(((O))) Year: 2024
Gavin Brown caught up with Tom Stevens and Seth Detrick from Weston Super Maim to hear all about their new album See You Tomorrow Baby and how the band create their wonderfully intense music.
A drawn out miasma of misery, an hour of pure catharsis for those that love to wallow in these fetid pools.
Putting on this album is like entering a time machine and returning to the chaotic beer-soaked gigs that have become legendary and continue to influence bands across the globe.
While this mini album clocks at less than twenty minutes, its high-flying, soft-as-cloud sounds are something all those late-night listeners will thoroughly embrace.
Gavin Brown caught up with Lucifer vocalist Johanna Platow Andersson to hear all about their new album Lucifer V as well as discussing their current tour with Angel Witch, their recent tour with Coven, memorable gigs and love of the occult.
Whether these are ‘building blocks’ or not, the music here fully stands on its own merits.
As they release their 12th full-length Fall, David Bowes spoke to Borknagar’s founding guitarist Øystein Garnes Brun about nature and the lasting power of art.
Corryvreckan is tremendous, it is folk without being twee, metal without being generic and has an appeal even beyond those genres.
As Valentine’s day casts its enchanting spell upon the city of love, what better way could one celebrate love’s ineffable essence than by immersing oneself in the ethereal realms of ambient soundscapes.
The songs here are so well constructed, played, and sung that you certainly long for more. Well, maybe we can all search out the previous Butler/Oldham project.
With Drained, Timelost have delivered the goods again with an album that fizzes with an infectiously positive energy and feel good vibes.
Like a stick of dynamite, ready to explode at any second.
Hand of Kalliach play a distinctive blend of melodic death metal melded with Scottish folk music. We asked John and Sophie from the band about three albums that have influenced their sound and their album Corryvreckan.
Elizabeth Klisiewicz caught up with Adam Franklin from the Swervedriver to talk about their influences, origins, side projects and more.
The songs picked give a glimpse into their musical upbringing – or at least a flavour of the country they grew up in. And it is also a very good Beastwars album.
Essentially, Scott Yoder shows with this album that quality glam rock is still alive and well.
I think the appeal of Drab, for me, is that they seem to distill the essence of so many styles and micro-genres from the 1980s, or that fetishize that period subsequently, whilst feeling like something new, without relying simply upon retro thrills.
It may only be February, but you’ll struggle to find an album as heavy, as intense, as harrowing, as beautiful, as cathartic and as utterly sublime as this one.
All in all, it’s great to see this album getting some attention thanks to Wilson’s sublime remix. It’s very much a rebirth by giving The Missing Piece acknowledgment that it properly deserves for 2024.
