Articles by Jared Dix
Tunes packed with ideas and constant dynamism. It’s exhausting, it’s exhilarating. Scream if you wanna go faster.
The celebrated artistic director sat down with Jared Dix to discuss the past and present of Birmingham’s underground gem, and what an uncertain future might hold.
The worst thing about this record is going to be the fact there’s nothing on the other side. Get it.
Ora Cogan’s music hovers and shimmers between forms, drunk with sound. Wine red and coffee black, a full melodic cloud that’s not quite a drone but a warm thrum, thick and iridescent. Her voice sits inside the music not out front or on top. Pure and angelic but smudged. . .
It’s worship music for the vast possibility of the universe, the life force embodied in the sun, music as a ritual transcendental space. Let it burn.
An undeniable peak, a current of lustrous, dynamic, sound rushing towards you and lifting you along with it.
Eggsistentialism allows for less ranting and more reflection, more frailty and sadness than we’ve had from The Lovely Eggs before. I think there’s a strong case for this being their best yet.
Coagulated Bliss is perhaps the most fully Full of Hell album yet, sharper edged and full of surprises.
Spacious and melodic, possessed of subtle earworms, it is the smoothest sounding record they’ve ever made and, weirdly, this is no criticism.
I have avoided listening to it while wandering through a shopping centre for fear of the unconscious horrors doing so may call forth.
As always, they deliver a confident and melodic blend of psych and Sabbath-worship as exploratory instrumental doom.
Savak are punk in the largely feelgood and melodic way The Modern Lovers or The Feelies were.
The record’s prevailing mood is of being blanketed and half awake.
Three bands, five quid. Splendid idea really.
As a whole ‘Til You Fall Down is a little uneven but feels appropriately like a collection of early 7″ singles on an 80’s indie label.
For all the cautionary meditations on the coming doom there is also something celebratory in Ocher’s music. Of small achievements and the connections between people, the possibilities in spaces and evenings like these.
Jared Dix caught up with Dunstan Bruce from. “one hit wonders” Chumbawamba about his film ‘I Get knocked Down’, dealing with the experiences from their hit single ‘Tubthumping’.
New year, same old shit, burn it down. Bloody Head’s bad vibe dirge punk makes the perfect soundtrack.
