instrumental
Album Review : Paul Gilbert’s ‘Behold Electric Guitar’
I first discovered Paul Gilbert when I was a freshman in high school. Somewhere around 1988 or 1989 I picked up the Racer X album Second Heat and I was immediately blown away by the incredible Mr. Gilbert. I wasn’t as blown away by Racer X, but man could Paul Gilbert play. My admiration for …
Track/Video: Haiku Salut – Loves / Going Back
Written over a two month period in their studio on the edge of the Peak District, Haiku Salut have written a new soundtrack to Buster Keaton’s 1926 comedy classic ‘The General’, and from it they’ve released a new double a-sided single, Loves / Going Back, ahead of the albums release on August 2nd via Secret …
Album Review: Tall Tree 6Ft Man – Boundaries
It’s amazing what potluck it can be picking up a reviewing assignment. Sometimes it’s an artist you know, sometimes someone you’ve asked for or hunted down desperately over the years. Other times it’s a leap in the dark: you open the email, click on the soundcloud link, start listening and pick through the bio and …
Album Review : Paul Gilbert’s ‘Behold Electric Guitar’
I first discovered Paul Gilbert when I was a freshman in high school. Somewhere around 1988 or 1989 I picked up the Racer X album Second Heat and I was immediately blown away by the incredible Mr. Gilbert. I wasn’t as blown away by Racer X, but man could Paul Gilbert play. My admiration for …
News: CLOUDS TASTE SATANIC New Album, ‘EVIL EYE’
Instrumental Post-Doom quartet CLOUDS TASTE SATANIC releases their fifth album on April 30, 2019 (Walpurgis Eve). Entitled ‘Evil Eye’, the new record features two 20-minute songs on two sides of vinyl and is the first of two CLOUDS TASTE SATANIC records coming out this year The second album, ‘Second Sight’, features two more …
Album Review: Froth – ‘Outside (briefly)’
Los Angeles’ Froth, JooJoo Ashworth (guitar/vocals), Cameron Allen (drums), Jeremy Katz (bass), and Nick Ventura (guitar) have signed to Wichita Recordings. They release their third album, the Thomas Dolas produced, ‘Outside (briefly)’ on February 24th. Across the ten songs, the band dial back the noise and psych-pop found on their previous LPs to reveal delicately …
Track: Grails Release New Single “Deep Snow II” on Temporary Residence Ltd.
Grails have just released their third single, ‘Deep Snow II’, from forthcoming album ‘Chalice Hymnal’. You can hear the previously released singles for ‘Pelham’ here and album title track ‘Chalice Hymnal’ here. ‘Deep Snow II’ continues in the vain of the previously released singles and expands on the themes at the heart of the Grails …
Meet: Luke Howard, and listen to his track ‘The Ends’
Sometimes you hear something that makes you stop. That sweeps over you with its emotion. Like you know those songs that used to be on Grey’s Anatomy when something went wrong, (cue held camera shots and arty cutaways), well even more emotional than that. Like, real. Well, Australian composer and musician Luke Howard did that …
Album Review: MG : MG
MG is actually Martin Gore. Martin Gore is actually that guy that pretty much makes Depeche Mode Depeche Mode. Songwriter, guitarist, keys, angelic backing vocals…that’s Martin Gore. MG is what he’s going by this time around on a new solo LP. This solo LP is all instrumental and filled with analog synth buzzes and whizzes. …
Track: Leo Abrahams – Mosaic
The name might not be that familiar, but his work definitely will be. The guitarist / producer has played with the likes of Brian Eno, Pulp, Florence + The Machine and Roxy Music, and has produced artists such as Wild Beasts, Brett Anderson of Suede and Underworlds Karl Hyde> Recently signed to London independent Lo …