The trilogy is complete. For anyone that missed the first parts- after a painful, life-changing event, Hammock set about composing music to help cope and process. And while the resulting records don’t quite sync up with the recognised stages of grief, after the heartache of 2017’s ‘Mysterium’, and the sense of mending and cautious hope on ‘Universalis’, the Nashville-based duo […]
Read moreEvolution is a funny thing. It can be beautiful, or at least yield beautiful results, but progress, the process of change, is often awkward and ugly and odd. When Have a Nice Life (who have previously sounded like they want you to have anything but) unveiled the first single from this, their third full length, it was clear some change […]
Read moreFrom chilling neo-classical to firebreathing hardcore, shimmering indie melodies to whatever Emptyset’s new noise should be properly classified as, I hope you find something to love. KEATON HENSON- Trauma/In Chao STORM(O)- Trema THE WARRIORS- Death Ritual RENOUNCED- Beauty Is a Destructive Angel COLORED MOTH– Cognitive Bliss POST/BOREDOM- Limb Alert GIANTS CHAIR- Dirty Winter NIGHT SWIMMING- Clean QUIET LIONS- Arc of […]
Read moreThe Shaking Sensations were over, finished, done. After more than a decade and three records together, the Danish outfit felt they had accomplished what they’d set out to do. They’d gone from covering grunge classics and aping post-rock pioneers to sharing world stages with the genre’s best, and, in 2013’s ‘Start Stop Worrying’, had set a benchmark they themselves felt […]
Read moreDepending on how you look at it, Golden Core’s debut album was adorned with one of the best or worst album covers of all time. Fans of stock goat photography will be disappointed but sophomore effort ‘Fimbultýr’ features more fitting, grown-up artwork, and it reflects a startling newfound sonic maturity within. You can hear it in the first minute of […]
Read moreThis will come as a surprise to some. Timelost is a new project from a couple of self-described metalheads- Shane Handal of post-metallers Set and Setting, and Grzesiek Czapla, the drummer of the officially heavy-as-shit Woe. But ‘Don’t Remember Me for This’, their debut album, is 40 minutes of deep and warm shoegaze-tinged grunge. Maybe it’s just my weird brain […]
Read moreLakes might have chosen an unremarkable yet oft-used moniker but it’s pretty much the only foot the Watford six-piece have put wrong since forming in 2017. Their debut full-length, each track named after a lake, natch, is polished emo for fans of TTNG, Owen, and Into It, Over It. Glockenspiel!
Read moreKeaton Henson is best known as one of the most solemn singer songwriters of recent years. His guitar gently weeps. His voice will break your heart. ‘Six Lethargies’, composed by Henson but performed by The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, might be a surprise then. There is no guitar. There is no voice. There aren’t really songs. Instead there are minimalist […]
Read moreAhead of the release of their debut album ‘Don’t Remember Me For This’ on October 25th via Golden Antenna, Philadelphia-based trio Timelost have released a suitably raucous video for the track ‘Heart Garbage’. Get into it.
Read moreMaybe it’s the rain outside my window, maybe it’s the state of western politics, or, just maybe, it’s the apparently unstoppable, slow, steady demise of the planet, but there’s more bitter, twisted and angry content on this month’s playlist than the few before it combined. I hope you find some catharsis or at least turn it up so loud you […]
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