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Martha – Castle & Falcon, Birmingham

Martha are a splendid conundrum: both special and ordinary, and somehow special because they are ordinary; but mostly they’re a life affirming shot of pop.

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Land Of Sleeper

Pigs are musically heavy and lyrically dark but the overall effect is exhilarating, even joyous. It’s vivacious doom.

Sightless Pit – Lockstep Bloodwar

Emotionally it might not escape the same dank dungeon where The Body and Full of Hell are found but it sees Buford and Walker at play in the ashes and ruin.

Oozing Wound – We Cater To Cowards

It’s great. Part thrash, part grunge, all Ooze.

Bruxa Maria – Build Yourself A Shrine And Pray

They may tour in a battered transit van but they sound like a fleet of bombers approaching.

Laibach – Love Is Still Alive

The mystery of Laibach endures. Avant-garde provocateurs or kitsch joke? Why not both? Laibach contain multitudes.

Nyx Nótt – Themes From

Sleepless and distractedly channel surfing, Themes From is a brighter, more colourful, record than its predecessor, a little more alert and diverse.

Objections – Muthers Studio, Birmingham

Still something of an unknown quantity Objections prove themselves worthy headliners.

Shit & Shine – New Confusion

Offers up a subtler twist on the usual chaotic bad vibes, less hedonism and more blank horror.

Kill Your Boyfriend – Voodoo

For best results you should be drunk, in a dark space, submerged in fierce volume.

Mr Phylzzz – Cancel Culture Club

Do you want a sweaty, garage noise, rock ‘n’ roll fit or do you want the tiresome everyday?

Hekla – Xiuxiuejar

Swirls like mist across an empty landscape of black rock and cold water.

Oneida – Success

Unlikely perhaps but for some of us this is the feelgood sound of the summer.  

Bong-Ra – Meditations

Bong-Ra is getting cosmic, calling on the ancients and pulling strands from his whole career into bass heavy doom rituals.

Chat Pile – God’s Country

A deranged and diseased stagger through ugly American dysfunction. They might just be your new favourite band.

Supersonic Festival 2022

When artists offer humble acknowledgement of how well they’re being treated by the crew and how nice it is to play for such a welcoming audience it just underlines what a special festival this is.

The Bobby Lees – Hollywood Junkyard EP

If you want to catch The Bobby Lees tearing it up in a small venue, you need to pay attention now. Don’t say I didn’t tell you. 

Petbrick – Ayan

Plays out their love for techno in some style.

Krause – The Art of Fatigue

On The Art of Fatigue, Krause get harder, faster, filthier, gnarlier.

Beneather – Beneather

Like ghosts of songs you once knew, bleeding through from the past.

All Structures Align – Details and Drawings

The music’s quiet self confidence feels like they’ve been steadily working on their skills in the background that whole time. It’s beautifully made, a calming joy to behold.

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