This collaboration between the Manchester instrumental trio Dead Sea Apes and Stephen Bradbury (aka Black Tempest) plays to both of their strengths in creating an intoxicating instrumental space...
Austin’s aural equivalent of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre return from a four year absence with another mesmerizing collection of pants-shitting freakouts that stalk around the room like Skinny...
The Lone Crows "The Lone Crows" (World In Sound, 2013) Debut album from Minneapolis quartet offers heavy metal thunder via nimble-fingered riffage, a tight rhythm section, and confident,...
Bloody Knives “Death” EP (Saint Marie, 2013) A Ramones-styled six tracks in about 10 minutes, these buzz saw buzz killers (no pun intended) drop in, kick ass, take...
Jikan Ga Nai “Plenty Time EP” (Bearsuit Records, 2013) “Plenty Time” is the debut EP from this ironically-named Scottish/French duo (“Jikan Ga Nai” is Japanese for “There’s not...
Cardinal Fuzz combines this Swedish psych duo’s “The Worker Drone Queen” and award-winning (“Best EP of 2012”) “Head Honcho” EPs into a collectible double gatefold LP on white...
Wind – “Sleep” EP (Jansen, 2012) “Sleep” consists of two lengthy psychedelic tracks from this Norwegian trio who seamlessly blend, psych, metal, and jazz with Eastern flavourings. Their...
Bushman's Revenge - Electric Komle: Live! (Rune Grammofon, 2013) Marrying a motorific, driving rhythm section to angular, Townshendian guitar pyrotechnics, this Norwegian jazz/rock hybrid pulls out all the...
Tame Impala “Lonerism” (Modular, 2012) Following up his Album of The Year-winning debut Innerspeaker, Perth multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker went for a more accessible, poppier sound on Lonerism. The...
Hedvig Mollestad Trio “All of Them Witches” (Rune Grammofon, 2013) Quick – name a female-fronted power trio. Female guitar goddesses are few and far between – the short...