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
‘Brooklyn’ is a frustrated plea from singer-songwriter Katie Malco to her friend to return home – a love song to a cherished friendship where an absence is sorely felt. The release comes as part of a series of stripped-down songs from Malco’s debut alb …
Blunt Chunks, the project of Toronto-based Caitlin Woelfle-O’Brien (Jaunt) will release her self-titled debut EP on May 6 via Telephone Explosion Records. The new EP, which can be downloaded here, also features members of The Weather Station, Broken So …
Human Worth are super proud to premiere the video single ‘Constant’ from Bristol trio Olanza’s intoxicating new album, with a portion of proceeds donated to charity. As an instrumental three-piece Olanza have long explored the interplay between loud wi …
A chaotic postmodern Frankenstein’s monster, LibraLibra sits simmering in the fractured space between art-pop and punk. A Pandora’s box that first opened itself to the world in 2018, LibraLibra has continued to erode the stability of convention with ea …
John Doran writes: Moundabout is a new folk project based in Ireland by Paddy Shine of Gnod and Phil Masterson of Los Langeros/Damp Howl/Bisect, but the words ‘new’ and ‘folk’ need to be treated with care here. Listening to Flowers Rot, Bring Me Stones …
Photo: Dom Wallace North-East London’s anthemic, wonky alt-rockers The Moral High Ground release their new single and music video ‘Take The Cash’ via Glasshouse Records. Written and recorded during the start of lockdown, ‘Take The Cash’ is an introspec …
Wrack is a one-man metal band formed in 2009 by Bay Area producer and multi-instrumentalist Tyler Cox. The music of Wrack at times recalls the aggro post-metal of early Isis, the patient math-riffing of Nothing-era Meshuggah, or the grandiose soundscap …
The formation of Gnod’s new album Hexen Valley began in summer 2021 when Paddy Shine moved to Hebden Bridge to join fellow protagonists Chris Haslam and Jesse Webb in a co-op house at the 200-year-old NutcloughTavern. As has been the case since the for …
New Zealand trio Die! Die! Die! are back to their original breakout line-up for the acclaimed forthcoming seventh album, This Is Not An Island Anymore, release on February 18. Since their debut in 2005, Die! Die! Die! has blended a powerful a …
Italian post-metal veterans The Blank Canvas are set to release their second album studio album Dark Mirage on February 18 2022 via Drown Within Records, Vollmer Industries and Zero Produzioni. An unprecedented scenario made of broken grooves, heavy an …
Riding a wave of momentum following the critical and commercial success of 2019’s Stay Awake album launch, and a huge tour with The Dead South, Noble Jacks were heading into 2020 and beyond with stars in their eyes. We all know what happened next. “Cov …
Photo: Kim Ambriz DTS 25 is an expanded reissue of Big’n’s Steve Albini-recorded album, first released in 1996 and freshly remastered by Carl Saff with the addition of many previously unheard demos.. Digitally restored from an unearthed cassette tape l …
Crawling into virtual space during the Covid-19 pandemic, Omnibael had ideas. Diverse, divergent, wide-ranging ideas, but ideas which centred around the creation of noise. The noise came before the identity, before any kind of cohesion …
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 …
One of the most talked-about bands on the Brighton scene, CLT DRP have an exciting 2022 of headline touring ahead of them. We caught up with the experimental electropunks and asked them to choose three records that have been major influences on their music. . .
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 …
Emerging from an eight-year hiatus, songwriter Gianluca Divirgilio brings his darkest and most introspective thoughts to light with Arctic Plateau’s Songs of Shame. A series of impressions drawn from Divirgilio’s own experiences in the time since the b …
Ones And Threes is the new double album by Kowa Axis (London-based guitarist James Barry). A collection of pieces split across two distinct halves, it was informed heavily by Barry quitting a full time creative director job to go it alone as a freelanc …
A Pandora’s box that first opened itself to the world in 2018, LibraLibra has continued to erode the stability of convention with each ambitious release. Founded by vocalist Beth Cannon (fresh off of a tour with Simon Raymond of the Cocteau Twins) …
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 …
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 …
