Swiss instrumentalist duo Closet Disco Queen release their new EP, Sexy Audio Deviance for Punk Bums, this Friday, April 7. Out through Crazysane Records, Unquiet Records and Division Records all at once, it’s the second offering from the guitar/drum two-piece of Jonathan Nido and Luc Hess behind their 2015 self-titled debut (review here), and in addition to the multitude of […]
By the time you’re finished wrapping your head around the title Sexy Audio Deviance for Punk Bums, Swiss instrumental duo Closet Disco Queen are finished running through the three tracks of the EP itself. Fair enough that the two-piece would get somewhat cumbersome and imbue the title of the follow-up to their 2015 self-titled debut […]
The hype for Swedish retro Satanists Ghost (not to be confused with the long-running Japanese avant rock troupe) has been overwhelming. I don’t think a day has gone by in the past month that I didn’t see someone recommending their Rise Above Records debut, Opus Eponymous – presumably because “self-titled” wouldn’t have been wordy enough […]
Lamp of the Universe‘s Kaleidoscope Mind is the second full-length of 2023 from Hamilton, New Zealand’s Craig Williamson. Delivered through Sound Effect Records, it bookends the year with The Eightfold Path (review here), the debut from Williamson‘s Dead Shrine project, which is the rock-psych to Lamp of the Universe‘s psych-rock as lines that used to […]
The Obelisk Questionnaire is a series of open questions intended to give the answerer an opportunity to explore these ideas and stories from their life as deeply as they choose. Answers can be short or long, and that reveals something in itself, but the most important factor is honesty. Based on the Proust Questionnaire, the […]
For however long I’ve run this site (and I know how long, I just don’t feel like talking about it), a consistent thread has been nerdery for the work of Craig Williamson, also known as the psych-mantra-folk solo-outfit Lamp of the Universe. The first post about the band on this site was in May 2009, and […]
Northern Italy’s Buss will release their debut full-length, Aroused, on Nov. 11. The raw-styled fuzz trio from Trieste situated near the Slovenian border issued their self-titled debut EP (review here) in May 2020 (whoops…) and have been kicking around since, honing live chops while building toward the right time for the album’s arrival. As they […]
Early It’s a kind of radical self-determinism. There is no rescue or guiding hand coming. The whole time I’ve been in Vegas, and really since Psycho got rolling here in 2016, I think I’m not the only one who’s been trying to understand just what the hell it’s all supposed to be about. I won’t […]
