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REVIEW: SlapClapS – Screams From The Darkness
No ‘1950s tough-guy’ cosplay here, Russian Psychobilly duo SlapClapS’s 2019 release Screams From The Darkness is a return to the gothic Punk origins of the Psychobilly genre. Opening track Pimple of Lust (gross!) roars out of the starting gate like a bat out of hell. Snares shuffle with such speed and punch that it feels… Continue Reading →
REVIEW: Catcher – Yesterday’s Favorite / The Skin (Uninformed Versions) (2021)
Catcher’s brooding melodies and pummeling rhythms constitute a sound reminiscent of early 2000s Post-Punk revivalism. It’s the revival of a revival sound, held back only by an unwillingness to move forward. Any artistic experimentation or intrigue associated with the original wave of Post-Punk have been overridden by the contemporary fixation on the semblance of prior… Continue Reading →
REVIEW: Pencil Lead Syringe – The Agua Mansa Massacre EP (2006)
SoCal trio Pencil Lead Syringe’s 2006 EP The Agua Mansa Massacre is a near 12 minute exploration of the intersection of Brutal Death Metal and scatter shot Grindcore. Lead vocalist Ramon Mercado’s pig squelched vocals don’t let a single word escape the noise, but it works. Agua Mansa is a completely percussive and textural album,… Continue Reading →
REVIEW: Unseeing – Funeral for A Friend (2021)
Funeral for A Friend is the 2021 EP release by Belarusian Dark Ambient and Doom Jazz project Unseeing. Funeral for A Friend is an incredibly dreary and visceral album, “[a] story to tell in the dark” as described on the album’s Bandcamp page. Not for the squeamish, Funeral for A Friend’s opening track My Suicide… Continue Reading →
REVIEW: Millicent Waffles – Nokturnus: Excession (2015)
Hailing from Ohio, Millicent Waffle’s Nokturnus: Excession is an exhaustive drag through an unfulfilled concept. Excession, the second installment in the Nokturnus trilogy, is described by the artists as “[exploring] the eclectic and often nightmarish life of the peasants who walked among the mice as giants” and as an album “loosely based off of the… Continue Reading →
REVIEW: Krypto Grotesk – Post Urban Exotica (2019)
Krypto Grotesk is the industrial dub project of duo Konrad Agnas (“drums and transients”) and Anton Sundell (“processing and sounds”). Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Krypto… Continue Reading →
REVIEW: Jacek Sienkiewics – Mirrors (2007)
Mirrors is a 2007 EP release by Polish electronic artist and Recognition Records label founder Jacek Sienkiewics. Working as a suite of mood pieces most… Continue Reading →
REVIEW: Ouxh – Machines In Care (2019)
Stealthy office park chic for your listening pleasure. Machines In Care is the 2019 release by the enigmatic Ouxh. Released on Melbourne based LKR Records,… Continue Reading →
REVIEW: Dream Affair – From Now On EP (2012)
Fast, lush, and flushed with attitude abuse. If there was a plug-in and play certified sound for today’s wave of Goth fan music, it would… Continue Reading →
REVIEW: Meth Math – Perreando Y Llorando (2020)
Meth Math’s Perreando Y Llorando single is the spiritual successor to the Space Age Pop exoticism of the late 1950s. Layers of extraterrestrial vocals and… Continue Reading →
REVIEW: Ghösh – Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em / Beelzebub (2020)
Is this America’s answer to the UK’s notorious Grime school? If so, I’m along for the ride. Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em is weird, truly. Ghösh… Continue Reading →
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