(((O))) Category: Features

Multi-instrumentalist, compulsive creator, and unrepentant volume addict Timo Ellis from Netherlands talks to us about 3 releases that have influenced him a lot.

The post-rock dreamgaze duo’s Marc Byrd choses the three records that have proved the greatest influence on their new album, Lost in the Void.

The rising London post-rockers pick four albums that have proved more than an influence on their new album, Less.

Experimental folk singer-songwriter Jayne Dent (Me Lost Me) tells us about three records that have greatly influenced her music and her new album, RPG.

This here is a must-have if you want to get into Gold’s music and understand why he was ahead of his time and often under the radar. It is time to give Andrew, the proper recognition he deserves.

The romantic, the beauty, the dark side of gambling, and the escapism that you crave, the concept still works wonderfully well as you put this album on from start to finish. Because it’ll never go away. It stays with you, for the rest of time.

By drawing on European avant garde resources in the construction of their art and music Hawklords were able to articulate both the alienation and mundanity of labour under capitalism and an internationalist revolutionary working class position in opposition to (transnational) capital.

Exdestrier are a new progressive blackened sludge band on the underground heavy music scene of Scotland, and are about to unleash the brutal debut EP, Glorious Barbarism. Guitarist/vocalist Tommy Concrete picked 3 releases that have influenced him a lot.

Jasper den Hartigh chooses the records that have been the greatest influence on his new solo project, Holy Water.

In November 2022, Sydney based Art As Catharsis celebrated its 10 year anniversary. A by-word for innovative and experimental music that’s far from run-of-the-mill, Stuart Benjamin caught up with label owner and friend of E&D, Lachlan Dale for a look back.

He created these hypnotic effects on his instrument by taking listeners, not just on a stoner journey, but a surreal nightmare that is waiting for you.

Whether you agree with Snider or not, it’s his opinion that has honesty, and throughout his own personal choices that’ll make you want to dust off your old records from your personal library you hadn’t played for quite a while and put them on and slide a needle into the groove and use it as an alternate soundtrack to the Strawberry Bricks.

Emerging out of the nordic experimental music scene, Fågelle is a wild collision of lyrical beauty and unhinged, raw expression. Ahead of her new album release next year we asked her about 3 releases that have influenced her a lot.
We talked to power metal band Judicator’s frontman John Yelland about 3 releases that have played a huge part in the making of their new album ‘The Majesty of Decay’.

Irish avant-garde mathrock band God Alone will release their new album ‘ETC’ through Prosthetic Records soon. Check out some of the band’s influences here…

This is their answer Godfrey Reggio’s Qatsi trilogy as they take us through various musical landscapes mixed in with a mapped out adventure that is the ride of a lifetime.

The band’s third album is a gem of a kind of what they were doing in the lion’s den and returning with another holy grail from AMS Records.

….it showcases one of the true composer’s to bring the sounds of classical, jazz, Asian music, avant-garde, and progressive rock in all of its glory.