Back in circa 1524 or whenever the hell it was, the leather-jacketed rock critic Lester Bangs wrote that Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music was the perfect medicine for worst kind of hangover because “when you first arise you’re probably so fucked (i.e. still drunk) that is doesn’t even really hurt
Joel Sarakula’s The Imposter is a brilliantly hewed album overflowingwith 1970s soul influences and streams of 1960s psychedelia. Originally from Sydney, Australia, Sarakula is now based in London. The retrograde album is a revival of everything wonderful about the ‘70s music scene and with a resurgence of psychedelic rock right
What’s your favourite double-album? Physical Graffiti? The White Album? Something by Mike Oldfield? Fair enough. Now what’s your favourite double-album specifically from the noise music genre? Merzbow’s Frog? Skullflower’s Strange Keys To Untune Gods’ Firmament? The New Form Of The Organic Machine by the gimp-masked Finnish electro-deafener Grunt? It’s hard
Its promotional material states proudly that Dumb Flesh is “A comment on the flaws of the human form in its current evolutionary state. The frailty of the human body naturally became a resonant and inescapable part of the album’s gestation” – which is the kind of thing you might read on an
If you’re listening to ‘Dream a Garden‘, use surround and a serious sub as not to insult the industrial sound and the on point ambience. The newest addition to the Jam City catalogue hits deeper than the previous effort ‘Classical Curves’. Coming in after a night on the liquor, laying
This London based trio might ring a few bells in the minds of the musically astute. They have been knocking around for a while and in 2007 even won a Mercury prize for their Knee Deep in the North album. After reforming and signing to Ninja Tune, they have refined their
“Can’t Keep Checking My phone is about missing somebody and that point where you refuse to accept online “connectivity” as a substitute for being with someone IRL” says the Orchestra themselves. Taken from ‘Multi-Love‘ out on Jagjaguwar May 25/26, this track is groovier than a goldfish bobbing around in a platform and begs
Scoring number one album in the UK charts with A Moon Shaped Pool is a good indicator that Radiohead’s ninth album is a providential gift to fans. After removing all trace of their existence on the Internet the release of the album was impending and the style in which it
Ramonda Hammer are an LA-based female fronted grungepop band that’s derived their name from reality television show, Cheaters. Described as angsty,anthemic grungepop by many. They’ve been compared to massive rock bands like Wolf Alice and The Pixies (most impressively) due to their distinctive old schoolmelodic, heavy guitar riff sound. The
Florian Zimmer is a member of the German post-rock trio Saroos. Andreas Gerth is a musician, composer and visual artist who has played in The Tied & Tickled Trio with brothers Markus and Micha Archer from The Notwist and, incidentally, also designed the covers of that group’s classic albums Shrink
