Dragging his sorry ass to the laptop, the writer desperately attempts over several whiskies and incantations to summon his muse, long confined in the depths of Purgatory, from whence there seems no escape. The writer has done this in order…
View More Ske – Insolubilia
Plenty enough… geddit? Actually, I could listen to this highly skilled tranche of dream-pop all day long. Well, maybe until just after lunch, when a rising need for low-slung loud guitars will probably be scratching at my perineum. The thing…
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My initial thoughts were, “Can I just say… this album is fucking tremendous!” Read on further if you want the long version. 🙂 One of my go-to “altered state” albums has long been The Isness by Amorphous Androgynous – those…
View More The Holy Family – The Holy Family
The latest chapter in the endlessly fascinating musical chronicle of Damon Waitkus sees the criminally little-known alt-Americana exponent par excellence continue to finely hone his songwriting craft at the helm of the good ship Jack O’the Clock, and seemingly, much…
View More Jack O’the Clock – Leaving California
The Other Place is the fourth and final part of a naturally evolving vox pop drama-documentary-rock opera (!) that incongruously started with an appearance on trash karaoke show The Voice, Part II then progressed from deepest Devon via a South…
View More Billie Bottle & The Multiple – The Other Place
The mighty matriarchal Norway spruce, we’ll call her Inger, shimmering in the never ending twilight of the endless mid-summer day, looks on in regal fashion over the fjord it has guarded for many centuries, along with its many hundred strong…
View More Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Ding Dong. You’re Dead.
In this update we feature: • Azolia – Not About Heroes • MFTJ – My Mom’s Getting A Horse • Mangabros. – Shivacrowblack • Moop – Ostara • Magnet Animals – Fake Dudes • Three-Layer Cake – Stove Top •…
View More A Different Aspect #57
It is a fair bet that most of you have never heard of Dennis Rea, a much travelled guitarist, multiple band member and composer, and a long term resident of Seattle. Dennis and I go back some time now, as…
View More Dennis Rea – Giant Steppes
Released on 31st July 1970, It’ll All Work Out In Boomland by T2 is one of the staples for those of us who collect, or collected LPs from the classic era of “underground” music. Back when this album was released…
View More T2 – It’ll All Work Out In Boomland
Norwegian jazz-rock fusion behemoth Elephant9’s previous release was the twin-headed live monster Psychedelic Backfire I & II back in 2019, two righteous slabs of visceral creative crackle that left scorch marks on your carpet. The passing of the Plague Year…
View More Elephant9 – Arrival Of The New Elders