Concrete and Clay I quite like the Gobi Wow (NEVER COME ASHORE NCALP1) LP from FvRTvR, which turns out to
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Amesoeurs (self-titled): one and only album is inconsistent black metal pop
Amesoeurs, self-titled, Code 666, CD (2009) At least in a very short career, truncated in part by the unexpected success
Continue reading… if a night: trippy jazz big on smooth and suave tricks and not much else
Shijo X, … if a night, Bombanella Records / Five Roses Press, CD (2012) A very nice surprise here …
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Not one but three bass clarinets can be heard on The Name By Which The World Knows Them (PEIRA 13),
Continue readingYorkshire Black Metal and Beyond: distinctive raw black metal style with associated scene is just the remedy
A Brief Survey of Yorkshire Black Metal (White Medal) and Beyond White Medal is a raw black metal project masterminded
Continue readingYorkshire Black Metal II: four years of raucous fusion punk black metal by Sump
A Brief Survey of Yorkshire Black Metal: Sump Astute readers of my previous post on Yorkshire Black Metal will have
Continue readingTwo Vinyl Voustpaches
Now Return Us To Normal After his band Shockabilly broke up Eugene Chadbourne was slightly soured by the experience of
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The Bunwinkies LP Maps Of Our New Constellations (FEEDING TUBE RECORDS FTR062) is a collection of acoustic songs from these
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The Wake of the Flood An astonishing production is Outside, The Great Drought (SMERALDINA-RIMA S-R-018CD), an excessive pop opera with
Continue readingWindhand: in danger of becoming a Sabbath clone, and a tired one at that
Windhand, self-titled, Forcefield Records, CDGRIMM25 (2012) A sure sign that Windhand traffick in no-nonsense straight-ahead retro doom metal is the
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