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Kelan ‘Downtown’
Bristol’s potent underground has Max Kelan Pearce’s grubby fingerprints all over it. From Salac‘s arcane rituals, Bad Tracking‘s circuit-fried electronics, to the post-punk DJ sets under Slack Alice, Pearce’s many projects and collaborations have yielded a towering reputation within the Avon avant-garde. Twisting Ministry’s infamous metal fence from their ’89 tour into an enclosed cage…
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SuperCheri ‘Featurette’
It’s already become a cliche to label any artist’s work born around the ‘Great Lockdown’ of 2020 as being accordingly inspired or shaped by the contemplative pause that beset most of the World, yet pensive material indeed came from the sudden halt of reflective uncertainty. Take SuperCheri’s Featurette as a case in point. Suspending guitar duties with…
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Secret Agent Headcheese ‘Sinful Souls’
According to UFO Identified founder and researcher Ash Ellis, eight sightings of unidentified flying objects were reported in South Yorkshire, three in the market town of Barnsley, with wearebarnsley detailing the sighting of a “silver sausage-shaped object approximately 600 feet long turning black then disappearing”. Is it a coincidence that self-described ‘psyop disaster’ Secret Agent Headcheese has been crafting a conspiratorial…
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Part Time Filth ‘300 Pounds of Hate’
Part time filth. What does that mean? Is it the sordid fetor that rots underneath the pillars of respectability? The pervert teacher, the MAGA cop? Perhaps it’s the petty cruelties doled out by the guy who eats his boss’ shit Monday to Friday, waiting for his turn to hurl indignities at the weekend cashier not…
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Sweet Knives ‘Spritzerita’
Not since New Order’s birth from the ashes of Joy Division has a band been able to reach the giddy heights of its much-loved predecessor. After 2005’s tumultuous final gig in Stuttgart, self-styled ‘black-wave’ outfit Lost Sounds called it quits and between them pursued a plethora of projects including Alicja-Pop, and Lover!. From the sad passing of garage-rock legend…
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Flop Machine ‘Machine Beat Rock And Roll’
The synthpunk renaissance has reached Norway! Like a nuclear accident, the mutoid garage-rock disaster that’s feverishly gnawing on the fringes of Australia and the U.S has now found its corrosive reach further afield. Akin to Chernobyl’s toxic clouds blowing across Scandanavia with radioactive decay, the city of Bergen has found itself infected with its own…
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