Having sold his instruments to fund a nomadic 1970s lifestyle, eccentric Irish experimentalist Michael O’Shea was forced to create his own handmade answer to the sitars and zelochords he’d become accustomed to playing on his travels around the globe.Using an old door, 17 strings, chopsticks and combining them with phasers, echo units and amplification, the […]
2LP – Black Vinyl Rival Consoles has been concurrently in the foreground and background of electronic music since the late-‘00s; conjuring tense melancholia for Black Mirror soundtracks, playing in front of 10,000 dance fans at Drumsheds, selling out London’s Barbican Hall, and logging an expansive, wandering collection of synth-sculpted albums that explore a myriad of […]
Robert Plant’s Saving Grace is the first album featuring a new band of distinguished players, which he calls “a song book of the lost and found”. The genesis of Saving Grace began during the lockdown in “The Shire”, when Plant’s customary wandering was all but forbidden. While his recent adventures have centred around Nashville, having reunited with Alison Krauss […]
Emerging once again from the unending waves crashing upon our fragile time-craft (adrift on the eternal ocean, and taking on water), Dirty Three are (a) back, (b) tangled in seaweed, rank with saltwater and possessed of three rather ominous thousand-mile stares (at least!), and (c) not wasting another minute – as nothing is guaranteed. For […]
Album of the Week: Wednesday – Bleeds Staff Review ‘Bleeds is the sixth studio record from Asheville, North Carolina indie-rock band Wednesday. The follow-up to 2023’s Rat Saw God is another triumph from the Karly Hartzman–led quartet, with the preternaturally talented MJ Lenderman once again in the mix as a studio member. This album […]
“Spiritual Soul” is the next destination on the Eccentric Soul series journey, offering a rare groove with a transcendent, introspective flair.Peppered with lush horn arrangements and anchored by warm, reflective rhythms, this compilation channels the meditative pulse of a spiritual soul.A solid companion for quiet contemplation—whether you’re engrossed in Sunday reading or wandering through the […]
First released on August 18, 2023, “Outline of Nature” started as an experiment in building a modular synthesizer system and ended up as a voltage controlled outpouring of love for the natural world.Sylvan-born and pastoral-powered, sap-blooded and lightning-charged, this album grew out of the damp florescent corners of the woods, each note and sound, a […]
2 LP Black 2LP vinyl in printed inner sleeves in gatefold outer sleeve. Artwork designed by visual artist, Jonathan Zawada. A1. A Fake in a Faker’s World A2. Ice Shelf A3. Bugging Out Again B1. Back in the Game B2. The White Cliffs B3. The Spirit C1. Gangsters C2. This Conversation is Missing Your Voice […]
Imagine if Eric Carle had been signed to Ghost Box, or if the Look Around You team had ended up taking over the Radiophonic Workshop. If you can picture that kind of sound, we’re ready to welcome you to the Cosmic Neighbourhood. Cosmic Neighbourhood’s Gatherings is an album made for wild imaginations and deep daydreams. […]
Following the widely-acclaimed 2021 double album, Coral Island, The Coral announce ‘surreal Italian spaghetti western soundtrack’, Sea Of Mirrors. Bridging their UK Chart No.2 success and the sun-bleached sets of imagined films, the physical formats-only release of Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine show makes it two albums in one year Singular psych-folk-pop-rock wanderers, The Coral […]
