Anthroprophh – Precession (2014) review
Anthroprophh “Precession” 12” (Cardinal Fuzz, 2014) This spacey quartet’s unfortunate moniker reads more like a typo than a band name, but the wigged-out vibes nestled within make it...
Jeff Penczak
Whizz Kid – There’s Conjuring To Be Done (2014) review
Whizz Kid “There’s Conjuring To Be Done” (Bearsuit, 2014) Whizz Kid is another in the long line of Bearsuit’s international collaborations,...
Backnee Horn – III (2012) review
Backnee Horn "III" (Self-released, 2012) Holy shit, Batman, what the hell is this? Two hours of brain-rattling hypnosis spread across three slabs of vinyl, all the way from...
Children of The Stones – The Stars and The Silence (2014) review
Children of The Stones “The Stars and The Silence” (Saint Marie, 2014) Here is the full length we alluded to in our review of last month’s “Extended Play”...
Trappist Afterland Band – ‘Like A Beehive, The Hill Was Alive’ (2014) review
Nathan Ford recently expanded his popular music blog The Active Listener into the realm of digital downloads, making some of his favourite releases available to the masses. The...
The Diaphanoids – LSME (2014) review
The Diaphanoids “LSME” (Tirk, 2014) It’s psychedelic funk (or funkadelic psych) from another planet, baby, as the Italian duo (Andrea Bellentani and Simon Maccari) return with another set...
The Cult of Dom Keller – ‘The Second Bardo’ (2014)
Ultra-heavy burning psych on delirious bi-colour swirling vinyl from the Nottingham psychonauts picks up where their debut left off and pumps up the volume and lysergic juices even...
Alan Davey – ‘Al Chemical’s Lysergic Orchestra Vol. 2’ (2013)
The erstwhile Hawkwind/Hawklord/Psychedelic Warlord bassist survived two stints across a couple of decades in Dave Brock’s concentration camp/looney bin, contributing to nearly two dozen releases before opting for...
Papir – IIII (2014) review
Papir "IIII" (El Paraiso Records, 2014) As the title suggests, this is the fourth album from Papir, a Danish post-rock trio with jazzy overtones who rely on intricate...
Jakob Skøtt – Amor Fati (2014) review
Jakob Skøtt “Amor Fati” (El Paraiso, 2014) Causa Sui drummer Skøtt began El Paraiso to release his band’s albums and this is his second solo effort. It opens...