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Single Review: Madame So – ‘Real Friends’.

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“With every single released, we get closer and closer to that scrappy and idiosyncratic alchemy that Brix Smith has always exuded…”

February 16, 2021 Uncategorized

Questions of Judgement: An Interview with Madame So.

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With a single that’s let loose today, with shoegaze 90s jangle and a femme Britpop prowess that runs between Sleeper and Lush, it’s my chance to catch up and dig deep…

September 25, 2020 Music Reviews

Single Review: Healthy Junkies – ‘Last Day In L.A.’

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“It’s a dormant pop gem with a bubblegum agro and it’s blissfully short, sharp and raucous.”

September 2, 2020 Music Reviews

Single Review: Madame So – ‘You Say’.

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“With a keen eye for harsh words and wiry thin riffs, an ‘I’m doing my thing so screw you’ attitude… Madame So’s brand of force is infectious.”

July 31, 2020 Music Reviews, Uncategorized

Single Review: Les Futiles – ‘Black Heart’.

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Citing Pixies as a reference is dangerous. Yes we recall their scratchy prowess over throwaway stripped surf and […]

May 21, 2020 Music Reviews

EP Review: Le Marina – ‘Libera’.

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“These are intimate songs of depression. Violent introspections, self-examinations, self-worth imposed and assumed…”

May 14, 2020 Music Reviews

Whisky Stain – The Bio

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A gutterslung duo of smoke-smothered sand-blasted southern-stomp rock. A raw dirtbomb squalor of holler and grind. Gnawed gurning riffs, hymn crushing hooks, and a mean blast of bloody punch drums.

November 20, 2019 Whisky Stain

Album Review: Jelly Cleaver – ‘The Dream Jazz Manifesto’.

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“Here, for a moment, for the length of an album, the rule of imagination is king and anything might just be possible. Beauty and brutal included.”

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June 23, 2019 Music Reviews

Live: Ruts DC @ Rescue Rooms.

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“40 years worth of love and half blind adoration has gathered us here to sing to hymns from ‘The Crack’; The Ruts ’79 debut album. Thick with punk’s grit and gristle and dub-reggae tricks it’s a head above pure protest thrash.”

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March 1, 2019 Music Reviews

EP Review: Lossy – Gated Soul.

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Analogue maps of waking states, organic contortions and textures…. Breakbeat and jungle get stripped to essentials, then stripped down again to an essence. 

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November 12, 2018 Music Reviews
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