Album Reviews
Album Review: Beretta & Sullivan to release debut LP, The Loft Recordings ahead of trip to the International Blues Challenge in USA.
Australia continues to carve out a rich tradition of excellent blues musicians and artists, a history which stretches back into the 1950’s and continues to this very day, and is seemingly going from strength to strength. To that end, winners of the solo/duo section of the 2024 Sydney Blues Challenge, Nathan Beretta and Dan Sullivan …
Album Review: EWAH’s ‘Souvenir’ is a beautiful luminescent dreamscape.
Emma Waters, otherwise known as EWAH from EWAH & the Vision of Paradise, has just released the album ‘Souvenir’, her first solo album in fourteen years. After years of battling anxiety and bouts of depression, and ultimately procrastination, superstition and pedantry, EWAH says: …this is the album I kept trying to make for years. For a …
Album Review: Love Ghost X SKOLD – Love Ghost SKOLD
With creepy electric beginnings, welcome to the musical world of Love Ghost and Skold, i.e., US indie/alt-rock maverick Love Ghost (Finnegan Bell) and Swedish industrial music legend SKOLD (Tim Skold). For those in the know, the album sounds like everything you expect. For those that aren’t in the know, you are in for something unique. …
Album Review: Not Now Norman – Go Hard Or Go Home
It’s an ominous start from chanting, rising organs, and an outburst of frantic riffing crafting one of the best album openers. Delivering Hard Rock courtesy of guitarist Zander Brown with strong messages belted out by the fierce Taylor-Grace commanding the front. Fiercely independent, the album is completely in-house and a testament to these two exceptional …
Album Review: Maalem Houssam Guinia – ‘Dead Of Night’ : An unforgettable, intense offering from the Gnawa master-musician
We should be mighty thankful for the long and strong relationship that’s grown between Brighton’s Hive Mind Records and Guinia family of Gnawa musicians in Morocco. Back in 2017, the label’s inaugural release was the first vinyl press of ‘Colours Of The Night’ by the legendary guembri player Maalem Mahmoud Guinia. It was a poignant …
Album Review: Scan 7 – Dark Territory
Patience is a virtue well-rewarded in techno; finding the right groove to build on then holding your nerve long enough to pay off the wait at the optimum moment is a much more skillful endeavour than it would seem for such a minimalistic style. And few display this talent better than Detroit originals Scan 7. …
Album Review: James Last – Funky Music
There are people who think that the terms JAMES LAST and FUNKY MUSIC cannot be used in the same sentence. These people may know James Last, but they certainly don’t know the whole of James Last. But you can’t blame them, because the musical perfectionist has not only released over 150 records and received 17 …
Album Review: Earthen Sea –‘Recollection’: Blissful ambient techno with a deeper trip-hop flow.
Jacob Long’s musical journey has wound from seminal Dischord post-hardcore band Black Eyes through the deep dub rhythmics of Mi Ami to arriving, around 2014, in more greyscale/ambient landscapes with his aka Earthen Sea. From this point Long’s sound documents have mapped a pathway from home studio sketches to his first album ‘Ink’ on Lovers …
EP Review: Fraser Morgan – I Hope You Can’t Relate
Fraser Morgan’s new EP ‘I Hope You Can’t Relate’, is an emotionally charged, cathartic journey that seamlessly blends raw honest lyricism with folk instrumentation and a vibrant, urgent punk energy. On ‘I Hope You Can’t Relate’, the rising singer-songwriter from the East of England brings a collection of tracks that feel both deeply personal and …
Album Review: Jagged Baptist Club – Physical Surveillance
For those who like their indie with a spot of dying seaside town glamour and a drop of psyche, then the Jagged Baptist Club might very much be your club. Consisting of Blake Stokes (lead vocals, guitar), Morgan Ponder (drums, percussion), Josh Boyd (synths, backing vocals), CJ Ramsey (bass, backing vocals) the LA band bring …