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  • Video: Echodrone – Save Me

    Super excited to bring you the brand new video by Shoegaze darlings, Echodrone. ‘Save Me’ hastily soars towards the sky, trembling the ground with supersonic waves of proper shoegaze.  Past, Preset and Future. their upcoming album, is a feast of warm reverb, dreamy soundscapes, and a hazy vast panorama, a reminder that shoegaze has a…

  • Singles Round-up: Slowcoaches, Nnux, Hot Soles

        Slowcoaches – Complex After last year’s brutal Nothing Gives, Slowcoaches come back with a savage track, ‘Complex’. The slow build-up is akin to getting a late night notification in a quake app: something comes and it will rattle the place. The lesson from the track? That’s for you to find, but here’s my…

  • Dual Review: Godspeed You Black Emperor – Luciferian Towers // Ryuchi Sakamoto – async

    “Adventures in an of Age of Anxiety”. I play Ryuichi Sakamoto async. There is no road map anymore. No revolution just a seemingly quiet acceptance of the way it is. A few heads pop up above the parapet causing a few ripples but mostly we are just living ‘in quiet desperation.’ There is plenty to…

  • Review: Android Automatic – Mojave

    The continuous existence of the synthwave genre fills me with joy. Every release, tinted in loud neon colours, shines as bright as the memories one holds for a decade that seems to have an infinite luster. The heavy synth sounds and pop sensibilities lent themselves to catchy tunes and Mojave, the latest by Android Automatic,…

  • Review: Reverend & The Makers – The Death of a King

    On their sixth album, Reverend & the Makers continue on that path they started to explore in 2015’s Mirrors. A change in sound that conveys both maturity and a need to move away from a genre they knew too well and exhausted with their first two albums. The Death of a King goes for a…

  • Interview: Actual Wolf

      Eric Pollard has an interesting musical career. Keys for Low, drumming for Retribution Gospel Choir and Sun Kil Moon and body and soul devoted to Actual Wolf, his country project. With an enviable back catalogue that covers the spectrum from home made demos to fully produced, crisp tracks, the music of Actual Wolf mixes classics…

  • Review: Oxo Foxo – Dusk

    There comes a time in your life when you cynically recognise that we all are stuck in a loop. This rut can be soul-crushing and you pray for an imperfection can help you skip out and move forward or damn you to get stuck forever in a groove. Without wanting to impose my own interpretation…

  • Review: Belafonte Sensacional – Destroy

    Lightning in a bottle. That’s it, the only way to describe the folly of capturing Belafonte Sensacional‘s impossibly energetic live show on tape. It could be a Bible truth if it weren’t for the fact that Destroy, their newest EP, manages to catch their fierce sounds. ‘Convocatoria al destroy’ and ‘Ponte al tiro’ are live staples that…

  • Review: The War on Drugs – A deeper understanding

    Philadelphia‘s bare-brick buildings, harsh holiday heat, and chafed charm made for a sublime if tiring summer holiday. Coming directly from New York, Philadelphia offered brief albeit humid respite to Manhattan’s oppressive, bewildering pace. Whether walking down Walnut Street, following the meandering Delaware river, or ambling through Fishtown, there’s a whimsical world around you bubbling with…

  • Review: Luis Membrillo // Marcos Hassan – Línea / Curva

    Music and Literature. Always a good mix, like a root beer float on a warm, arid day. A plethora of songs have been written about characters, books, and authors. Conversely, several books tap into the music zeitgeist for inspiration, epigraphs, and street cred. Now, a book and an album dovetailed as a single product? That’s…