This collection of eight short songs explores a number of emotionally charged states which are complimented by the intimate production, and uncluttered instrumentation. Some songs are beautifully unsettling. Sometimes they feel like a hug from a treasured friend. The album,…
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You may be familiar with The Bob Lazar Story from such albums as Baritonia, Vanquisher, Ghost Of Foodstool, and several others you can find by using yon search facility on our website. The late and sorely missed Jez Rowden and…
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For someone who writes for an on-line magazine/blog about music, you’d think I would have an encyclopaedic knowledge of all things musical. In fact, as with most walks of life, I employ the philosophy of striving to be the one-eyed…
View More Deerhoof – Noble And Godlike In Ruin
Roger (R) – It falls upon me to guide our readers through the downuplands of this strange weather, otherwise known as The Heart Is In The Body, the new exercise in aural semaphore emanating from behind Richard Larcombe’s excitable brow…
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[WARNING: This review may contain hyperbole – read with caution] Jon Hunt is the best songwriting multi-instrumentalist from That London that has ever existed. Jon Hunt’s music could be described as being part of the singer-songwriter stable. But it isn’t…
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Being somewhat late in submitting this review, the first part is aimed squarely at anyone who has not yet heard Rivers Of Heresy. I unapologetically say that late reviews can give an album a second wind – and even revive…
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Nefarious Industries’ describe themselves on their Bandcamp page as: “(an) independent label & music collective extending its tentacles into far-flung regions of the musical spectrum… …home to crime, slime & grime since 2010”. Home to crime? Isn’t that prison? And…
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Liminal, I presume, is derived from subliminal, limen the Latin for “threshold”. The album title suggests to me, therefore, that we, or at least VALERIAN SWING, are at the threshold. At it. Not below it, but on the threshold of……
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You may be familiar with The Bob Lazar Story from such albums as Baritonia, Vanquisher, No Foodstool Left Behind, The Bob Lazarus Chronicles Pt1 : Foodstool Resurrection and from such reviews as Baritonia, Vanquisher, Ghost Of Foodstool and The Bob…
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Dario Saraceno is a singer, guitarist and Stickist native to Ripacandida, situated in the Italian province of Potenza, about 150Km east of Naples, and 1300Km from London, where he settled in in the sixties. Dario and his band, The Clear,…
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