(((O))) FEATURES
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.
It does feel like a live album when you listen to Bedside, but the way that Greenslade, Lawson, Tony Reeves, and Andy McCulloch have done is to create a mystical, majestic, and symphonic adventure that’s stuck inside your brain for a very long time.
The lyrics to ‘Accretion Disk Necropolis’ are based around this weird dream I had where there was this sprawling “graveyard” of used up/ uninhabitable planets, derelict vessels, and all this broken space-tech slowly being swallowed up by a monstrous living black hole.
David Weaver is one of the artistic directors of Core. Festival and he talks to us about 3 releases that have influenced him greatly during his musical upbringing.
MANBIRD!? I have no idea what it means. Ask Steve Hands, he came up with it. No, don’t ask him. He won’t know either. . .
Daniel Mutch from 432 Presents and Core. Festival talks to us about 3 releases that have influenced him greatly during his life, becoming the music promoter he is today.
After having seen Slowtorch perform an impressive headline set on the first day of the recent Bear Stone Festival, we asked the band about some of their influences.
Immersive music meant to be listened to at a loud volume or in the space between headphones.
Cybergrind-meets-hyperpop band Thotcrime are set to return this summer with their third full-length, Connection Anxiety, due out on August 16 via Prosthetic Records. Read about the band’s influences here.
Nothing Will Grow In The Soil arrives: exploring the role these ancient, strange trees occupy in our culture, spirituality and imaginations. Alongside this, Kitty Whitelaw’s forays into the deeper end of her register and the dark churns of McGivern’s double bass – complemented by a raft of digital effects – build a crushing, nightmarish landscape.
Counterlife is the debut album from London’s post-hardcore proponents, The Higher Line.
Completely reinventing their line-up with brass and percussion into a new hot and raw sci-fi sound, OSEES share ‘Earthling’, the psychedelic second single from their upcoming LP, SORCS 80, due later this year via Castle Face Records. Frontm …
‘Sovereign’ is the uplifting third single-premiere from acclaimed The Start Of The End.
Sweden’s stalwart, slow burning post-rock outfit Oh Hiroshima return with their 5th album ‘All Things Shining’. Read the track by track guide here.
NYC synth-punks Bangladeafy released their new album ‘Vultures’ today. We asked Jon Ehlers from the band about 3 albums that have influenced their music a lot.
