Ok so we have a lot to catch up on. Well more precisely, I got a whole load to show you. Those monthly playlists, those reviews, well they’ve been lacking for some time but I’ve been listening and keeping ears all along. And all those cool sounds just keep on bleeding in. So with no more a-fuss or ado…  here’s a catch up of ’24 so far. Part 1.   

And in the Blue Corner we have…

A pummel-load of heavyweight hi-octane ear splitters, master classes of raw noise from dictators of distortion and the finest and best producers of scuzz, thump and sleaze from the year to the date as it stands.

Deathretro – Yellowhammer
Death Cult Electric – Wishy Washy
Yur Mum – Same Igual
No Tuition – Scamcaller
Holy Popes – Pencils
Amyl and the Sniffers – Chewing Gum
Warmduscher – Fashion Week
Man of Moon – Video
St Agnes – No Pussy Blues
Crack Cloud – Blue Kite

And in the Red Corner…

In a mass-needed let slip of high tension pressure, we tune in and wriggle into something more soothing before twisting into sweet sounds less subtle. Here’s the chilled sounds of chillwave and semi-ambient electronics before hard blasts of mean, loud and lean.  

Le Spectre – Black Summer
Eric Angelo Bessel – Kindly Rewind
LOW-RES and I Break Horses – Ride
Cosmopolis – Parasite
Heavy Wild – Black Summer
Title Fight – Safe in your Skin
Andrew Tuttle and Michael Chapman – Wholly Unrelated to Four Seasons
Weltschmerzdigest – New Follower
Rafters – Under BA
ANNA – Kalimba Dreams
ADRIANNA and 808 State – Wild Electric
Zeroelectrodrum – Blackfish
Minas – R U OK, UK?
Last Wars – Crystaline
Waave  – Control
Alan Vega and Bobbie Gillespie – Blood on the Moon – Rope’s Recoil

Part 2 will follow shortly with a fist fulla moods that I promise will deviate, twist turn, swerve a hard left and a hard left again, and threaten so politely to entangle you. Music is there for the making. And that music is here for the finding.