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Album Review: The Horrors – Night Life: Breaking Boundaries, Embracing Change
The Horrors have never been a band that stands still, but their approach has always been to evolve their sound rather then outright revolutionise it. New album ‘Night Life’ embraces the latter approach, ripping up many of the boundaries, or perhaps constraints, of old. With a revamped lineup composed of the ‘core duo’ of singer …
Track: Lutruwita’s Dvrkworld scale the highest high with their majestic new single ‘Us’, ahead of EP release and launch dates.
It’s autumn in the southern outpost of Backseat Mafia and the unseasonal warmth has been deliciously cast aside by the icy tendrils of the new single ‘Us’ by the dark pop maestros Dvrkworld. With their signature sound that calls up an Antarctic chill with filtered beams of guitar chiming sunshine and a dark ominous presence, …
Track: Call the ‘Deviant Hotline’ – it’s Low Monroe with a deliciously dark and visceral track, with launch date announced.
Low Monroe – the nom de plume of multi-instrumentalist and producer Mark Sergi – has just released a deliciously dark slice of gothic fuzz in the form of ‘Deviant Hotline’. With reverb-soaked, scything guitars and a rhythm section that prowls like a ravenous wolf, the track has a late night/early morning sleazy nightclub vibe filled …
News: The deliciously dark Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits head to Aotearoa/New Zealand on tour.
We were highly impressed by Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits’ 2023 album ‘For The Term Of My Natural Life’ (see my review here), and Matt Malone has announced he is taking this dark gothic epistle on tour through Aotearoa/New Zealand this month. Malone says of the tour: I’ll be doing a series of shows …
Track: The Horrors release the shimmering anthemic single ‘More Than Life’ ahead of ‘Night Life’ album release in March.
It’s close to the 20th anniversary of the iconic The Horrors and today they release the fourth single off their forthcoming and much anticipated album ‘Night Life’, out through Fiction Records and Virgin Music Group. With the core duo of vocalist Faris Badwan and bassist Rhys Webb, the band’s additional new members are Amelia Kidd …
News: The Cult Announce Australian Tour
Get ready, Australia—The Cult is bringing their explosive tour. downunder in November.
Premiere: Italy’s Varanasi unveil video for the track ‘L’odore della notte’ off their evocative album ‘Cattedrali per principianti’
It’s an irritating side to this reviewing malarkey that you sometimes miss little treasures along the way, and certainly the album release by one of my beloved Italian bands, the dark and gothic Varanasi, fell victim to this overload during the Christmas hiatus. At the end of the year they released their album ‘Cattedrali per …
Premiere: Jo Meares’ Silver Bullets eviscerate the target with the fin de siècle gothic attack of ‘Lone Gun’.
We’ve been openly stalking Jo Meares for many years now to the extent he would be justified if he took out a restraining order against Backseat Mafia. The fact remains, however, that he is a prodigious talent and whatever he turns is mind to, it will be remarkable. We are therefore catatonic with excitement to …
LIVE: Tomorrow’s Ghosts Festival Announces Line Up
Peter Hook & The Light will be headlining Saturday night at the annual goth festival in its spiritual home of Whitby on the east coast, hot on the heels of Halloween. Hooky & The Light will be presenting Joy Division: A Celebration, taking festival goers back to the gothic roots that began it all. They’ll …
Live Review: Emily Breeze -The Barrel House, Totnes 13.10.2023
In early 2023 Emily Breeze released her latest album ‘Rapture’ to critical acclaim and has been hoping to be an overnight success – all be it, one twenty years in the making. Support slots for James and Sleaford Mods have brought her to the attention of a disparate clan of music lovers a widely varied …