White Medal, Yorkshire Heathen Black Metal, Legion Blotan & Distribution, BLOTCD012 (2012) White Medal’s debut album “Yorkshire Heathen Black Metal”
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Advaitic Songs: too restricted and earth-bound for meditative music to fly
Om, Advaitic Songs, Drag City, CD DC438 (2012) On Album No 5, Om move deeper into meditative, devotional religious territory
Continue readingAnimalia Corolla: beguiling fairy folk psychedelic music with environmental themes
Jüppala Kääpiö, Animalia Corolla, Omnimemento OM04, CD (2012) Ha- ha, I was fooled into thinking Jüppala Kääpiö was indeed a
Continue readingDomini Ascensionem: solid and brutal black metal fusion work flying off at unusual angles
Dodkvlt, III: Domini Ascensionem, South Korea, Misanthropic Art Productions, MACD 034 (2012) Album No 3 from one-man black metal Finnish
Continue readingSt Francis Duo: dark and moody, unpredictable and fiery, mesmerising and absorbing
Steve Noble and Stephen O’Malley, St Francis Duo, Bo’Weavil Recordings, CD weavil47 (2012) A thrilling barrage of thunderous drums heralds
Continue readingFaemin: a solid and dependable sludge doom metal effort
Process of Guilt, Fæmin, Bleak Recordings (2012) “Fæmin” is the third album by the doom metal band Process of Guilt who
Continue readingNo one is an Island: a warm and pleasing set of duets
Bérangère Maximin, No one is an Island, Sub Rosa, CD SR 337 (2012) Quite right too and Bérangère Maximin proves
Continue readingDream Seeds: too bland, poppy and smooth for very dark subject matter
Extra Life, Dream Seeds, Northern Spy Records, NSCD 022 (2012) That album cover has that curious and creepy look that
Continue readingV: best work by two soul music brothers
KTL, V, Editions Mego, CD eMEGO 120 (2012) For a band that formed in 2007 to score music for a
Continue readingThe Feather tipped the Serpent’s Scale: album inspired by vivid and unusual concept
Eagle Twin, The Feather tipped the Serpent’s Scale, US, Southern Lord, CD (2012) Reading the fine print on the gatefold
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