Field of Appearances is the full‐length debut from Los Angeles‐based band OBJECT OF AFFECTION, which contains members of renowned acts Fury, Death Bells, and LOCK. Meticulously crafted with Grammynominated producer Alex Newport and emerging engineer Phillip Odom, Field of Appearances is an exceedingly memorable, precisely cohesive, and importantly, a refreshing addition to the alternative music landscape.With the inclusion of drum machines, synthesizers, acoustic guitars, and auxiliary percussion, Field ofAppearances highlights the band's sophisticated evolution and experimentation from previous single Through ...
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Field of Appearances is the full‐length debut from Los Angeles‐based band OBJECT OF AFFECTION, which contains members of renowned acts Fury, Death Bells, and LOCK. Meticulously crafted with Grammynominated producer Alex Newport and emerging engineer Phillip Odom, Field of Appearances is an exceedingly memorable, precisely cohesive, and importantly, a refreshing addition to the alternative music landscape.With the inclusion of drum machines, synthesizers, acoustic guitars, and auxiliary percussion, Field ofAppearances highlights the band’s sophisticated evolution and experimentation from previous single Through ...
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Formed in Tokyo, Japan in the summer of 2017, KRUELTY has emerged as the most notable artist to find that sweet spot where the amalgamation of heavy beatdown hardcore and ‘90s American/Scandinavian death/doom metal becomes the blueprint of brutality and slam KRUELTY unleash. With KRUELTY you will hear the ultimate convergence of some of the most punishing death metal riffs and the most mind-blowing breakdowns influenced by Japanese and ‘90s East Coast hardcore bands.2020 saw the release of KRUELTY’s debut ...
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Formed in Tokyo, Japan in the summer of 2017, KRUELTY has emerged as the most notable artist to find that sweet spot where the amalgamation of heavy beatdown hardcore and ‘90s American/Scandinavian death/doom metal becomes the blueprint of brutality and slam KRUELTY unleash. With KRUELTY you will hear the ultimate convergence of some of the most punishing death metal riffs and the most mind-blowing breakdowns influenced by Japanese and ‘90s East Coast hardcore bands.2020 saw the release of KRUELTY’s debut ...
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Almost three years spent sharpening orthodox weapons, SP reveal their second full length “Of the Sign…’, six schizo spiraling, deranged hymns of Black Heavy Metal from a lost time.While the S/T full length was a raw blistering torrent draped in first wave blood, ‘Of the Sign…’ seems to be thoroughly drenched in its epic, strange and primitive ways. A violent cacophony of insanity laden cavern vocals, labyrinthian guitar trilling, scalding drum brutality, and analog harsh-noise eruptions; these are sinister yet ...
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Almost three years spent sharpening orthodox weapons, SP reveal their second full length “Of theSign…’, six schizo spiraling, deranged hymns of Black Heavy Metal from a lost time.While the S/T full length was a raw blistering torrent draped in first wave blood, ‘Of the Sign…’seems to be thoroughly drenched in its epic, strange and primitive ways. A violent cacophony ofinsanity laden cavern vocals, labyrinthian guitar trilling, scalding drum brutality, and analog harshnoiseeruptions; these are sinister yet adventurous black/heavy/death abominations from ...
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As Vice says: Gnod Is Sometimes Sludgy, Always Loud, and Never Bored “Over the past few years, Gnod have steadily emerged as one of the most captivating underground acts in the UK. Vehemently averse to stagnation, their sonic experiments veer from Hawkwind‐like space rock to homebrewed industrial techno, incorporating virtually everything in between. In 2015, they released the critically‐acclaimed triple‐LP Infinity Machines, a psych‐jazz bad trip of Herculean proportions.”This cd captures all 3 sets GNOD played at Roadburn, starting in ...
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We tried to push ourselves to musical horizons that we have touched or hinted at before, but now tryto fully embrace and indeed give ourselves over to a deeper instinctual urge."It takes a vision of some distinction to stand out amid an unerringly over-populated black metal scene.Gelderland (NL) iconoclasts Solar Temple made it look easy with their 2018 debut album, FertileDescent: a kaleidoscopic, deep-dive grimoire with atmosphere, melody and a chewable sense ofspectral dread, it defied extreme metal’s in-built conservatism ...
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Although the label tends to be best-known for its pop covers of ‘50s R&B hits, Randy Wood’s Dot Records with its subsidiary Hamilton Records also issued more than its share of legitimate rockabilly and rock and roll.Bear Family Records®’ latest entry in its ‘That’ll Flat Git It!’ series salutes that side of the company’svoluminous release slate, bringing together no less than 37 selections by a vast array of artists both wellknown (Leroy Van Dyke, Jim Lowe, Sanford Clark, Jimmy Newman, ...
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Last year’s ‘On The Dancefloor With a Twist’ compilation (BCD17666) was so much fun that it’s time for round two!It’s another jam-packed tribute to the dance sensation that swept the globe during the early ‘60s, containing 23 more workouts that’ll have you lacing your Twist shoes up tight. Naturally, the originators of The Twist, Hank Ballard and The Midnighters, are liberally represented with two more stellar examples of their historic invention (Do You Know How To Twist and Mr. Twister) ...
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The rocking music here is mostly from the 1950s and '60s (classics such as Get With It, One Hand Loose, Tear It Up) but some later tracks remind us that Charlie Feathers was playing and recording his own version of rockabilly in Memphis for over 40 years.Feathers was one of the very few artists who really did have a style all his own. His rock was not the same as anyone else's. It was more country, yet also more bluesy, ...
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The Wild OneOnce you've been on a bike, you will not want to give it up. Riding a motorcycle became a synonym forfreedom already at the beginning of the 20th century. In those days you probably could feel that freedom even more than today, because there was neither the obligation to wear a safety gear nor a lot of traffic signs. In the early 1950s, music and film took up this phenomenon; in 1953, the first real motorcycle movie was ...
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Features Black Lips They’re not evil! Twenty years of transgressive garage Brainticket On the trail with the pan‐European ’70s psych enigmas Dorothy Ashby The jazz harpist who transcended genre and expectation UK Psych CompsThe genesis and development of the format that continues to bloom Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil How Brazil’s most promising young talents were exiled to London, and the music that surrounded their adventure Regulars Thoughts & Words Your letters, tweets and emails Shindiggin’ What’s hot on the ...
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Singer-songwriter Peter Daltrey returns with a brand-new album Running Through Chelsea together with The Know Escape. As one of Britain’s finest songsmiths of the 1960s and 1970s, Peter’s voice continues to convey magic and emotion with a lustre of lysergic lyrical lacquer. His brilliant 60’s group Kaleidoscope were one of the great psychedelic groups to emerge from the U.K. during those heady days. With infectious pop tunes laced with folkrock jingle-jangle goodness and anapaestic lyrics that set them apart from ...
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Singer-songwriter Peter Daltrey returns with a brand-new album Running Through Chelsea together with The Know Escape. As one of Britain’s finest songsmiths of the 1960s and 1970s, Peter’s voice continues to convey magic and emotion with a lustre of lysergic lyrical lacquer. His brilliant 60’s group Kaleidoscope were one of the great psychedelic groups to emerge from the U.K. during those heady days. With infectious pop tunes laced with folkrock jingle-jangle goodness and anapaestic lyrics that set them apart from ...
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