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Under The Influence with Haggard Cat
Haggard Cat are a critically acclaimed British post hardcore/alt-rock duo composed of drummer/backing vocalist Tom Marsh and vocalist/guitarist Matt Reynolds. We thought it about time we got a “feline” for what makes Haggard Cat purr, so we asked Matt and Tom to share four records that have been huge influences on their song writing.
Massive Attack meets panic attack with a flavour of a Purple-pink Floyd. The Murrays mint another beauty…
Portland Oregon-based heavy post-progressive band Light Creates Shadow release new single, ‘Beauty For Ashes’, their first new music since the release of the 2022 full length, Ghosts Pass Through, Running From The Body.
California death-rock trio New Skeletal Faces talks to Echoes and Dust about 3 releases that have influenced the band’s sound a lot.
On the eve of a London headline, we asked the France-based prog-metallers to share three records that have hugely influenced their music and their new album, Mesh.
It remains one of those albums that you keep going back to see what kind of mysteries and hidden clues that Lupo has left behind for listeners to discover.
Juanita Stein has released her fourth solo album The Weightless Hour via Agricultural Audio. The Howling Bells front-woman has just finished a UK tour supporting Evan Dando and is doing a series of in-store shows including one at London’s Rough Trade West this evening, before joining Travis on their UK dates in December.
Singer-songwriter and interdisciplinary artist from Montreal, Olivia Khoury unveils her newest single ‘Fall Forward’ and offers a glimpse of her evolving artistic journey. . .
I wrote “Siphonophores” on guitar, during the first lockdown, a period where I was kind of trapped between an almost empty flat in Edinburgh and Dresden. . . I´m not a confident guitarist since I am completely self-taught, but, probably because of this, I feel that this instrument allows me to focus on aspects of the song-writing that I normally overlook when writing on piano. . .
Manchester/Cardiff-based doom luminaries The Death Of Money just celebrated their 20th anniversary with their new album ‘Error After Era’. Check out the band’s main influences here…
Thrash-influenced stoner metallers WARPSTORMER are about to release their new self-titled EP on the London Doom Collective. Check out their new single and read about some of the band’s influences here.
We asked Marin Lalić about 3 albums that have influenced him hugely in his musical career, laying the foundations for his festival dream, namely Bear Stone Festival in Slunj, Croatia.
The noirish Gothenburg duo’s journey through life’s twists and turns now continues with the release of their fourth single, ‘Down’.
Expansive post-rockers Overhead, The Albatross are about to release their new album I Leave You This, so we got David from the band to pick three albums that have influenced their music.
A start for anyone who wants to go beyond the work to prove how much Bruce can take it a step further from his psychedelic and hard rock boundaries into something brilliant and poetic that you need to take notice of.
A properly noir thing, as notable for its long stretches of quiet atmosphere as it is for its pummelling skronk with, appropriately enough, a couple of very impressive drone shots!
