Rating: Eight years from their eponymous debut, Snowdonias Yucatan release Uwch Gopa’r Mynydd (Above the Mountain Summit). The album is a love-letter to their habitat, the expanse of the wildscapes and rough-hues of the mountains and the elements. Similar in…
Rating: Electronic Calendar: The EMS Tapes is the first complete retrospective of his earliest experiments in 1965 through the bankruptcy of his company, EMS Synthesizers, in 1979. Stifled by academia, Peter Zinovieff began creating music from splices of tape and after…
Rating: Anton Newcombe, Il Capo of the wonderful titled portmanteau The Brian Jonestown Massacre, has resolutely adhered to this dictum over the past 25 years, releasing 14 albums and hiring and firing numerous adhocs along the way; his spat with…
Rating: Dark Matter/Dark Energy is the first Membranes album since 1989 and was inspired by a conversation with CERN’s Joe Incandela about the Higgs Boson particle and by the death of Robb’s father.The album is a meditation on life/death/afterlife in the…
Rating: His sonorous, deep croon uniquely melancholic and sorrowful. Twenty-eight years on he returns with new long-player Blind Faith; his first in six years and one funded through Pledgemusic. ‘The Love Show’ kicks off the foreplay with sweeping strings with…
Rating: 2009’s uber-successful My One And Only Thrill saw Melody Gardot teaming up with renowned producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, Madeleine Peyroux) and continued the gradual assimilations of tropical elements into her music. This was expanded further on 2012’s…
Rating: The ever-irascible Mark E. Smith has, amongst other names, been called a tyrant, dictator, despot; a one-man operation/wrecking ball autodidact, with his propensity for hiring and firing garnering almost as much copy as the music itself. He’s post-punk’s Captain…
Beloved of John Peel and emissaries of the pre ‘indie’ independent music scene, The Wedding Present remain masters of choppy, melodic ditties about (un)requited love, adept at articulating the quotidian events we all live through. We managed to doorstep lead-auteur David…
Rating: Billed as “themes from an imaginary film”, MG in many ways pays homage to the film work of Vangelis and Tangerine Dream. This is a nod and wink to his influences both as a band member and as an individual,…
The extravagantly attired group put the art into artifice and the mode into post-modern, before a disastrous union with (s)hitmakers Stock Aitken and Waterman saw them consigned to the dustbin of history, with subsequent internal disputes ruling out any reformation….