Not one but three bass clarinets can be heard on The Name By Which The World Knows Them (PEIRA 13),
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Yorkshire 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
Continue readingAdvaitic 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
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Roxy Music Mark Vernon has created entertaining and witty radiophonic records as one half of Vernon & Burns, and has
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