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Review: Gate - Saturday Night Fever

Just like when Spinal Tap lose themselves in the labyrinth of the backstage area on their way to perform, I find myself unable to escape the airlock of the disco entrance corridor. I take endless turns down numerous dim hallways – tantalisingly close to the party in a nearby room – yet

Review: Black Dirt Oak - Wawayanda Patent

Wawayanda Patent sounds to me like an isolated record. Not just during those moments where grubby fingernails send banjo strings into twang, painting an image of a sloping shack of a recording studio lodged uncomfortably among fields of corn, somewhere upon a rippling scorched horizon; more for the way in

Review: Koboku Senju - Joining The Queue To Become One Of Those Ordinary Ghosts

I feel as though I’m stuck in a cramped elevator; brass and woodwind grunt and gasp as they shuffle to release trapped limbs, feedback sets every surrounding wall into unsteadying vibration, thin strips of noisy electronics writhe through any slight gap they can find. The sound is far too

Review: Birchall/Cheetham Duo - Tipping Point

When homing in on the minute details of Tipping Point – the sounds and mutations that occur second by second – David Birchall (guitar) and Andrew Cheetham (drums) appear to have a very warped, jittery relationship. Taut strings are pinged and flicked, pitches are bent untidily like the output of a broken

Review: Richard Youngs - Amaranthine

Much of Amaranthine is loose and without pre-determining thought. Its percussion pounds and shakes and clangs, ignorant to rhythmic unity in favour of simply sounding and expressing; rhythm is there, but it exists as an energy and a voice rather than as a mere timekeeper. Youngs’ voice is beautiful – quivering