Charlie Gardner
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“We could have been a really good stadium band. It would have not been any good for the personalities in the band – it would have driven us all absolutely insane I would have thought. Any level of success would have made us worse people in my opinion. We could have been really good at it though. It didn’t happen and that’s that – it is what it is. It’s not a good or bad thing, just a thing. I would have liked to have made that second record though. There’s nothing wrong with being unknown, with being anonymous, it’s what almost everyone is – but try telling that to an arrogant idiot in his early twenties. . .”
Michael J Hall, Nebraska
Articles by Charlie Gardner
Funny story: Chicago’s quartet of weirdos Touched By Ghoul recorded their sophomore album Cancel The World at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio in July 2019 with the title already in place. They mixed it in January 2020, and then …
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Longstanding Austin, Texan band ST 37 announce their forthcoming new album Over and Over and Over Again for release on Pariah Child Records. The band states: “All the while working extemporaneously on the material tha …
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Photo: Raina Vlaskovska Norwegian collective Lindy-Fay Hella (Wardruna) Dei Farne announce the new album Hildring (Mirage) arriving on 26 November via By Norse. Hildring is Lindy-Fay’s second album, following the release of Seafarer in 2019 which …
Abort. Abort. Even the word itself sums up what many of us would have liked to be able to do over the last eighteen months. Alarm and abort. Reset, turn off the world. Instead, Karhide took the moment to reset and turn inwards. The result is Abort, an …
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Photo: Mike Redman The Answer Lies In The Black Void is a collaboration between Martina Horváth (singer for the avant-garde metal project Thy Catafalque) and Jason Köhnen (Celestial Season, Bong-Ra, ex-The Kilimanjaro Dark …
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Photo: Sami Salmela Maa Antaa Yön Vaientaa is as captivating as it is alienating. The sophomore album by Finnish experimental post-rock extravaganza HORTE is a dark and mesmerizing journey that is best consumed in one sitting – HORTE demand your undivi …
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