(((O))) Category: Reviews

Margarita Witch Cult – Strung Out In Hell

Riff driven, horror themed, chunks of heavy metal good times.

Steve Hackett – The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall

Whether it moves you or not, you have to give Steve Hackett the utmost respect for him to revisit not just his solo work, but honouring his time with Genesis.

Merzbow – Sedonis

This is another Merzbow album that has the potential to test the limits of the listener but the tracks on Sedonis will make you feel very thrilled that you have done so.

Monochromatic Black – Vehemence

This New York band may only be at the beginning of their music journey but tracks like this demonstrate a mastery of their art already.

Agropelter – The Book of Hours

Quite the journey this is, but The Book of Hours is a realisation that Agropelter are here to stay and they are keeping the genre up and running with more train tracks approaching to see where their next adventure will lead them to.

Hell – Submersus

Hell has delivered a mind-blowing masterpiece of funeral doom.

Wet Leg – moisturizer

moisturizer finds Wet Leg growing into their power and it’s a great summer album, catchy, fun, witty, in love.

We Lost the Sea – A Single Flower

It is fine, but therein lies the problem. “Fine” isn’t an adjective that you want to hear (or write) about a new piece of music.

Elisabeth Elektra – Hypersigil

Hypersigil is a wholly cohesive work – no track feels misplaced, each a differently-angled exploration of one electric space, each euphoric in its instrumentation.

Rival Consoles – Landscape From Memory

Overall, Landscape From Memory is a lush sounding album carefully constructed and highly polished.

Robin Trower – For Earth Below (50th Anniversary Edition)

If you’re very new to Robin’s work, this is a head start to see and hear on what you’ve been missing.

exo-X-xeno – Luminous Voyage

Their debut release is quite a stretch of moving forward and never looking back. But what exo-X-xeno have done, is to bring everything full circle and moving on into the next one to see what they’ll come up with next in the mid roaring ‘20s. Because the game has just begun.

All Men Unto Me – Requiem

Abrasive, beautiful, emotional, manic, heavy and calm. Requiem is one of the finest summations of the boundless possibilities of avant-garde.

Tan Cologne – Unknown Beyond

You could easily call this music spiritual dream pop.

O.R.k – Firehose of Falsehoods

This is not a happy story, this is a tragedy of someone built upon a lie and then crashing it down to reveal how much the citizens are trapped in this cube they’re stuck in, for a very long time.

BC Camplight – A Sober Conversation

Despite the tragic circumstances, once again BC Camplight has created an extravagant and utterly enchanting suite of songs.

Markus Reuter featuring Fabio Trentini & Asaf Sirkis – Truce <3

Truce

underhand – scenes from wherever

Settle back and let underhand work their magic on you. This is seriously good music.

Giac Taylor – The Last Sicilian Standing

This is Giac Taylor showcasing a true sense of what real good movies with a killer score should be, top to bottom. And its points us in the right direction that we badly needed.

Peter Baumann – Nightfall

Whether you get it or you don’t, Baumann has taken up the ante to create this textile sound that proves to be unearthly, unusual, and exquisite.

Peretsky – It Doesn’t Get Cold In October Anymore

It all sounds like musical structures that are at the same time both simple and complex.

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