It helps if you’re able to write great songs to sing and Howling Bells sure know their way round a melody.

I still can’t explain exactly what happened, but all the stars aligned that night. There was an atmosphere of hope in the performance, a departure from the more pessimistic tone of Triumph and Disaster. It was a night when the band could finally mentally move on from Departure Songs. . . That’s not a sad thing: it’s an affirmation of the strength of their ongoing writing and live performances.

Insatiable is another defiant release from an exciting and talented artist.

Their songs are like glimmers of sunshine on a partly cloudy day.

Love Changes Everything is truly a magical experience.

A very intriguing combination of prog and modern classical music that also has connections to both post-rock and ambient genres, notifying us that prog rock has still some trick up its sleeve.

Fans of the flare and musicality of prog/metal and rock bands will be right at home with the Terrestrials sound.

PetroDragonic Apocalypse is a remarkable album for 2023. If you’re new to the band’s music, this one will knock your socks off.

Gavin Brown caught up with Clinton “Bär” McKinnon from Umlaut, who told us all about the new song, his time with Mr Bungle and other bands and more.

Great instrumental post-rock from Australia hitting exciting new highs and some darker deeper levels. Do not sleep on it.

Systemic is concise and dynamically perfect and has to be played as loud as possible to truly experience its magnitude and power.

If this first taste of the band’s material is anything to go by, we have a lot to look forward to!

Well worth your time to sit, space out and get swept away with a tide of tones, melodies and crashing walls of noise.

One of the many strengths of this band is their penchant for insanely catchy, top shelf melodies.

They’ve tapped into the psych gaze genre in a big way. It is inherently part of their cheery sound, music for a long drive or a sunny day at the beach.

I feel there is much more to come from Divide and Dissolve, Gas Lit is an astounding beautiful beast of an album.

Photo: Billy Eyers Gas Lit is the new album by the multidimensional duo Divide and Dissolve, incoming on Invada Records on 29 January, and produced by Ruban Neilson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra. The album is preceded today by the second single and power …

Brighton- based Australian singer-songwriter, Juanita Stein, shares the three albums that are her greatest musical influnces. . .

Gleefully bridging the neon and the otherworldly to provide something unique and – yes – fun

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard take a lurch into the past, celebrating their nauseating antics while touring Europe over the last year.

Rowland S Howard’s solo masterpiece gets overdue reissue.