Author Archives: Alejandro De Luna

About Alejandro De Luna

Founder & Editor @ TSOD (thesenseofdoubt.com) and obsessed with the possibilities of recorded noise as a tool to squeeze your skull. Wish we were in 1977...

ALBUM REVIEW: Tiny Fingers ‘Megafauna’

Rating: Avalanches of noise combined with fat and nasty guitar riffs; endless drum beats overlapped with obscene bass lines; bitter keyboards and the mute howl of inexistent vocals that enhance the mammoth sound, in a collection of nine pieces that…

Nisennenmondai LIVE @ Birthdays, London 31.7.14

Rating: If there’s one venue in London that can claim the not so honorable prize of having one of the worst layouts for live shows, that place could be the basement at the Birthdays bar, sited in the land of…

LIVE REVIEW: Hop Farm Music Festival, 4 – 6 July 2014

Rating: “Where the heck am I?” I asked myself this question several times during the three-day return of the Hop Farm Music Festival. “Is this a rock ‘n’ roll event?” the answer´s no. Unlike other summer festivals full of tempting…

Hop Farm Music Festival: 10 unmissable acts

Hop Farm Music Festival 4-6 July, Paddock Wood, Kent. After last year´s cancellation, the festival that defends no sponsorship/no branding and embraces musical diversity is back with an eclectic line-up and some unmissable acts. Here are our ten acts you must not…

Interpol LIVE @ Electric Ballroom, London 25.6.14

Rating: Say hello again to these black angels of sombre melancholy, defying rhythmic tempos and mathematical sonic precision. Just less than three months ago, Interpol triumphantly left the iconic art-deco walls of Brixton Academy splattered with their sound. Last Wednesday,…

ALBUM REVIEW: Towns ‘Get By’

This month, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Oasis´ debut single; an essential track in the aftermath of Cobain´s suicide and the decline of grunge, it marked – along with the likes of Blur, Suede, The Verve or Pulp –…