Eryn Non Dae: ‘Meliora’ [Review]
Raw. Relentless. Brutally bludgeoning. Sound like your kind of thing? Then read on… Read more…
Tobel Lopes: ‘Cabresto’ [Review]
We all know the feelings unique to Monday mornings. The bleary-eyed knackeredness, the aching muscles, the brain filled with thoughts and memories of the weekend that, perhaps, make us wish we hadn’t been born with neurons. What you need is to wake up – to be unceremoniously jolted out of your inertia-filled state of conscious unconsciousness. We all have our own rituals with which to achieve this: a morning workout, jog, cigarette, coffee, espresso, Red Bull, perhaps all of the above. But these options require actual physical effort. At the very least, you need to get out of bed. Hassle. Read more…
II II II – ‘A Conundrum On My Coffee Table’ [Review]
Wow. Seriously, just wow. As incredible as progressive music is, it remains a rare treat to discover music of that ilk which manages to condense an epic’s worth of consciousness-twisting ideas into a space of time more usually reserved for punk songs about being angry, being angry about being angry, and/or indulging in immature toilet humour, and then makes it work in a way that keeps you coming back for more, never becoming bored even ten listens later. A series of tiny balls of complexity that will take months to really unravel, ‘A Conundrum On My Coffee Table’ is a spectacular mini-album that should keep your headphones glued to your ears. Just remember to tear them away when operating heavy machinery. Read more…