Album Review: Super Low (Self Titled)

“Don’t be kid by easy feelings, don’t be fooled by cool pop vibes… a whole range of regrets and could have done betters can get made in those long still-warm evenings.”

Single Review: Studio Electrophonique – ‘I Don’t Think I Love You Anymore’.

…For three minuets I knew someone intimately, for three minutes I was someone else…

Album Review: Tristan B – ‘Porcelain’.

“Wide-eyed and spacious, poppy and quiet, strangely shy-sounding and warm with a chill… fully formed with the flaws that go with.”

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Single Review: Cross Wires – ‘Paradise Club 1953’

“Passive aggressive garage tinged vintage postpunk? There’s not a part of that phrase I don’t love…”

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EP REview: The Bugles – ‘What A Time To Be Alive’

“A ramshackle wide-eyed and raucous enthusiasm that’s tough not to want to admire…”

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Album Review: Teenage Cavegirl – ‘Candy Cigarettes’.

“Only duct tape and whatever substance comes to hand holds these scifi dumb punk songs together… Produced on a dime, it’s strip thin and loose, it’s a throwback to all types of uber-cool sub genres for those who love cheap punk and pleasures.”

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Single Review: The C33s – ‘Big Winner’.

In a bleach blistered highscuzz of scorch-rattle garage, The C33s let out 3 minutes 30 of beautiful scratching and scrawl. No let up from open to end. No pause to look back ’til it’s done with. Veins throb and pulse to a pressure sustained by the purging of squalor and power.

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Album Review: My Octopus Mind – ‘Maladyne Cave’

“My Octopus Mind have created a world with a clear set of feeling and colours. And while pretty and loose, its confusingly dense, as oppressive as it is free and open…”

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EP Review: Kopper – ‘Fading Fires’.

“Clean in intent, neat in their imagery, sharp in their focus and fever… But we’re just six months in and these things need to breathe, we’re still in the shaping and smelting…”

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Album review: Vukovar – ‘Cremator’.

To move through ‘Cremator’ is to move through a mindset. Blurred anti-dream images, abstracted thoughts, a single aesthetic joins the unarranged dots while textures coalesce then unravel….

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Category Archive: Music Reviews

Album Review: Super Low (Self Titled)

Single Review: Studio Electrophonique – ‘I Don’t Think I Love You Anymore’.

Album Review: Tristan B – ‘Porcelain’.

“Wide-eyed and spacious, poppy and quiet, strangely shy-sounding and warm with a chill… fully formed with the flaws that go with.”

Single Review: Cross Wires – ‘Paradise Club 1953’

“Passive aggressive garage tinged vintage postpunk? There’s not a part of that phrase I don’t love…”

EP REview: The Bugles – ‘What A Time To Be Alive’

“A ramshackle wide-eyed and raucous enthusiasm that’s tough not to want to admire…”

Album Review: Teenage Cavegirl – ‘Candy Cigarettes’.

“Only duct tape and whatever substance comes to hand holds these scifi dumb punk songs together… Produced on a dime, it’s strip thin and loose, it’s a throwback to all types of uber-cool sub genres for those who love cheap punk and pleasures.”

Single Review: The C33s – ‘Big Winner’.

In a bleach blistered highscuzz of scorch-rattle garage, The C33s let out 3 minutes 30 of beautiful scratching and scrawl. No let up from open to end. No pause to look back ’til it’s done with. Veins throb and pulse to a pressure sustained by the purging of squalor and power.

Album Review: My Octopus Mind – ‘Maladyne Cave’

“My Octopus Mind have created a world with a clear set of feeling and colours. And while pretty and loose, its confusingly dense, as oppressive as it is free and open…”

EP Review: Kopper – ‘Fading Fires’.

“Clean in intent, neat in their imagery, sharp in their focus and fever… But we’re just six months in and these things need to breathe, we’re still in the shaping and smelting…”

Album review: Vukovar – ‘Cremator’.

To move through ‘Cremator’ is to move through a mindset. Blurred anti-dream images, abstracted thoughts, a single aesthetic joins the unarranged dots while textures coalesce then unravel….

“Wide-eyed and spacious, poppy and quiet, strangely shy-sounding and warm with a chill… fully formed with the flaws that go with.”

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“Passive aggressive garage tinged vintage postpunk? There’s not a part of that phrase I don’t love…”

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“A ramshackle wide-eyed and raucous enthusiasm that’s tough not to want to admire…”

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“Only duct tape and whatever substance comes to hand holds these scifi dumb punk songs together… Produced on a dime, it’s strip thin and loose, it’s a throwback to all types of uber-cool sub genres for those who love cheap punk and pleasures.”

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In a bleach blistered highscuzz of scorch-rattle garage, The C33s let out 3 minutes 30 of beautiful scratching and scrawl. No let up from open to end. No pause to look back ’til it’s done with. Veins throb and pulse to a pressure sustained by the purging of squalor and power.

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“My Octopus Mind have created a world with a clear set of feeling and colours. And while pretty and loose, its confusingly dense, as oppressive as it is free and open…”

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“Clean in intent, neat in their imagery, sharp in their focus and fever… But we’re just six months in and these things need to breathe, we’re still in the shaping and smelting…”

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To move through ‘Cremator’ is to move through a mindset. Blurred anti-dream images, abstracted thoughts, a single aesthetic joins the unarranged dots while textures coalesce then unravel….

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