We’ve been keen on Toshimaru Nakamura’s music for at least 15 years now, ever since the wonderful Japanorama events organised
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Tag: avant-rock
Bucket Brigades
Seems like an age since we’ve heard from Sightings, the abrasive New York noise-rock-attack trio whose roaring onslaughts have always
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Melting Maitreya
Nice to receive a double-CD album The Night Before (PATAPHYSIQUE RECORDS DD-012 / CAPTAIN TRIP RECORDS CTCD-686) of heavy Japanese
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The album ÜTOPIYA? (SUB ROSA SR396) by French intellectual free-rocksters Oiseaux-Tempête is slowly growing on me, despite early spins where
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Dadamah Covered
The latest instalment in the Alone Together Series of singles from Emerald Cocoon is by Pete Swanson, who’s been steadily
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New Bermuda: out of personal angst, self-doubt and the anxieties and afflictions of life comes music of power, beauty and majesty
Deafheaven, New Bermuda, Anti Records, CD 87425-2 (2015) I’m completely unfamiliar with previous Deafheaven recordings like “Sunbather” so I come
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Intimacy and Polarity
Stepmother are a high-energy slightly “zany” latterday art-rock band, keeping alive the spirit of bands such as The (EC) Nudes
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Fast Forward Through The Gates
Another four cassette tapes from Spina!Rec kindly sent to us by Sergey Kostyrko (the co-founder of the label) from Izotova
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Astral Dream: powerful fusion ambient BM / post-rock in need of some subtlety and restraint
Perennial Isolation, Astral Dream, Darkwoods, FLAMMA VII CD (2015) Perennial Isolation is a Catalan ambient BM band based in Barcelona.
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Fin: a stunning collection of bleak and darkly beautiful soundscapes
Jabladav, Fin, self-released CD-R (2014) This one-man ambient black metal act was very quiet for a few years after the
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