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Words by Alexandra Rose Elemental Child: The Words & Music Of Marc Bolan is a unique compilation album which celebrates the musical legacy of one of the most important figures in rock history. Motivated by a desire to provide listeners with a fresh perspective on the delights of some familiar and not so familiar material, … Continue reading Album review: Elemental Child, The Words & Music Of Marc Bolan
Words by Alexandra Rose With a sonic panorama incorporating rays of psychedelia, folk rock and melodic jazz, the hotly anticipated debut album by Oracle Sisters, Hydranism, is full of songs imbued with poignant prose and melodic tranquillity. Reflecting a world temporarily suspended in time during the global health pandemic, Hydranism was composed and recorded during … Continue reading Album review: Oracle Sisters – Hydranism
Words by Grey Malkin Elkhorn (Jesse Sheppard and Drew Gardener) have previously blown minds and gathered devotion with a series of staggeringly inventive and deeply immersive releases, from the adventurous psych folk of 2019’s ‘Sun Cycle/Elk Jam’, to the wind-torn improvisations of ‘Storm Sessions’ (literally recorded whilst holed up during a winter ice blast), to last … Continue reading Album review: Elkhorn – On The Whole Universe In All Directions
Words by Gareth Thompson There’s a former school house just outside Rakkestad in rural southern Norway. With its front porch, climbing plants and ochre boarding it looks most welcoming. The songwriter Juni Habel now lives here and it’s where she recorded her second album, Carvings, in a bedroom, an old classroom and in the hallway. … Continue reading Album review: Juni Habel – Carvings
Words by Grey Malkin Library Music: Volume One is a welcome compilation from North London’s The Leaf Library, gathering together fourteen years’ worth of singles, compilation tracks and one offs, essentially giving these tracks a permanent, proper home and allowing listeners to delve into a stylistically more varied and deeply fascinating ‘other’ side of the band. Songs that … Continue reading Album review – The Leaf Library – Library Music: Volume One
Words by Grey Malkin Cardiff’s Marc (Zeuk) Roberts continues his exploration of the wyrd and wonderful corners of both psych folk and baroque pop with Ghost of Clone, an ambitious and highly satisfying book and album pairing that exemplifies Robert’s uniquely creative and distinctive approach. Following on from recent Zeuk missives Crow Spanner and Minutes (where … Continue reading Album review: Marc Roberts – Ghost Of Clone
Source: album artwork Words by Lady Godiva In a land across the sea lives a troubadour called Woody. His first name is bucolic and his surname is the color of his native Ireland's clover, hard to find a more pastoral moniker. He takes you on a magic carpet over forests, lakes and hamlets to his … Continue reading Album Review: Woody Green – S/T
Words by Grey Malkin Hill, Brighton based Pete Piskov's avant-psych project, have been issuing some of the most inventive and creatively free music upon the underground since their eponymously titled debut in 2016. Several missives have followed; not least 2020's 'Into Outta This World' and its sister release 'Into This Outer World', which saw Hill … Continue reading Album review: Hill – Metaflections
Words by Lady Godiva Joe James Boyle has beget a fictional double based in the wild west, his name is AbrahamSmoothe. He is the ultimate outlaw who checks all the boxes: loner, gunslinger, fugitive, whiskey addicted chain drinker, his heart bleeds with resentment and revenge. The record opens with "The Ballad of Abraham Smoothe", with … Continue reading Album review: Joe James Boyle – Abraham Smoothe
Source: album artwork Words by Lady Godiva Is the world bringing you down? Take a time machine pill to yesteryear's colorful and vibrant universe with Daniel Griffin's analog concept record, You're Gonna Lose Your Mind. Get ready for a trip down the rabbit hole, on par with Alice in Wonderland. First, you are told you're … Continue reading Album review: Daniel M. Griffin – You’re Gonna Lose Your Mind