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Not Forgotten: Edwyn Collins – Doctor Syntax
Released several years after the splendidly varied I’m Not Following You, and years after the wave of interest caused by “A Girl Like You” had long since dissipated, Doctor Syntax found Edwyn Collins at an interesting point in his career. Quietly critically lauded, any new release by the former Orange Juice frontman would always achieve …
See: Asking Alexandria release video for Here I Am
Accompanied by black clothing, wide open spaces, and touches of folk horror – Asking Alexandria have a new video. The song has a decent set of riffs, a catchy chorus, pin-sharp drumming, and you can tell it’s going to be a powerful addition to their set. “Here I am” is from their album “The Black”, …
Album Review: Mongrels – Attack The Monolith
It almost feels wrong listening to music by Kid Acne’s musical project Mongrels digitally. As I opened up my Spotify app (other music streaming services are available) and hit the new album ‘Attack The Monolith’, I felt like I should be opening up a limited edition vinyl, individually numbered, with artwork pressed by the artist …
See: Jupiter Cats release video for A disengagement party
Balaclava clad London alt-rockers Kupiter Cats are preparing for the release of their first album ‘The truant’, out later this month (the 17th, to be accurate) on Foof records, and it’s preceded by a single, A disengagement party, which is out now as a free download. Almost like two songs welded together, it’s joyous, melodic …
Live Review: Larkin Poe – Stereo Glasgow, 22 May 2016 Plus Gallery
Larkin Poe proved they are hot property as they rocked a sweat-soaked Stereo. On a night where you can feel the sweat trickling down your back into a pool at the bottom of your spine the Glasgow basement that is Stereo is packed and sweltering by the time Larkin Poe take to the stage. The …
Classic Album: Queen – Sheer Heart Attack
Sometimes when a band gets it right, the results can blow their previous work clean out of the water. Sheer Heart Attack was the first album where Queen got it unarguably right, despite it being still consisting of elements of hard rock, prog and glam, this time they were blended in such a way that …
See: The Cult of Dom Keller – Broken Arm of God
Latest single from The Cult of Dom Kellar boldly steps into the dark to bring a tune that should be equally appealing to the leather clad, sunglasses after dark goths as it is the more discerning psilocybin fueled psychonauts. “We wanted it to sound like a volcano giving birth to an atomic bomb. It has bass and …
Album Review: Peter Björn & John — Breakin’ Point
During the recording of Swedish pop wizards Peter Morén, Björn Yttling, and John Eriksson’s latest album Breakin’ Point, after a five-year hiatus, they actually did contemplate splitting up. Instead they brought in a few gifted outside producers for the first time, listened to a lot of ABBA, and created an exquisite collection of some …
Album Review: Lone – Levitate
Matt Cutler, more commonly known as electro-maximalist Lone, is the master of (to use a phrase) stuffing ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag. Except, instead of shit, it is gold: pure, audible gold. His 2012 album ‘Galaxy Garden’ was a massive hit with damn near everybody (myself included) and since then I …
Album Review: Mourn – ‘Ha, Ha, He.’
Catalonian four-piece Mourn make a welcome return with 26 minutes of youthful exuberance. ‘Ha, Ha, He.’ (out now via Captured Tracks) is the second album released by Mourn in the past two years. It would have been released even sooner, if it hadn’t been for label issues, and everything about this album adds to the …