The album starts of in typical Trail of Dead fashion; with noise, sweet glorious noise. ‘Introduction: Let Us Experiment’ is already one of my favourite pieces of music of the year and there is barely anything to it. It blends seamlessly (a trend that …

Massive, just massive. That’s the feeling one gets from listening to ‘Helioscope’, the second album from Leeds based auditory sculptors Vessels. Massive in sound; the production is awesome, giving the band a huge canvas on which the band paint their so …

Holy. Shit. That was pretty much my reaction when I pressed play on ‘La Ligne Âpre’ by Tormenta.  Never having heard of these guys before I genuinely had no idea what they sounded like beyond the fact they were on the increasingly consistently brillian …

Ok, so I know we don’t usually cover live albums but then it’s not every day that my favourite ever band from my formative years releases a live album and it’s not every day that a live album is this damn good. ‘Live on I5’ was recorded on Soundgarden’ …

If I were to start a search for the next great English Prog rock band I think it’s fair to say that Salford would not naturally be the first place that I would look. The leafy streets of Cambridge maybe? Certainly the rolling hills of the Home Counties …

Norman Palm is something of an individualist, to say the least. ‘Shore To Shore’ is his first proper album but he previously self released a 200 page artbook with accompanying soundtrack. It is from this fervid imagination that this record springs and …

I whooped with joy when I heard Dinosaur Jr’s front man had plans to release his first ever solo album.  The celebration continued when I heard it was going to be acoustic – nothing I love more than a man and his guitar. J Mascis has been heading the l …

Tall Ships’ second album ‘On Tariffs And Discovery’ is an intriguing affair and remarkably difficult to pin down a description on, which is why it has taken me so bloody long to get this review written. On the surface it seems to be nice, polished indi …

If I remember rightly, when I was researching Team Horse to review EP ‘Here Come the Hurricane’, the only band he (keep up, folks, it’s a one-man show) namechecked was Lightning Bolt.  This time, his Bandcamp site also mentions Jesu, Mogwai, and DJ Sha …

Warning: The following article contains puns that some readers may find tenuous or downright spurious. Sorry – Ed. For me ‘You’re An Ocean Deep, My Brother’ by Firesuite was something of a slow burner. On first listen I thought ‘Yeah, that’s nice enoug …

You know those nights when you’ve got nothing planned and you’re perfectly content to sit around in your PJs watching crap TV, eating pizza and contemplating your navel and then, out of the blue, one of your mates texts and asks if you want to go to a …

Rumour Cubes are a London based sextet, violin and viola augment and expand a traditional two guitar, bass and drums line up, that make hugely epic, musically dense, cinematic instrumental rock soundscapes. This brings inevitable comparisons with the l …

Here at Echoes And Dust there are a number of reasons why we have a huge soft spot for Elbow but principle amongst them is that ‘Seldom Seen Kid’ was the very first album we reviewed on the site. In the intervening three years they’ve done pretty much …

I’ll be honest, I have no idea how to rate this album. From what I am told instrumental albums are usually best appreciated as background music while you pretend to do work on your Apple Macbook. Unfortunately that would not make for a particularly int …