Edinburgh’s North Atlantic Oscillation have kicked up one hell of a metaphorical storm on ‘Fog Electric’, their second album. From its haunting synth foundations, to myriad samples and lyrics of being lost and found, this is an album whose leitmotif ev …

I find it slightly amusing that, to some, Anathema are still considered a metal band. They can’t seem to shake off their past, even though they haven’t produced music that could be described as metal of any sort in about fifteen years. The Liverpool-ba …

Angry embers rupture through this seemingly unholy script, it meets the mood of solitude and unbalanced emotion. Incredibly heavy and thought provoking, making you crumble from inside leaving you with an impressive after thought which embeds itself in …

Haunting. Ethereal. Melodious – just three ways to describe Seluah’s ‘Red Parole’. After a 10 year absence the band return with a new album packed with guitar riffs, drum beats and vocals as well as the odd pleasant though admittedly unexpected aural s …

There is something to be said about listening to loud music; just letting the noise wash over you and consume your senses. A strange thing begins to happen, your body begins beating in rhythm with the music. This is one of the incredible things about l …

For a band with a relatively long name, Retribution Gospel Choir play short songs. So short in fact, that this EP clocks in at under 12 minutes. For fans of Low who have picked RGC up due to the fact two of its members also play in this band, any quest …

Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown are dead; long live Dan Boeckner and Spencer Krug’s boundless creativity. The former’s shifted his focus towards Handsome Furs, who released the predictably excellent Sound Kapital last year; the latter, meanwhile, quietl …

Sleepy Sun hail from San Francisco, California and their sound is rooted in the psychedelic vibe of the area. While Sleepy Sun adhere to that vibe they also blend other genres into their music creating an infectious and deeply melodic sound. ‘Spine Hit …

You might be forgiven for sensing traces of that all too common formula for creating the perfect post rock album in Jet Plane’s latest offering, ‘All The Static Stars’. On first listen, you can hear how faithful they are to the doctrine: find a melody, …

Just as ‘Calaveras’ release from last year was my early Christmas present, so happy I was to hear I get to get another one from the same band this year! ‘Christmas 86’ (nomen omen) is a 5 track EP from Upcdownc, released not even half a year after thei …

Who would have thought you could do so much in four short songs. Each so unique, so full of personality, yet coming together in a neat bundle. Post-metal really is peaking right now and Pelican claims its share of the view from the summit with “Ataraxi …

2012 is looking to be a loud year and, well, why not? With recent trends of dubby steps and shoegazing we could all probably do with a riff or two to remind us of the importance of good old rock music. So, who better to shake things up again than newco …

When Sufjan Stevens unleashed the neon-bright, widescreen extravaganza of his ‘The Age of Adz’ live show on UK audiences just under a year ago, mine was one of many voices proclaiming it probably the best gig they’d ever witnessed. To the bewilderment …

So the first Symbiosis event went really well – all the bands were great, and as some of you know already E&D nominees Three Colours were voted to go through to the final *smug look*. For those of you new to this, CogDissPR asked their favourite passio …

Popping up from the Manchurian music scene is The Punch House, a duo from ‘the Reddish/Gorton Badlands’. Well, all I can say that it can’t be all bad with multi-instrumentalists Phil and Tom giving us their first offering for the wider public in their …

Yorkshire-based artists come together for this split EP comprising three original songs bolstered by a couple of reissues. Broadly folk in flavour, it flutters a little uncertainly between the tumbleweed gravel-tones of Plock and the breezy picnic deli …

There’s something indescribably kinky going down on the cover of Kins’ debut, and given the title’s reference to whipped cream, it’s fair to assume that there may be something deviant on the groove here. Either that, or American college rock. It’s a hu …

I first heard Jarek when I turned up to a sleepmakeswaves gig and they were playing first support. I was awestruck by the complexity and originality of their sound and the uniqueness of their instrumentation, not to mention their skill levels. I was ke …

Working on your own to create and perform music gives you a huge level of freedom. The freedom you get when shackled to a post. There’s no one to get in your way or to help stop you making a mistake. No one to share the credit and no one to help should …

To borrow from the band themselves, the a capella section on ‘Jupiter’, the closing track from the Futureheads’s last album, ‘The Chaos’, really was ‘the beginning of the twist’. In hindsight, people should have foreseen them doing an album like ‘Rant’ …