For fans of doom and drone music, the name Dylan Carlson carries a tonne of weight and expectation – and rightly so. Most fans can
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Our lives in Cinema – All Talk EP (Umlaut Records, 2018) This crew are from London, and All Talk is (as far as I can
Read moreThe Stayawakes – Dogs and Cats / Living Together (Surefire Discs / badHORROR Recordings / ShoveItUpYourCult Records, 2018)
The Stayawakes are from Southsea, and Dogs And Cats / Living Together is their debut album. They reportedly play “loud, fuzzy indie-punk with poppy melodies,
Read moreCulture Abuse – Bay Dream (Epitaph, 2018)
Ugh. It’s not a good feeling when you start off really properly digging an album and invest yourself in it, and even potentially recommend said
Read moreManiac – Dead Dance Club (Dirt Cult / Hovercraft, 2018)
LA’s Maniac (i.e. the four piece band, not LA’s premier individual maniac, whoever that may be, although I’m sure many vie for such a lauded
Read moreDie Hoffnung – Elegies and Creation Songs (Belladonna Records, 2017)
Die Hoffnung were from Gainesville, Florida, and this is as far as I can tell something of a posthumous release. The band featured members of
Read more7in & EP Round-up, June 2018 (part 1)
Dark/Light – s/t (Dirt Cult, 2018) Portland, Oregon’s Drak/Light (which is apparently pronounced as Dark Slash Light) describe themselves as ‘cold weather music for combating
Read moreMorrow – Fallow (Alerta Antifascista / Halo of Flies 2018)
For those that don’t know (I counted myself amongst this number until several months ago), Morrow is a DIY emo-crust/ melodic crust punk band from
Read moreFuture Girls – Motivation Problems (Dirt Cult, 2018)
Future Girls are from Halifax, Nova Scotia. They started out in 2015 as a song writing outlet for Matty Grace (of Fat Stupids, Weekend Dads).
Read moreGloom Sleeper – Luminous Galaxies (Dirt Cult, 2018)
Looking at the band name and the record title, you might expect this to be some kind of epic and sludgy stoner rock epic that
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