as a soundtrack on infinite loop. ‘Moonbase Alpha Alpha’, conjures the epic sci-fi fave…
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Album Review: The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol – ‘Live 2010 Dominion Tavern’
The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol, will need little in the way of introduction to regular readers of chromaticism. For those of you who have somehow managed to slip through the cracks, or have been living in a cave, TBWNIAS – comprising, John Westhaver, Bill Guerrero, Nathaniel Hurlow, Jason Vaughan, Dave Reford, Miche Jette, and…
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Album Review: White Spot – ‘I Had The Best For A Little While’
White Spot is the current epicentre, of one man music meister Marcus Lemoine. Hailing from Mansura, Louisiana – the self proclaimed Cochon de Lait capital of the world, White Spot is a rare Cajun delicacy embodying, “A genre bending, noise induced movement filled with structured chaos containing elements of noise rock, mathcore, grind and sludge”. White…
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Album Review: Astrodome – ‘Astrodome’
One of the most rewarding aspects of writing this blog, is the literal unknown pleasures waiting to be discovered. Every now and again, someone like Jonas Gonçalves enlightens me with an introduction to a band I had yet to discover. ASTRODOME are one such nugget. Pretty much all I know about ASTRODOME is what’s posted…