This combination of the two volumes of The Road box, both originally released to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Henry Cow in 2008, comes ten years later (sort of… ) as a 50th anniversary celebration of the band, and as…
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There is less time than there used to be. In these days of constant demands on our waking hours, instant communications, the endless frantic rush, it is hard to find the time to sit down and properly listen to an…
View More Darkroom – The Noise Is Unrest
The long-running U.K. exploratory-jazz-rock collective known as Led Bib awake to a new dawn with their latest album, It’s Morning, a fraught message struggling to leave the sender, transmitted into the hectic world in which we live. We find less…
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Dig out the white suit with the wide lapels, and the ass huggin’, flare flappin’ trews, strike your best Travolta pose, point pointedly at the ceiling with one hand, the other resting at a jaunty angle on your hip as…
View More Article 54 – The Hustle [plus interview with Rhodri Marsden]
In which the six-headed Hydra of creativity, born out of that hotbed of musical derring-do Berklee College of Music some 10 years ago, rises above adversity, and by a collision of the Fates and Muses produces a mesmerising melting pot…
View More Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean
Before and after underground DJ pairing Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi got the pixies bopping at Glastonbury 2017, they hung out with friend and musical colleague Michael J. York, who lived in the town, and the idea of a band…
View More The Utopia Strong – The Utopia Strong [plus interview with Steve Davis]
Released as part of this alternative rock band and musical institution’s 50th anniversary, Universal/Virgin send us this large box of enticing shiny things from Planet Gong, approaching us in a descending orbit around our burning planet. It’s landed over there…
View More Gong – Love From Planet Gong: The Virgin Years 1973 -1975
Ah, the joys of writing about a band with no preconceptions. You may think it strange, but until I listened to this album I don’t think I’ve knowingly heard anything by Tool. This band are evidently HUGE on the prog…
View More Tool – Fear Inoculum
This Red Kite, from Norway, are not be confused with an alt-rock band of the same name from London, as an internet search can get a tad confusing! Deliciously scuzzy, like a good vibe in an otherwise sleazy nightclub, Red…
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Brighton band Diagonal reappear on my radar after a seven year gap with their third album Arc, and after a regrouping following the fracture of the band before during and after 2012’s Second Mechanism (read more HERE), and the subsequent…
View More Diagonal – Arc