MacDara Conroy can't shake the notion that the Melvins have phoned it in with covers collection Everybody Loves Sausages
'If you’re the kind of person who thinks ALONE is some kind of punishment, then maybe this brand of introspection on diffidence ain’t for you.' Dara Higgins on Pan American's Cloud Room, Glass Room.
'Yes, that good. In fact, it’s almost perfect' - Neill Dougan seems to like September Girls' new single Talking.
'You can’t really go wrong with Townes van Zandt if you want to keep it down, residing as he does on the miserable side of doleful' - Dara Higgins on My Proud Mountain's Record Store Day 10" of Townes Van Zandt covers.
'...a striking melancholy that conveys not only an exhausted resignation at the band members' predicament - a very Irish sentiment that, too - but also seething anger at what has brought them to this point' - MacDara Conroy can relate to Greece's Ruined Families.
'Take those notes on top of notes on top of notes and extrapolate a tune, a song, god forbid a melody. These lads do that. They’ve created a strange and vibrant canvas here.' - Dara Higgins on Tera Melos' X'ed Out.
'When bands have tight, harmonious vocals, reviewers, and press releases, like to point it out. I like to point out that being able to sing in harmony should be the least of your fucking tricks if you making music like this' says Dara Higgins, not unreasonably.
"...the nuance of the playing and interaction is what lifts them from bleak and repetitive drone into something far more layered and interesting" - Ian Maleney on Mohammad's Som Sakrifis.
Call Of The Void's debut Dragged Down A Dead End Path is a 'relentless torrent of downtuned doom grind' says MacDara Conroy
Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo 'crystallises the Hey Colossus sound into a stronger, more precious commodity' says MacDara Conroy