Review: Cigar for Castro – S/T
Typically a prospect of listening and describing extra-long tracks/jams fills me with dread – an hour of unvaried harsh noise, anyone? Not so much in the case of this peculiarly …
Review: Dax Pierson – Live In Oakland
Don’t take your technical abilities for granted or you will lose them at the snap of the neck. It’s as fitting as it is sobering that Dax had to open …
Review Batch – Padang Food Tigers / Aldous Harding / His Name Is Alive / German Army
Padang Food Tigers – Wake Up, Mr. Pancake On Wake Up, Mr Pancake, Padang Food Tigers deliver an enjoyable album of ambient folk music. Lulling guitars and banjos connote …
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Review: Velum Break – Bench Manoeuvres
What is genius? Velum Break approached me once requesting I review their first record, caprolactam, and said they’d never really solicited a review before. This level of craft leads me …
Review Batch – Eli Winter / M. Grig / Her Majesty's Coroner for Wirral / The Holy Gasp
Eli Winter – The Time to Come Eli Winter is a young fingerpicking guitarist with a lot of talent. The Time To Come was a pleasure to listen to and …
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Review: Hibushibire – Turn On, Tune In, Freak Out!
Hailing from Japan’s Kansai district Hibushibire are at the forefront of the new wave of Japanese psychedelic rock bands. Their Freakout Orgasm! album from early 2017 reset my expectations on …
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Review Batch: Jeff Mercel / Cloud Diameter / VUM / M. Shutak
Jeff Mercel – Lunescapes Volume One Lunescapes Volume One, the debut release by Jeff Mercel (former member of Mercury Rev), is a beautiful record with glistening and articulate piano …
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Review: R. Stevie Moore – Afterlife
Stop what you’re doing right now. R. Stevie Moore just released one of his best collection of songs, Afterlife, so what else were you going to spend that money on? …
Review: Gary Wilson – The King of Endicott
See also: An Interview with the King of Endicott On the latest Gary Wilson record, The King of Endicott, Gary incorporates the outer space themes he visited on his last …
Review: Binaural Space – Encounters
I type as I listen. So we start with ambient loops from an alternate universe spiked with intent, it predates The Orb and is more akin to early Tangerine Dream …