MacDara Conroy reviews Jodis' Black Curtain, an album of 'awe-inspiring spaces, ethereal and dreamlike'.
Joined30th March 2011
Articles245
Comments17
"...a flurry of furious guitar shredding, hoarse-throated vocals and inhuman blastbeats..." MacDara Conroy reviews This World Is Dead from French grind freaks Blockheads
"To say this record is a difficult listen is putting it mildly..." MacDara Conroy reviews the Eugene S Robinson & Philippe Petit collaboration Last of the Dead Hot Lovers
'It's like being offered to go by the hand with a stranger into the dark woods' – MacDara Conroy talks to William Bennett, AKA Cut Hands and DJ Benetti, ahead of his Dublin shows on 29 and 30 December.
MacDara reviews Spacemad, the debut album from :Hounds: which is due for release on 1st January.
Macdara Conroy talks literature, legacies and reunions with Grant Hart.
"...an oppressive anti-symphony of rancid bleakness that will leave your soul wrung out and limp on the floor" - MacDara on Wölfbait's debut 'Wölfbait'.
"While each of their previous efforts came dripping with their own visceral intensity, the band's latest is something else altogether" - MacDara might have found his album of the year in Pig Destroyer's Book Burner.
Jogging have "grown the beard, both literally and figuratively" for their second LP Take Courage, says MacDara.
MacDara Conroy talks to Kurt Ballou of Converge, ahead of their gig in The Button Factory on November 30th.