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The Eye of Time / The Eye of Time
“We are corpses; walking dead...we are ghosts in the supermarkets of life.” The accompanying notes for 'The Eye of Time' refer directly to the anger, shame, resignation and...
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Peter Broderick / Music for Confluence
It's nice when your friends instictively know what music you'd like. This is one of those times and I'm feeling happy to listen. I've been dormant for a while, off the radar so to...
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Earth / Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
Earth’s guitarist and sole permanent member, Dylan Carson, is a totemic figure who has cast a huge shadow across the American underground. Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version’s...
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Ă“lafur Arnalds / Living Room Songs
During October 2011, Ólafur Arnalds created and released a new song for each day of one week. The songs were recorded and filmed live in the living room of his Reykjavik apartment and the...
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The Caretaker / Patience (After Sebald)
Last year’s album An Empty Bliss Beyond this world was an album critically applauded for its use of carefully selected samples and the experimental inspiration for the project: Alzheimer’...
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The Mark Lanegan Band / Blues Funeral
It’s freezing cold. I have a sort of flu that is making my face ache. I haven’t written a review for ages. I’m not even sure I remember where to start. There...
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Alkerdeel / Morinde
Alkerdeel, of Zomergem, East Flanders, aptly bracket themselves as 'blacksludgedoomdrone', so that takes care of that task. 'Morinde' has a kind of sonic chasm running through it, as...
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Wino & Conny Ochs / Heavy Kingdom
The King Arthur of doom, Scott Weinrich (Saint Vitus, The Obsessesed, Spirit Caravan, Shrinebuilder et al) here teams up with German singer-songwriter Conny Ochs for an album of predominantly...
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Saturday Night Gym Club / How to Build a Life Raft
As current trends in electronic music become harder and harder to pin down, it feels as though the indie music scene is attempting to follow suit, leading to a sudden increase in the number of...
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Nitkowski / Stay In The Home You Love
You like walking in bad weather? 'Stay In The Home You Love' is a great accompaniment for that. You get soaked, you get cold, then you get really pissed off at God or Probability or whatever...
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Einar Stray / Chiaroscuro
It can sometimes be quite difficult to instantly connect with an artist or piece of music, probably due the sheer volume of music I listen to on a daily basis. Sometimes I hear a band once and it...
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Katzenjammer / A Kiss Before You Go
As a band, Katzenjammer are primarily distinguished by their complete lack of facial hair, despite, to their lasting chagrin, hailing from Norway, the land of the Vikings. In fact, all four members...
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El Dog / Hey Werewolves
Honch clocking in. Towards the end of last year, I let things slip in favor of getting absolutely wankered in an attempt to drown out my unbridled hatred for the festive period. Well, now the dust...
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Cut Yourself in Half / Say Goodbye to The World / Psycho Human Being Disaster
Two tracks of steamhammer desert riff gallop with a touch of bombed 70's psych from Bratfer's Cut Yourself in Half. It's not going to get you pondering the future of western civilization...
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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....
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Alcest / Les Voyages de l'Ă‚me
It’s fair to say that I think 2011 was a pretty mediocre year, musically speaking. Sure there were some good albums but only a handful were truly brilliant. It seems 2011 may have been a glitch...
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