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  • Review: Neil Young – Storytone

    It’s a wonder Neil Young’s ego and a 92-piece orchestra fit into the same chamber. Despite 34 differing albums before him, Neil Young found enough self-focused desire to pursue an orchestral album. A bold turn, one which Young himself told Rolling Stone is the “most different thing I’ve ever attempted”. Yet different does not always…

  • Interview – Emma Swift

    A couple of years ago, while I still lived in Sheffield, I serendipitously ran into Emma Swift. She was living in Nashville but was from Sydney. Heard her music, mostly Americana based, and found a sort of kindred spirit: a stranger in a strangeland, doing something close to the heart. Flash forward a few years, a…

  • Review: Jackson Browne – Standing in the Breach

    Browne’s first new material in six years recycles old ideas and refreshes them with modern presentation. Though touching in places, Standing in the Breach is an uncomfortable fit akin to cocktails of confusion drunk in his past. Throughout the album, Browne understands and illuminates how immoral human values – greed, violence, hatred and more –…

  • I’m less metal than you – a day at Mexico’s Hell and Heaven festival

    “But I don’t even like metal” I said before seeing it was a free ticket. Then I donned a Wet Nuns tee and hoped for the best. In this case, the best case scenario was the festival actually taking place and not getting surreptitiously cancelled by some government prick. Even if I got a free…

  • Review: Thurston Moore – The Best Day

    Sonic Youth. There, I said it. Yep, the parents of a hundred bastard art rock protagonists (will someone PLEASE explain that term?) Mommy Kim and Daddy Thurston have fallen out and dad has moved to London and he has a new band. The Best Day at first listen kinda flattens you after the first two…

  • Review: Forest Swords – Engravings

    Earth Mysteries abound. On the Wirral, Merseyside there is a demolished Churchyard that was part of a now nonexistent village once named Overchurch. While nothing of Overchurch seems to remain in what is left of the old graveyard lays the Overchurch Rune Stone which dates back to Anglo Saxon times. Engravings feels as though it…

  • Podcast: Radio Chaneque – Copeando con los Guarriors vs top 10 de terror

  • Review : Dad Rocks! – Year of the flesh

    Not only is this a very late review for a rather good album, but for all the lateness that gave leeway for a more detailed analysis, the main question remains: What genre do we put Dad Rocks! in? Folk? Too intricate for it. Baroque pop? Not enough chamber instruments, but we are getting there. Dad…

  • I can’t believe it’s not another EP round – up! Pjaro, Feature/Slowcoaches

    Hullo, you pilfering pilchards o’ Pimlico, this is our always late EP round up, where we trawl through the titanic troves of tinnitus-inducing music and bring you the best of what’s around. Or at least what WE think it’s the best of what’s around. Remember: don’t adjust your opinion. We are just a shithole of…

  • Review : Shellac – Dude Incredible

    It’s been seven barren years since Shellac bothered to release an album and some of us have waited season in, year out since Excellent Italian Greyhound hit the shelves/files sharing/general internet (delete as you use) in 2007. It has to be said that in that time we’ve endured a lot of industry hurly-burly. The frugal…