avant-rock – The Sound Projector

21/03/2023 Ed Pinsent

Le Picotement Au Main

Third release by Eclectic Maybe Band is Again Alors? (DISCUS MUSIC DISCUS 130CD) (with a title that may or may

14/03/2023 Ed Pinsent

Lead in your Pencil

Sheffield combo Out Ink here with their second release titled Less (INK INC-CD002) … the team of Sam Neilson, Jonathan

25/02/2023 nausika

A Fate Worse Than Home: a balancing act between two very different musical poles

Iravu, A Fate Worse Than Home, United States, Fiadh Productions, FP076 / VP19 limited edition cassette / CD (2023) The

09/02/2023 nausika

Beyond the Dark Zones: going into far reaches where dark jazz, ambient, drone, electroacoustics and musique concrète merge

Cristiano Bocci, Beyond the Dark Zones, Italy, Unexplained Sounds Group, USG079 CD (2022) Based in Tuscany, Cristiano Bocci set out

03/02/2023 nausika

Triumphs: a bizarre alternative blackened post-industrial world of Rome as a corrupt industrial power

Theatruum, Triumphs, Italy, Xenoglossy Productions, XP057 limited edition cassette (2023) Listening to “Triumphs”, the debut album from mystery raw BM

31/01/2023 nausika

Transmission Errors: a bleak, savage and terrifying soundscape of experimental black metal, industrial, noise and drone

Crown of Ascension, Transmission Errors, Italy, Xenoglossy Productions, XP056 limited edition cassette (2022) Formed in Oxfordshire in 2020, Crown of

21/12/2022 Ed Pinsent

Hypernormal Curves in Weyl Space

Andrew Raffo Dewar, Ekphrasis Suite (RASTASCAN RECORDS BDR 075) Modernist composition – jazz-ish – for a quartet, comprising Gino Robair,

16/11/2022 Ed Pinsent

Beyond the Crossroads

The LP by Ambulatorio Segreto is the latest chapter in the stories of Miguel A Ruiz and Siegmar Fricke, whose

11/11/2022 nausika

NON baNd (self-titled): new lease of life for skronky post-punk / new wave cult band’s debut album

NON baNd, self-titled, Germany, TAL, TAL04 clear vinyl LP (2017, reissued 2022) Originally released back in 1982, the only album

05/11/2022 Ed Pinsent

Step Into My Boots

The Bootstrappers group was quite an interesting proposal in 1989, when guitarist Elliott Sharp joined forces with two of the