Since the turn of the century, few have matched the ghostly essence of a Liz Harris composition. Predominately through the lens of Grouper, Harris has felt her way through the miasma, exposing ...

One thing that can be defined as part of the Dan Guidance signature sound, if there is such a thing, is that the drums are usually crisp and sharp and seldom distorted or abrasive. As a result, no ...

Cooked is Ambarchi ’s third instalment in six weeks, and once again, he takes his audience to new corners. His first solo releases since one of his best in 2023’s Shebang, Cooked is every bit as good.

Oblique sees Fielder cover yet more new ground in what is his most compelling work yet. The sonic contrasts, Oblique ’s greatest boon in what is subtly immersive and bone-shattering. It’s something ...

The Portland-based artist marks her return with one of the year’s best releases.

On their latest release, the Cincinnati band deliver a tour-de-force.

The Welsh countryside is dry and yellow, with few flashes of its signature green visible as we weave our way down the winding A-roads. Rivers are weak and waning, water flowing less freely from the ...

“W hen I died / I was alive,” sings Ty Segall on Chrome ’s eponymous closing track. Sonically, Segall hasn’t sounded so vibrant in years, while lyrically, it’s the kind of message permeating with the ...

As the chief architects of post-punk, Wire have always existed to break boundaries. There are many examples of this. The clearest, perhaps the masculine side of punk where Colin Newman and Co. reacted ...

With summer in the rearview mirror, things are beginning to ramp up again. Yes, we’ve lamented about the absurdity of the yearly release schedule many times (and probably enough). But with the ...

The Room are one of the few bands whose second life has surpassed the creative highs of their first. The state of the world and the shadow of Donald Trump loom large in front man Dave Jackson’s lyrics ...

Mick Chrysalid and Jonny Davis Le Brun talk about the band’s debut full-length release, ‘The Shell of a Lullaby’. “There were far too many years, not wasted because we’d always play live, and I did ...