Cenesthesie: ‘Visceral’ [Review]
Fiction
His back stiff against the steel monolith, Frank struggled in vain to escape the wrist and ankle clamps that kept him in place. His head throbbed. The featureless white walls of his cubic cell met his gaze and stared back blankly. He had awoken here, helpless and physically unharmed bar the chafing of the unforgiving clamps against his bulky forearms and calves. His last memory was of the comforting glow of his computer screen as he slid on his prized studio headphones and pressed play. Now he racked his mind in a plainly hopeless attempt to come to terms with his predicament. Read more…
For those of you whose musical tastes lean firmly to the left of centre, Brussels has birthed a brilliantly cinematic psych group by the name of Industroika, who have in turn given the world their new five track album, North. Track by track breakdown below: 
Moving on from yesterday’s odd pairing of Guildfordian pop divadom and West Virginian freak show excess, we now come face to face with a set of up and coming talents from the UK’s burgeoning metal scene. 
As a guy in his twenties, it’s pretty safe to say that I’m not in pop / r’n’b vocalist Chess’s target market. But nonetheless, I’m still a sucker for a good slice of skilled songcraft – and Babygirl is definitely an impressive demonstration of this Maltese singer’s songwriting skills. 
I originally started this review by writing some stuff about MC Rut’s history – but then I realised you can read all that stuff on Wikipedia anyway. So instead, I played Pick Up Your Head, and this happened: