Osees – Protean Threat
Castle Face“picking up this particular receiver always feels like listening in to some premium-charge sex-line”
Reviews
Eternell – Imagined Distances
Sound In Silence‘a stunning entry into the world of downtempo, ambient dreampop’
White Manna – ARC
Cardinal Fuzz/Centripetal Force“a lot of their former feedback and fuzz further disappearing in the rear-view mirror, White Manna are now content to just jam it out”
Secret Drum Machine – Chuva
Moon GlyphThis “rhythmic work-out of a sophomore album draws its influence from insect sentience and ecological synesthesia, their music intended to evoke senses other than the auditory”
Cloud Factory – # 1 EP
Howlin' BananaA surprisingly decent listen “influenced by indie-pop, post-punk and – don’t wince – Britpop”
Naujawanan Baidar – Volume 1&2
Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube“A celebration of the intoxicating sounds of 1960s-80s Afghan cassette culture”
Sons Of Southern Ulster – Sinners And Lost Souls
HT/Avalanche Records“You’d be hard pressed to find a record which better describes the feeling of 2020.”
Nest Egg – Dislocation
Acid Test Recordings/Little Cloud Records“bleak kosmische staring down the barrel of hard-psych”
Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network – Ballet Of Apes
Castle Face“Ballet Of Apes is pretty cool the more you get to know it. Just don’t go expecting it to put out on the first date.”
Aaron Space & His Terrestrial Underlings – Fishland
Moon Glyph“Think music’s all out of ideas these days? Think again. Fishland is nothing if not unique.”
Munehiro Narita – Live P.S.F.
Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube Records“Narita slays, his Live PSF a siren call for all absent gig-goers the world over.”
Banshee – Livin’ In The Jungle
Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube“There probably won’t be a stronger out-and-out rock ‘n’ roll record this year”
Damaged Bug – Bug On Yonkers
Castle FaceJohn Dwyer rips up the inspirational Michael Yonkers catalogue for a tender covers LP.
Document – A Camera Wanders All Night EP
Ramber Records“Keen students of post-punk history, normcore heroes Document also draw from all the genre’s best contemporaries”
ZekeUltra – (The Power Of) The Will Of Man
Home Assembly Music“I have no idea what ZekeUltra’s record collection looks like … an obscure hot pot of the weird and wonderful perhaps”