Sophia – Holding On / Letting Go
Flower Shop Recordings. P.I.A.S.Another Sophia album and its another good one.
Reviews
Future Islands – As Long As You Are
4AD“a good band not quite able or willing to become a great one.”
Asteroid No.4 – Northern Songs
“a strongly melodic, fuzzy delight start to finish” from the psyche veterans.
Osees – Protean Threat
Castle Face“picking up this particular receiver always feels like listening in to some premium-charge sex-line”
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.”