In making this album, The Men have opened up further avenues of travel on their musical journey and it will be interesting to see where they head next. In the meantime enjoy this, it’s a perfect antidote to the closing in of winter. By Martyn Coppack

65daysofstatic are the best band you will ever see live. Know this. – By Darren Saunders

To these ears, there’s a mismatch between the two singers in this band. It truly spoils and puts me off what should be a fine debut. Apologies… By Geoff Topley

Bruce Soord must be one of the busiest men in the business right now. Off the back of a successful album and tour with his ‘main’ band The Pineapple Thief he has launched straight in to his next project, teaming up with Jonas Renske of Katatonia to create Wisdom of Crowds. We got John Sturm to find out more.

The debut EP from Liverpool’s Wired To Follow leaves Jake Murray begging for more.

So, now you’ve seen the results of our Albums of the Year post we want to share with you the selection of records that our writer’s personally thought were the best of the year. It’s an eclectic bunch, I’m sure you’ll agree. In no particular order… W …

The Echoes And Dust Writers Poll Album of 2012 – Harbour Of Devils by What The Blood Revealed. To be fair, the vote was so close this year that a vote either way could have meant top spot for any of the MONO, Godspeed or Trail of Dead albums but the ve …

Giza plays instrumental music. And I happen to be a fan of instrumental music. But, I don’t tend to write about instrumental music much as there are a lot of writers at (((O))) that simply are a lot more qualified than I am. For Giza I am happy to make …

Switzerland is showing itself more and more to be a cradle of incredibly good underground music and is proving its quality with constant great releases from bands there. What the Evpatoria Report, Abraham, Prisma and Khoma already began Lilium Sova con …

Based in London, The Cellophane Flowers quite frankly are a curiously enchanting quintet. A few years ago (Spring 2010) I was standing in a North London Pub (The Gaff – Holloway Road), before the very well received release of their EP’ If I Was A Girl’ …

When the editor-in-chief at (((O))) asked me a few weeks ago if I had heard of this band called Spider Kitten before, because he thought I would be interested in their new release, my first reaction was: “Spider Kitten, that’s an odd name for a band, s …

I’m listening to ‘Radians’ EP by Verse Metrics as I type this. It opens with a track called ‘Burn Twice As Bright’, which starts off with an irregular drum pattern and a couple of repeated guitar notes. From there more instruments are added, and it bui …

You know, every so often there comes a record that you listen to a minute-or-so of, stop playback and say: “This is crazy.” Some records just carry that effect, that weight. For whatever reason there’s an element in the music, or the atmosphere, the am …

Ok, I have to admit that I expected something different when I read ‘noisy-post-hardcore’, which is how the members of Hunt/Gather from Glasgow and Falkirk, Scotland describe their music. There is a reason for my confusion however, as the term post-har …

These times are times of religious insecurity. At least, when you follow a religion to start off with. Over the last couple of years the Catholic Church has been in the news quite badly when it became clear that many of their priests have been touching …

Leftfield music has seen a bit of a turn around in fortunes over the recent years with the current strain of what some people call “math rock” even denting the charts. Battles and Foals spring to mind and now we can add another name to that list…Gallop …

Welcome to this laidback genre safari by Barnaby Bennett from Calgary, Canada. While the familiar Christmas songs has been in the air most places lately, I have thankfully dived into the genre blending record ‘Shadows and Reflections – An Anthology’ to …

Back in May 2011 Oliver Catt had an idea about recording songs from his bedroom and releasing them. As the project grew, so too did the number of collaborators working with the Manchester-based Catt, and by April 2012, Fantasy Rainbow had a string of s …

Occasionally I go through periods during which I listen to nothing else than post-hardcore/punk bands such as Drive Like Jehu, Slint, Jawbox, Pitchfork, Hot Snakes and The Jesus Lizard to name just a few. And I always feel it’s a shame these bands are …

The music industry is certainly taking new directions. Take this review for instance: You wouldn’t be reading it if it weren’t for twitter. To make a long story short, here’s some twitter dialogue from a while back: @astroboter (…) Finished the upcom …

Guitars. They swoop, they slide, they rumble and they roar all the way through the fabric of ‘The Birds Fly Low’, the third album from Creature With the Atom Brain, and finally gets its UK release after being available in some territories since April. …