Wolf Eyes – No Answer: Lower Floors

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Wolf Eyes – No Answer: Lower Floors

No Comments 09 May 2013

The latest releases from the Wolf Eyes collective and they are as potent and malignant as ever.

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Gravetemple, Cafe Oto, 13-14 April 2013, with Russell Haswell and Crys Cole

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Gravetemple, Cafe Oto, 13-14 April 2013, with Russell Haswell and Crys Cole

1 Comment 22 April 2013

Joseph Burnett witnesses the Stephen OMalley-led Gravetemple lay waste to the cosy confines of Cafe Oto...

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Jandek at Cafe Oto

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Jandek at Cafe Oto

No Comments 10 April 2013

A rare London performance by the unique 'outsider' singer-songwriter finds him in piano-led torch song mode, backed by some of the UK's greatest improvisors.

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Walk On: Neil Young – from the Buffalo to the Pill Part 2

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Walk On: Neil Young – from the Buffalo to the Pill Part 2

1 Comment 05 April 2013

Joseph Burnett takes a look at the career of Neil Young through the last five decades. Part 2 begins with those troublesome Eighties and brings us up to date with his literary opus Waging Heavy Peace.

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Walk On: Neil Young – from the Buffalo to the Pill Part 1

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Walk On: Neil Young – from the Buffalo to the Pill Part 1

No Comments 02 April 2013

Joseph Burnett takes a look at the career of Neil Young through the last five decades. Part 1 begins with his humble beginnings through to the Crazy Horse peaks of the late 70's.

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Gravetemple – Ambient / Ruin

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Gravetemple – Ambient / Ruin

No Comments 25 March 2013

Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O'Malley and Attila Csihar rummage in the ruins of metal, teasing out its most avant elements on this reissue of their 2008 self-released CDr.

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Alan Licht – Four Years Older

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Alan Licht – Four Years Older

1 Comment 19 March 2013

The typical riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, Alan Licht has effortlessly straddled genre and musical tropes across a career spanning the best part of three decades.

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Punk’s Kind Soul: Klaus Dinger remembered through his last project

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Punk’s Kind Soul: Klaus Dinger remembered through his last project

No Comments 06 March 2013

The final recordings of Klaus Dinger show an obsession with craft and a constant desire to build on the sounds that apparently rang through his head from the early days of Kraftwerk up until his death in 2008.

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Endless Boogie – Long Island

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Endless Boogie – Long Island

1 Comment 06 March 2013

Endless Boogie sally through 40-odd years’ worth of rock brilliance with nary a care for what’s deemed “acceptable” by the dubious modern-day arbiters of good taste.

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RM74 – Two Angles of a Triangle

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RM74 – Two Angles of a Triangle

No Comments 22 February 2013

Reto Mäder's epic and of darkly fantastical exploration of industrial textures and obtuse drones.

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