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hubris. – Metempsychosis

One of the best things about following a label is being introduced to new bands. Metempsychosis is not the first album hubris. have released, but it is the first I have heard – and I’d likely never have heard it…

A Different Aspect #36

In this update we feature: • Ikarus – Mosaismic • David Helpling – Rune • Lite – Multiple • Rainburn – Resignify [EP] • Sandro Perri – Soft Landings • Alex Crispin – Watersending Ikarus – Mosaismic Bob Mulvey Zürich…

JOYFULTALK – A Separation of Being

JOYFULTALK is Nova Scotian musician, composer, and visual artist Jay Crocker, here augmented by string arranger Jesse Zubot. With JOYFULTALK’s third album A Separation of Being they have fused elements of ambient music, world music, found sounds using homemade instruments,…

The Folsom Project – The Wolf And The Skull

I don’t know that I’ve ever struggled as much with a review as I have with The Folsom Project’s debut release, The Wolf and the Skull. I have listened to the album so many times since receiving it for review.…

A Different Aspect #35

In this update we feature: • Le Grand Sbam – Vaisseau Monde • Doctor Nerve – LOUD • Cosmo Sheldrake – Galápagos (Original Soundrtrack) • WorldService Project – Serve • Robin Saville – Build A Diorama • Crömëlin/Du Bose/Kedrub/with Colin…

Cheer-Accident – Chicago XX

It was way back in the early 2000s that I first heard about Cheer-Accident (deliciously and legendarily named after retail get well card descriptor labels, for cards for those recovering from a mishap, I understand), and they had already been…

The New Death Cult – The New Death Cult

Sometimes it takes a small nudge to make the effort to listen to something. The New Death Cult had been sitting in my “to listen to” pile for months, but I kept putting them off. There was something about the…

Luke Haines & Peter Buck – Beat Poetry For Survivalists

You all know who Peter Buck is, but maybe Luke Haines is one of those names you’ve heard but can’t quite pin down? He was the guitarist and frontman for reluctant Britpop outliers The Auteurs, who were a lot better…

Fós – Rinne Mé Iarraidh EP

Folk music has always been evolving, but there seems to me to have been an increasing trend in recent years to not so much create contemporary rearrangements as to completely reframe traditional sounds into a modern framework. One of my…

Time Shift Accident – Chronosthesia

Time Shift Accident; what does that band name say to you? Perhaps it suggests a seventies-obsessed sci-fi band with a Hawkwind fixation bent on recording a concept album about Einstein’s theory of relativity and the potential for time travel mis-haps?…

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