A band hitherto unknown to me, The Monks of Doom are an intermittently active American collective formed in 1986 as a harder edged spin-off from indie stalwarts Camper van Beethoven, and here they offload their first new material in 25…
View More The Monks of Doom – The Brontë PinMonth: May 2018
C:Live Collective – The Age of Insanity
This is an age in which a mendacious, manipulative manchild lunatic has taken over the Asylum whilst elsewhere a blackened, ruined stump of a Tower shamefully overshadows a nation that’s lost its moral compass, amidst the stench and filth of…
View More C:Live Collective – The Age of InsanityThe Innocence Mission – Sun on the Square
I have been a fan of The Innocence Mission since the early 1990s. I have most of their CDs and love Glow, My Room in the Trees, and Now the Day is Over, so when I heard that their new…
View More The Innocence Mission – Sun on the SquarePanu-Pekka Rauhala – 60 Songs in 60 Minutes
The instant I saw this title it put me in mind of Morgan Fisher’s curated compilation Miniatures. No doubt there have been other attempts at the concept. I believe The Residents tried a similar thing on their mere 40-song long…
View More Panu-Pekka Rauhala – 60 Songs in 60 MinutesArena – Double Vision
2018 sees Arena return with their ninth studio album, as well as a tour to commemorate the 20th anniversary of their excellent The Visitor. Arena are now three albums into their comeback with singer Paul Manzi, and it’s fair to…
View More Arena – Double VisionGazpacho – Soyuz
Gazpacho return with Soyuz, their tenth studio album since 2003. There really is no band quite like these Norwegian artists, distinctive, moving and haunting, each new release imbued with their unique brand of ambitious music, full of idiosyncratic themes, inventive…
View More Gazpacho – SoyuzThe Fierce And The Dead / Mark Buckingham
The Black Heart, Camden, London Friday, 18th May 2018 An early arrival into the capital heralded a day of chewing the fat with friends prior to the gig, and notwithstanding The Disappointment Curry, a fine time was had by all.…
View More The Fierce And The Dead / Mark BuckinghamSonja Kristina – Anthology
This 2-CD set consists of Sonja Kristina’s career outside of her work with both Curved Air and Mask, containing not just her solo work but various releases that she’s been involved with beyond the two bands, showing that she’s more…
View More Sonja Kristina – AnthologyMatt Stevens & Kev Feazey – The Fierce And The Dead
With their new and most anticipated album to date, the batteringly fine The Euphoric just released, this early summer is something of a crunch time for Rushden’s finest sound warriors, The Fierce And The Dead. Matt Stevens and Kevin Feazey…
View More Matt Stevens & Kev Feazey – The Fierce And The DeadThe Fierce And The Dead – The Euphoric
It feels as if there’s way more Fierce and Dead music around than their discography would suggest. This is only the third studio album by the critically acclaimed and very hard working The Fierce And The Dead. The Fierce And…
View More The Fierce And The Dead – The Euphoric