Album Reviews
Premiere: Italy’s Brothers No More provide us with an exclusive listen to their passionate self-titled debut EP.
We are very honoured to bring an exclusive listen to the self-titled debut EP from Italian band Brothers No More, released through the esteemed Dirty Beach label. Brothers No More are part of the incredibly rich indie music scene in in Italy and bring to the table a muscular brand of rock filled with melody …
Album Review: Worldcub – Back to the Beginning
North Wales-based quartet Worldcub shines on their new album ‘Back To The Beginning,’ a colorful psychedelic journey through spacious reverbs and ethereal melodies. Led by brothers Cynyr (guitar & vocals) and Dion Hamer (drums & vocals), the 14-track release offers a rich kaleidoscope of carefully crafted soundscapes, packed with radiant creative ideas. Opening with the …
Album Review: Qoa – SAUCO: The Argentinian sound artist’s ambient hymn to a living landscape.
LA based, Argentinian Qoa (aka. Nina Conti) is a digital sound artist and illustrator who focuses on tuning in and responding to the non-human world. That involves the composer’s serious engagement physical and imaginary, with plants and animals, streams and undergrowth, winds and weathers, and from this starting point developing a musical connection with the …
Album Review: The Aerial Maps share the visceral beauty and graceful sounds of ‘Our Sunburn Dream’.
Sydney supergroup The Aerial Maps have just released their new album, ‘Our Sunburnt Dream’ and it is clearly business as usual for these purveyors of shimmering and eloquent antipodean sunshine. Produced by the legendary Jim Moginie (Midnight Oil) in conjunction with ARIA Award-winning engineer Ted Howard (Ian Moss, Kasey Chambers, Yothu Yindi et al), the album is the 4th from the Sydney band and folows the glorious ‘Intimate Hinterland’ released back …
EP Review: high jump – 001
Blending jangling, buoyant indie guitars with swirling electronics and pop melodies, high jump’s debut EP 001 showcases some fantastic writing and creative, wonderfully restrained musicianship. Opening with the reverb soaked guitar line of ‘M2K’, the band gradually introduce electronic samples and atmospherics as a punching electronic beat and swelling bass enters. Topped with silky smooth …
EP Review: Liza Unveils Her Most Ambitious Work Yet With New EP ‘The Alternate Ending’
Opening up like never before, Liza exudes confidence in its purest and most unfiltered form with her stunning new EP, ‘The Alternate Ending’. The Ethiopian-Canadian singer/songwriter brings a dynamic range to her neo-soul songwriting, seamlessly shifting between moments of hushed intimacy, delicate introspection, and climactic catharsis all delivered with an accessible flourish. Intricate and ambitious …
Album Review : Forest Law –‘Zero’ : Bossa beats, international grooves and so much more on this globetrotting musician’s debut.
Sonic explorer, creative adventurer, soundscape navigator are all phrases you could apply to Alexander Burke a.k.a Forest Law. Romford born, now London based he’s taken a globetrotting route to the release of his debut album ‘Zero’, available now courtesy of a Bongo Joe/ Total Refreshment Centre collaboration. Coming through Giles Peterson’s ‘Future Bubblers ‘unsigned artists’ …
Album Review: Voidgazer – Dance Of The Undesirables
Founded in late 2015 by mastermind Manny Watts, death prog merchants Voidgazer have been a band that have honed their craft for a while. Their debut EP ‘Years Of Exile’ was released the following year, and the band jammed around the Midwest of America over the next three years, naturally evolving the music and band until the current line-up. The covid …
Album Review: L’Étrangleuse – Ambiance Argile : Rootsy influences and a post punk mindset make for a pulsating return from the Lyon-based outfit.
The fact that guitarist / n’goni player Maël Salètes and harpist Mélanie Virot have been releasing albums as L’Étrangleuse since 2012 is down to much more than endurance or stubborn self-belief. These dynamic, probing musicians have always got something new to say and invariably exciting ways of saying them. Their intertwining string tones, raw, bluesy, …
Album Review : Don Glori – ‘Don’t Forget To Have Fun’ : Fresh, funky and inspired soul jazz from the revitalised and relocated multi-instrumentalist.
Now this is a bit different. An album of contemporary instrumental music shaped within the mundane pressures of the day to day, paying the rent, food on the table, making ends meet. Don Glori (aka Gordon Li) is a producer, multi-instrumentalist and composer originally out of Melbourne who has detached from Naarm’s vital scene to …