This year has been a strange one for music. Release dates have been moved back, and back some more. Gigs to celebrate those releases have happened months afterwards, or not at all. And there has been an extraordinary amount of…
View More The Dark Third – A Problem for Another Time / Healing Knives
I’m indebted to Cydemind for introducing me to Pyramid Theorem. I’d never heard of the latter, until the former shared a link to Pyramid Theorem’s latest album to introduce their fans to the band they’d be touring with. My memory…
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Swiss band Marhold have apparently been active for a decade or so, putting out four EPs before releasing their debut album this year. I’ve not heard of the band before, but based upon the strength of A Homemade World, I’ll…
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After having recently reviewed New Zealand’s Cut Off Your Hands, I moved on to Germany’s Kaskadeur. Their recent release, Uncanny Valley, is an absolute delight. Both bands play a brand of funky and dubby art rock with powerful pop hooks…
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With Brudini‘s new album, From Darkness, Light, released on Apollon Records, TPA’s Nick Hudson spoke to Brudini, (aka Erik Brudvik)… Hi Erik, having just finished my review of from Darkness, Light, in all honesty, it’s a very strong contender for…
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Brudini’s debut album, From Darkness, Light, has blown me away, and come from nowhere to being a contender for my favourite album of the year. Brudini (aka Erik Brudvik) has created an absolutely magical and melodramatic album of poetry and…
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I was introduced to Swiss band The Erkonauts in 2017, when their second album I Shall Forgive was recommended to me. Despite my initial confusion as to what the hell I was listening to, I was already in love. That…
View More The Erkonauts – I Want It To End
We are the sum of our experiences. Who we are today is different from who we were, and who we will be. I had nothing to fall back on when listening to elliot.’s debut release under his own name, so…
View More elliot. – As He Now Appears
Pelagic Records was founded by Robin Staps in 2009 as a way to re-release previous albums by his band, The Ocean. New Zealand is about as far geographically as it is possible to be from Pelagic’s home, but that country’s…
View More Spook The Horses – Empty Body
If there’s one genre label I’ve never been entirely comfortable with, it’s so-called “World” music, which comes ominously close to being racist, and sometimes crosses that line. And yet, with 3,14’s debut release, it’s hard to think of an adjective…
View More 3,14 – Bombyx Mori