Clocking in at just under twenty minutes, The C-30′s 8-song record is all killer and no filler. Opening song, ‘Rot ‘n’ Rollercoaster’ is a snarly Pistols-esque track with catchy lead wrapped up in a tight rhythmic package which follows on to ‘Snakes & Liars’, giving definite hints of scuzzy lo-fi indie at a dirgy tempo ...
Batchild are Matt Child and Bat Face. Batchild 1 was released a few months ago, and seeing as I was asked to review it, and there’s very little chance of anyone else having enough patience to listen to it more than twice, I shall oblige. Okay, Batchild 1 is bloody stupid. Most of the time ...
In late 2007 Michael Wookey released You Shield Me From Darkness, an exquisite album I likened to a musical carousel ride; “a work of art; a piece of beauty, a traditional, old-fashioned merry-go-round full of visual and aural pleasures.” Since then he has been living in Paris, still performing regularly, including a residency at the ...
Dorset Speed? Gosh, is this going to be like Pronghorn crossed with Slayer or something? No, it’s not. It’s nothing like it. I’m not sure that would have been a musical marriage I wanted to hear, so that was a relief, but reading through the song titles I still felt baffled. Baffled, but intrigued. The ...
You don’t see it very often, if at all, but earlier this week Morrissey finally agreed with his former Smiths cohort Johnny Marr on something. Not only did they agree, they agreed on something that involved the music of The Smiths, which undeniably is some of the most important and influential music to come out ...