Back in 2012 I reviewed Pangaea Proxima, the first album from French avant-rock band Unit Wail, formed by a founder member of and by then ex-Shub Niggurath guitarist Franck Fromy. Shub Niggurath were a seminal band in the progression of…
View More Unit Wail – Beyond Space EdgesAuthor: Roger Trenwith
The Blessed Beat – M I V
This improvised dark fear-fest of a record is inspired by Charles Bukowski’s text A Copulating Mermaid In Venice. Ah, that explains those track titles then! The names David Kollar and Paolo Raineri may be familiar to you, as the duo…
View More The Blessed Beat – M I VNecromonkey – Show Me Where It Hertz
Necromonkey, the project of ex-Änglagård drummer Mattias Olsson and Gösta Berlings Saga keyboard wizard David Lundberg, are a band I have followed since their crazy debut Necroplex was unleashed on an uncaring world in 2013. This was followed last year…
View More Necromonkey – Show Me Where It HertzThe Receiver – All Burn
Brothers Casey and Jesse Cooper, otherwise known as synth pop duo The Receiver, hide deep in their bedrooms in Colombus, Ohio where for two years they have beavered away in the making of this introspective album of dream pop. I…
View More The Receiver – All BurnNordic Giants – A Séance Of Dark Delusions
Nordic Giants are an elusive duo who go by the mythological Norse names of “Loki” and “Roka” and have managed to cloak themselves in a carefully woven shroud of mystery, no easy thing to do in this ever-prying digital age.…
View More Nordic Giants – A Séance Of Dark DelusionsThieves’ Kitchen – The Clockwork Universe
Comparisons can be trite, but in striving for ever more convoluted, or conversely concise ways of describing low profile bands to potential listeners it is always well to remember that “a dichotomy of complicated note flurries mixed with simple yet…
View More Thieves’ Kitchen – The Clockwork UniverseO.R.k. – Inflamed Rides
It flutters past the like the butterfly it seems to be. Sensing something, it turns on its fragile wingspan and returns to the vibrantly gaudy flower. There, hovering above the anther, hums a large bumblebee going about its business. The…
View More O.R.k. – Inflamed RidesThe Pneumatic Transit – Concerto For Double Moon
As far as I know there is not a jacked-up hot-rodded Ford van* out there by the name of The Pneumatic Transit, but there is a bunch of fellas from Chicago who chose that odd name for their band. Actually,…
View More The Pneumatic Transit – Concerto For Double MoonJack O’The Clock – Outsider Songs
I have had this short album – or long EP, whatever – in my “to do” pile for quite a while, and a recent discussion on a Facebook thread with those fine Bad Elephant chaps about cover versions prompted me…
View More Jack O’The Clock – Outsider SongsLapis Lazuli – Alien
Another band helping to define the New Canterbury sound, and actually hailing from the Kent cathedral city, Lapis lazuli burst upon an unsuspecting world in 2012 with their double-debut, the “un” rather than “in” famous Bungalow Sessions, released as two…
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