Marc Bolan – Demos From The Underworld (2013) review
Seeing as lo-fi is so fashionable nowadays, the climate is right for the posthumous release of a new compilation of Marc Bolan demos adequately named Demos From the...
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Lotte Kestner – The Bluebird of Happiness (2013) review
Lotte Kestner “The Bluebird of Happiness” (Saint Marie 2013) Lotte Kestner is the nom de rock of Trespassers William vocalist Anna-Lynne Williams. Her sophomore solo album is a...
Panda Riot – Northern Automatic Music (2013) review
Panda Riot “Northern Automatic Music” (Saint Marie 2013) These Philly-born, Chicago-based shoegazers started out writing soundtracks to homemade films and there are cinematic elements (particularly on instrumentals “Golden...
Lento – Anxiety Despair Languish (2012) review
Lento - "Anxiety Despair Languish" (Denovali 2012) Italian Sludge-Doom-Progressive collective Lento, active since 2004, have released not too long ago their third full-length album, going by the title...
Iron Butterfly – Heavy (1968) review
Iron Butterfly - "Heavy" (Music on Vinyl 2012) Debut album by legendary San Diego band Iron Butterfly was released in 1968, two years after the band was formed....
The History of Colour TV – Emerald Cures Chic Ills (2013) review
The History of Colour TV “Emerald Cures Chic Ills” (Saint Marie 2013) The graphic cover art and punny title of these Berlin-based shoegazers’ debut album gives a good...
Ohio Express – Ohio Express (1968) review
Ohio Express “Ohio Express” (Buddah Records 1968) The history of this Mansfield, Ohio band is riddled with knots. So rather than take you down a long and winding...
The Black Angels – ‘Indigo Meadow’ (2013)
Indigo Meadow, filled with spacey hypnotic splendor, channels the mystic ethereal delights of The Doors and early Pink Floyd, overflowing the grooves with a heartbeat pounding bass that...
Gene Clark – Here Tonight: The White Light Demos (2013) review
Here Tonight: The White Light Demos or White Light Demons as I continually misread the title, but that may just be a series of Freudian slips on my...
Vibravoid – ‘Delirio Dei Sensi’ (2013)
New upcoming album by German psychedelic rockers Vibravoid is their ninth career album and studio release in three years. Released in good old traditions on vinyl, “Delirio dei...