A dirgy industrial racket that feels more like a sweaty headbutt than a dancefloor bop — but that’s all good
Author: Conor McCaffrey
Avon Terror Corps make some noise for charity
Sonic nihilism — all for a good cause.
The clue’s in the title: Nd:YAG – Glitch & Clamour
More warped electronics on Dutch label New York Haunted
Italo disco Russian remodel: OID & Chikiss – Only Music Survives
One of the low-key highlights of Tallinn Music Week 2019 was ducking into the Balti Jaam food market for some noodles and being drawn to the left-field analogue synth-pop wafting down from the third floor. […]
Vital organs on Jute Gyte – Diapason
Ah fuck, surely it’s too early in the year for a two-and-a-half hour, one-track Jute Gyte album?
Always read the label – Deathbomb Arc
Deathbomb Arc founder Brian Miller on the California label’s experimental sounds: “Genres unknown since 1998.”
Moo kid’s 2020 in 40 albums
Great tunes, pity about the year etc.
All the right noises: November 2020
End of year lists are already flying in but steady on — 2020 ain’t over yet (the sooner the better though). Here’s the near-end-of-year soundtrack, from Wicker Man paganism, to black metal opera, militant techno […]
Here’s 50 Irish acts and labels for the final Bandcamp Friday of 2020
In the weirdest year for music any of us can remember, Bandcamp has been the undisputed champion. The monthly Bandcamp Friday offer — waiving all their fees so artists could take all the profits — […]
I’m Ready Now: Lizzie Fitzpatrick on Bitch Falcon’s debut album
Listening to the scraping feedback and blunt force trauma drums that kick open Bitch Falcon’s debut album, there’s an air of Nirvana’s ‘Scentless Apprentice’ — an act of distorted noise defiance on In Utero that […]
All the right noises: October 2020
Metal, techno, noise, hip-hop… harps… performance art featuring two people wrapping themselves in gaffer tape. All here.
SAMHAIN AUDIO NASTIES: A HALLOWEEN PLAYLIST
Sicko sonics for 89 minutes — about the same length as your favourite video nasty
Moo Kid’s Irish Bandcamp Weekly
Digging through bandcamp.com for the best in Irish underground sounds — this week fro leftfield electronics to headbutt grindcore. Animal Party Toronto-based Dubliner Sinead Bermingham is a producer and multi-instrumentalist whose creations are teeming with […]
Moo Kid’s Irish Bandcamp Weekly
A regular dig through bandcamp.com for independent Irish music.
‘Grief wrongs us so’: The Body – A Lament
The Body don’t leave you guessing too hard with their album and track titles. Previous album titles include: I Shall Die Here; No One Deserves Happiness; Mental Wounds Not Healing, and the Sylvia Plath-referencing I […]
