Sharing Secrets in the Future Tense
The release of an excellent new album by Polvo, a band who was mainly active in the years 1990-1998, took me back to that golden age of leftfield American guitar music, when bands such as Polvo, Fugazi, Slint, Unwound, Lync, Codeine and Come formed and recorded their classic albums. These bands’ post-hardcore music was based […]
Candle: The Tupolev Ghost
For all I know, the Tupolev Ghost might be horrified to find themselves featured in a shoegaze-related blog. After all, their influence list includes such muscular noise propagators as Lightning Bolt, Slayer and Shellac. Though now that the band has broken up and become a genuine ghost, it might not matter so much anymore. Formed […]
Soon: Dead Wolf Club
The sound of London’s Dead Wolf Club, who release their new EP Healer tomorrow, has a vintage feel to it that comes from being so pertinently, excitingly now. It goes back to times when music was more than just another product in an infinitely downloadable world, when bands with a geeky and subcultural multi-gendered polytech […]