Category: Vinyl
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7″ Review: Sonic Jesus – ‘Locomotive’ (Sonic Boom Remix) / ‘Never In My Mind’
photo as featured in Lazio Creativo This eagerly awaited 7″ finally tumbled through the letterbox the other day. Sonic Jesus remixed by Sonic Boom. But what happens when two sonic waves overlap? Would there be interference? Would the interference be constructive or destructive? Would the resulting displacement, leave the individuals in their former exalted locations?…
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Album Review: Huminoita – ‘All is Two’
“Huminoita is a Finnish word that can be related to the wind between the trees. Sounds made by the wind and the branches. Noita means ‘a witch’ in finnish. Humi-noita has definitely some connections to the forests and witches of Finland.” “Luova Records is a new Record Label from Finland. We are a collective of…
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EP Review: ÁRIRANG – ‘Geisha’
photo by jan kuca “Árirang was born in Milan as a matter of sound. Maybe an orchestra, maybe just a solo.” Being well acquainted with fellow Milanese noise merchants, The Gluts and Giöbia, I feel a certain sense of shared DNA with Árirang, if only through guilt by association. Tenuous as this link may be, having met…
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Album Review: Kill Your Boyfriend – ‘The King Is Dead’
pic by Emilio Paranoico I first heard Kill Your Boyfriend, courtesy of the Limited Edition 10″ split double A Side, with New Candys back in January. Their “Illimitate Post Punk | Dark Wave | Black Shoegaze | Irritating Noise”, was an indelibly intoxicating introduction. Fast forward to Fuzz Club Festival a few weeks back and…
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Album Review: Throw Down Bones – ‘Throw Down Bones’
photo by chromaticism at Fuzz Club Records Festival Throw Down Bones are, Frankie Frankie, (so cool they named him twice!) : Guitar/Synth/Vocal/Effect, Dave Cocks: Bass/Percussion and James Aparicio: Producer. Throw Down Bones is “Noise Militia, Amnesia haze kraut and Philosophical drone”. Risen, phoenix-like from the ashes of Piatcions, “THROW DOWN BONES is the answer, a personal therapy, a…
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Album Review: Sudakistan – ‘Caballo Negro’
Photo by: Christian Apolo ‘Caballo Negro’ or Black Horse by Sudakistan is an album I was destined to hear. In the week leading up to Liverpool Psych Fest 2104, if El Lobo first came to me in the guise of ‘Dale Gas’, then ‘Rabia‘ literally injected me with Sudakistan’s rabid frenzy. My pack allegiance was…
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Album Review: Singapore Sling – ‘Psych Fuck’
‘Psych Fuck’ by Singapore Sling, buy it, love it, the end… Listen, feel, assimilate, emote, sensate… As a kid, I would have sat with the dictionary for hours, chasing “meanings”, following roots, finding nothing, repeatedly exposing words as empty vessels, crude, devoid approximations, blunt communicative tools, pregnant inadequacies… “I want my own stuff, my own…
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Album Review: Documenta – ‘Drone Pop #1’
Image Credit – Christopher Flack Documenta was, “Started as a one one off project but slowly expanded like a bad disorganized universe, Documenta will produce 18 original songs plus a few covers then finish….. “three chords good, two chords better, one chord best”…” I had first heard about Joe Greene and his Documenta “Drome Pop”,…
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Album Review: Het Droste Effect – ‘Soar’
Het Droste Effect is, “Two guys rocking out in a studio and blending whatever sounds they like at any given moment in time.” I first chanced upon Het Droste Effect, with the announcement of their ‘Random X Maybe’ track, commissioned for Eindhoven Psych Lab in 2014. A delightfully idiosyncratic collaboration, with Glen Peeters from Radar…
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Album Review: USA Nails – ‘No Pleasure’
“The band name? Its literally named after a nail bar in Hackney”. Perhaps echoing the vein of PiL’s ‘This Is Not A Love Song’, USA Nails contend, “We are not a nail bar. We are a band.” USA Nails are, Steven Hodson – Guitar & Vocals, Matt Reid – Drums, Gareth Thomas – Guitar and Daniel Holloway – Bass.…