• Carvento Felana ‘Malduvo’

    Bruised gums and grinding teeth behind a lens of CRT distortion is a succinct warning that this EP bites. Once again utilising Basque conceptual artist Pepo Salazar Lacruz’s striking conceptual artwork, Valencian experimental duo Carvento Felana take a step forward away from their self-titled LP’s dashes of ‘zolo’ surrealism with a coarser spike of electro-punk grit. Malduvo sees…

  • Heads on Sticks 2022

    Collating the end-of-year round-ups has become an annual fixture as seasonally traditional as dodgy eggnog and unprepared NY plans, a festive marker that truly signals the arrival of Yule Tidings an’ all that. It’s a welcome and joyous occasion each year when the time comes to recall the volume of new music that’s made its…

  • Metal Preyers ‘Shadow Swamps’

    Since as early as 2015, multi-disciplinary artist Mariano Chavez has been crafting strange, humanoid beings made of wasps nests, honeycombs, and shed snakeskin. Exhibited at New York City’s John Molloy Gallery alongside Mark Kindschi’s hammered steel pieces exploring “the interface between nature and the human species”, the encaustic mottled masks and busts that adorned the Transfigurations showcase…

  • Smooch ‘A Force To Be Rockin’ With’

    An essential feature of any mid-70s glam rock LP was the assured emblazoning of your debut LP’s cover with a band shot in full glamour and attitude. Kiss, New York Dolls, and Love It to Death all broke with the stodgy, prog concept artworks that clogged the music stores in favour of dazzling snapshots of glittered superheroes or androgynous…

  • Polute ‘Polute’

    “We are Motörhead and we play rock ‘n’ roll” was the typical introductory greeting frontman and bassist Lemmy would greet any audience with, whether an arena full of loyal, greasy-haired headbangers at a headline show or an afternoon slot on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival ’15. Straddling that line of speed-snorted thrash and NWOBHM…

  • Ä.I.D.S. ‘The Road to Nuclear Holocaust’

    According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the infamous ‘Doomsday Clock’ used to measure the likelihood of global destruction is currently 100 seconds to midnight, the closest the hands have ever signalled Armageddon in its 75 year history. From tense American relations with Russia and China, deadly innovations in hypersonic missiles and anti-satellite weaponry, and…

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