Eight months to the day after the release of the fantastic collaborative album from PoiL Ueda, a second volume has arrived, entitled Yoshitsune. The initial release is hands down my favourite of 2023, underlined by the two shows I saw…
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The Lexington, London Wednesday, 23rd August 2023 A rather fabulous day was commenced with an amble up Hampstead Heath on what for this soggy summer was a rare hot one, cooled at the end of our stroll by a couple…
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What is music for? What should it be about? Should it be about anything, and does it matter if it isn’t? Of course it doesn’t, as long as it finds listeners who can be affected by it and be delivered…
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I suppose some of you might see this album as “difficult music”, but I don’t see it like that at all, having a penchant for a feral racket or two, which this may well be, who knows? I just see…
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With their third album Brossaklitt Lyon-based French trio PoiL have dropped a sonic bomb on my preconceptions. Whatever you may have considered to be avant-garde rock music in the past is taken somewhere very different with this strange mix of…
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