• Rangers ‘Europe on TV’

    In 1981’s Heavy Metal, two alien space truckers too stoned to fly their spacecraft efficiently, extend their elongated noses and snort ridiculous amounts of space cocaine, becoming so blitzed they fly straight into some mad, electric star gate. Along their trip, you can imagine the ships antenna would pick up Europe on TV, a garbled signal of static…

  • New Haunts ‘Worlds Left Behind’

    ‘The inanimate, the dead. Everything here lives‘ Alice Sheridan croons on album closer ‘Ice’. The sparks which fly off these contradictions fuel New Haunts‘s debut LP Worlds Left Behind both aurally and lyrically, the antagonism between light and dark, beauty and horror. Worlds Left Behind, mastered and mixed at Bristol’s Free House Studios, is nine tracks of dark-wave,…

  • Girl Pusher ‘911’

    Blood, sweat, and clown grease paint frequently mulch Gabby Giuliano’s grimacing face towards the end of their punishing sets. Offering violence as catharsis, Girl Pusher provides sanctuary from a world growing uglier day by day, holding the agents of misogyny and prejudice to bloody account amid split lips, static screams, and digital venom. Hollywood cyber…

  • audiobooks ‘Now! (in a minute)’

    Britain is in a strange place right now, and there’s no lacking in a unique weirdness to mine and plunder. Now! (in a minute) is a glorious conduit of the surrealism and eccentricity which lies unassuming in the heart of our collective everyday routine and ‘normality’. Electronic duo and aptly named audiobooks was conceived almost without trying. Meeting…

  • Heads on Sticks 2018

    The amount of fantastic music that made 2018 makes creating a playlist an arduous task. Originally totaling 50+ songs, the painful, gut-wrenching process of elimination to just 25 songs demonstrated just how many tracks there were I loved. This is no objective best of, but a purely subjective collation of the songs that sound tracked…

  • KOKOKO! ‘Liboso’

    Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of the Congo, is where the party is right now. Protest and post-punk soundtrack the streets of Lingwala, recalling the no-wave iconoclasm from the ruins of late 70s New York. Spearheading the new Congolese agit-punk movement is KOKOKO!, fronted by ‘Zagué’ force of nature Makara Bianko and production from…

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