Writer Profile: Alex Wilson

Alex Wilson

Location: Sydney

Beard: Yes

Tattoos: No

Favourite Tipple: Good Ale

1st Music Purchase: 100% Hits – The Best of 1997

Best Famous Beard: Grizzly Adams

Guilty Pleasure: Spandau Ballet’s “True”

Twitter: @alxwlsn

My recent activity

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,...

Album Review

Apparat / The Devil's Walk

Apparat (the solo moniker of Sascha Ring) has spent the last few years and albums refining his particular brand of digital shoegaze, which courts both the skittery, disjointed aesthetic of IDM and the gauzy, initimate textures of ambient electro in...

Album Review

Animals As Leaders / Weightless

When Animals as Leaders dropped their first self-titled release in 2009, it caused a justifiable stir in the metal underground. The band’s mastermind, the noticeably beardless guitar wrangler Tosin Abasi, had burst upon the world with his...