ALBUM REVIEW – THE BODY: THE CRYING OUT OF THINGS

The Crying Out of Things is the newest offspring of experimental metal/noise rock outfit The Body’s mammoth catalogue. It’s their eighth studio LP, though that’s not counting sixteen collaborative albums, nine EPs, four splits and two standalone singles, bringing their total number of releases to 39 since 2004. Through these releases they have toured various […]
Terrestrial Seethings is the latest release by Black Pus, the solo project of Lightning Bolt drummer/vocalist/album cover artist/noisemaker Brian Chippendale. You’d be hard pressed to find a better percussionist on the planet, playing at the exact knife-edge meeting point of speed, strength and blind aggression all whilst spewing mangled vocal lines from behind a patchwork […]

ALBUM REVIEW – BLACK PUS: TERRESTRIAL SEETHINGS

ALBUM REVIEW – PERSHER: SLEEP WELL

CAUTION: you will not ‘Sleep Well’ to this. This isn’t down to Persher not playing well enough or serenading the listener as well as they could be on their debut, oh no: this electronic-metal-screamo-experimental duo are just having you on. As do a few of their songs’ zany names – my personal favourite being ‘Medieval […]
With their industrially-charged new record Stop Mute Defeat hitting the shelves in just under a month, post-psych overlords White Hills have unveiled the brain-melting, surreal video for ‘Importance 101’. The second in Stop Mute Defeat’s series of videos created and directed by bassist Ego Sensation, ‘Importance 101’ delves through the looking glass to depict a twisted nightmare world, where everything isn’t quite […]

WATCH WHITE HILLS HALLUCINATORY NEW VIDEO FOR ‘IMPORTANCE 101’ HERE

WHITE HILLS RETURN TO MANCHESTER IN SUPPORT OF THEIR NEW LP ‘WALKS FOR MOTORISTS’

Soup Kitchen and The Beauty Witch present WHITE HILLS (Thrill Jockey Records) Soup Kitchen, Manchester Tuesday 23rd May 2017 Doors 7:30pm Tickets £8 Adv. (EXCL FEES) White Hills are proponents of psychedelia as transformation. The music made by Dave W. and Ego Sensation is risky and cutting edge, rooted in dystopian futurism and hyper-conscious of […]
– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – Marbled acid-fade projection paints the tin-foil armoured synth tower looming monolithic over Manchester’s Gorilla. ‘American Girl’ is playing, and ultra-fuchsia beams cross themselves in waves of vapour – fighting for air with the mixtape that is most-likely titled ‘1977-1992’. This is clearly an environment that’s been groomed by bearded galaxy-eater Ripley […]

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GRUMBLING FUR RETURN WITH NEW ALBUM THIS SEPTEMBER

Grumbling Fur is the joint manifestation of Alexander Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan which, since 2011, has birthed a series of increasingly focused albums of psychedelic pop. Their new album Furfour, due for release on 16th September via Thrill Jockey, is a record that is the sum of a dizzying array of creative projects by two talented key […]
Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa have unveiled a dreamy new video for their track Aether Curtain. The track is taken from the duo’s second album, Savage Imagination, which is out now on Thrill Jockey Records. It is the latest fruit from their collaboration, which began in 2011 after Minekawa, a Japanese artist, saw former the […]

DUSTIN WONG AND TAKAKO MINEKAWA UNVEIL NEW VIDEO

DUSTIN WONG & TAKAKO MINEKAWA SHARE HAND-DRAWN VIDEO FOR ‘PASTEL ICE DATE’

This week sees the release of Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa second album “Savage Imagination” as a duo, and shows their collaboration in full bloom. It is an collection of vibrant pop music, laced with the sounds of video games (Mario Kart!!), radiophonic experiments, and indigenous music from around the world. Watch the brilliant animated […]
Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa are artistic omnivores, soaking up a myriad of cultural artifacts and styles, savoring bits and pieces and recontexutalizing them into an entirely delightful and playfully intricate songs. Their songs are embued with a relentless cheerfulness that belies their technicality, steeped in the history of Japanese pop music and exuding the joy […]

NEWS: DUSTIN WONG AND TAKAKO MINEKAWA – NEW ALBUM ‘SAVAGE IMAGINATION’