Candle: Charlottefield
Charlottefield were a band that distinguished itself from the post-rock/post-hardcore/math-rock pack of the early 2000s by having an arresting lyrical sensibility and a phenomenal drummer. The band’s Brighton based personnel included Chris Butler till 2003 and James Dennet from 2003 on bass, Adam Hansford on guitar, Thomas House on guitar and vocals and Ashley Marlowe on […]
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 […]
First Contact
Welcome to my blog! I often get asked what kind of music I make, or listen to. I find it quite hard to answer this question. Not because my tastes are so eclectic, or outlandish, but because, although sharably specific, this kind of music doesn’t have a name. It’s more a combination of different aspects […]