Soon: Aerofall
Aerofall are a band from the Russian port city of Rostov-on-Don who carve their own compelling niche on the ever-fertile line between noise experimentalism and dream pop. Their guitars are tuneful, overdriven and anarchically feedback-drenched. Their exhilarating racket sounds like a less angsty Ice Age, The Jesus and Mary Chain without the snarl, A Place to […]
Bassless
To the horror of bass players everywhere, some bands just do without one. I’m not thinking at the moment of the increasingly popular guitar-and-drums duo format, whose sound is already stripped-down and somewhat experimental to begin with, and which probably deserves a post of its own. I’m thinking rather of bands that do seem to […]
Candle: Charlottefield
Charlottefield were a band that distinguished itself from the post-rock/post-hardcore/math-rock pack of the early 2000s by having an arresting lyrical sensibility and a phenomenal drummer. The band’s Brighton based personnel included Chris Butler till 2003 and James Dennet from 2003 on bass, Adam Hansford on guitar, Thomas House on guitar and vocals and Ashley Marlowe on […]
Rainy Grey
“I like the indefinite, the boundless. I like continual uncertainty” – Gerhard Richter Continuing my exploration of shoegaze painting, I’d like to write about some thoughts I had on seeing Gerhard Richter’s exhibition “Panorama” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris last year. The connection between Richter’s painting and shoegaze/post-punk music had first been intriguingly suggested […]
Soon: Dead Wolf Club
The sound of London’s Dead Wolf Club, who release their new EP Healer tomorrow, has a vintage feel to it that comes from being so pertinently, excitingly now. It goes back to times when music was more than just another product in an infinitely downloadable world, when bands with a geeky and subcultural multi-gendered polytech […]
First Contact
Welcome to my blog! I often get asked what kind of music I make, or listen to. I find it quite hard to answer this question. Not because my tastes are so eclectic, or outlandish, but because, although sharably specific, this kind of music doesn’t have a name. It’s more a combination of different aspects […]