Liverpool Sound City 2012
#progressive
Album Review
Orcus Chylde / Orcus Chylde
Erstwhile Band of the Week Orcus Chylde have spun a spider web of European psych/prog rock with their self-titled debut. But whoa there if you're thinking it's going to be a throwback fantasy; their plunder from the era is the album-long...
Album Review
Incoming Cerebral Overdrive / Le Stelle - A Voyage Adrift
...in which the wired Tuscan post-hardcore types add a whole new dimension of depth and tone to their previous work. The first thing that strikes me about 'Le Stelle – A Voyage Adrift' is a pretty unique guitar style on the first...
Gig
Whoever put this line up together has been pretty shrewd. There's something here for every Mastodon fan as an apéritif before the main course; could the night match my bloated expectations?
Red Fang are the ideal men to agitate the...
Album Stubble - Unsigned
Cloudkicker / Let Yourself Be Huge
Up until this point, Cloudkicker’s reputation has rested some pretty righteous slabs of instrumental and technical post-metal. 2010’s Beacons earned wide praise for its combination of furious polymetric riffing and unsettling,...
EP Review
Last Days of Lorca / Last Days of Lorca EP
Brighton's Last days of Lorca make melodic, sweeping enormodrome rock and carve an edge into it by harnessing the angular capriciousness of 'De-loused in the Comatorium'-era Mars Volta.
Strangely, for all the frenetic, super-tight...
Album Review
Howard James Kenny / Shelter Songs
I have had in my possession for some time now a promotional copy of Howard James Kenny’s first single release, Insects, but for one reason or another had not got round to putting pen to paper over it [other than an exchange with Honch about...
