This book, Going For A Song by Garth Cartwright, is a comprehensive dérive through the rapidly vanishing terrain that is the British record shop. Once a staple of communities that acted as hubs, beacons, locales and sanctuaries for keen ears,…
Thirty years on from Glasgow’s infamous gangland ‘Ice Cream Wars’ comes Scot songstress LUCIA with the appetite-whetting (is it or isn’t it a metaphorical sex ode?) ‘Melted Ice Cream’. In Intimacy, Identity, and Ice Cream: Teaching Teens and Young Adults to…
Manchester, Northern England, heavy rainfall, typically dark, a remedy is required. Step forward quintet Astral Project who provide a tab of sonic-soma narco-bliss of glorious technicolour; ‘Athena’ is a fuzz-laden fillip to counteract today’s fauxhemian fellows and their fancy-dress showmanship….
Some records act as time-signifiers, articulating the socio-politico-emoticomplex so deftly that they will be seen as para-psychic texts for millennia to come. The Black Angels‘ Death Song is one such objet d’art. With sonic sculpting from Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, The…
Recently Gigslutz sought a response to those perennial blowhards Kasabian’s ever-tiresome yawn-boast that they are the ‘saviours of guitar rock’, the response a unanimous ‘up yours’ to the ersatz-Northern clowns. To add to the list of alt-axe-gods to believe in…
In these post-modern, fake-news, truth-plus, hyper-dissonant times Manchester’s Shaking Chains are here to salve, ease and rescue all lost souls from their corporatised socio-anxiety. With a name derived from P. Shelley’s (Percy Bysshe not Buzzcock Pete) The Masque of Anarchy, this…
Never one to sit still, 27-time Grammy Award winner (including 2007’s globe–bestriding collaboration with Robert Plant Raising Sand) Alison Krauss returns with her first solo album in 17 years, the historiographical and curatorial Windy City. Adopting a novel approach in her work this…
Neo-noir Scandimonium abounds on this synth-etiquette sonata from Danske dancer Lucas Berner a.k.a. The Chairman. With echoes of Deptford Goth’s hermetic chamber pop-somnambulance and Bon Iver’s wyrd-eerie-pherics, this release is the product of the culmination of the cathartic process. A self-introspective…
Six years on from the last LP Anti-Gravity, indie-doyens The Blue Aeroplanes return with their inimitable Bristolian ‘swagger’ and increased ‘beatsongs’. Contemporaries) of REM-embers Stipe and Mills (1991’s seminal album Swagger a favourite) and glumbient sorrow-foragers Radiohead the past year…
Rating: Aside from featuring on the seminal C86 collection issued by the New Musical Express in … 1986, underground-alt-godheads The Wolfhounds released prolifically-terrifically before disbanding in 1990. Their distinctive sound was ripe for a return in 2005; a reminder to…