'an echo, a ghostly presence gifted to us by the powers of magnetic tape' - Ian Maleney on David Toop's 1978 recordings of Yanomami ritual songs & ceremonies
Niall McGuirk on The Helio Sequence's eponymous 6th album
'disorienting dispatches from a dark dream world' - Hugh McCabe on Chelsea Wolfe's 5th LP Abyss
Before Ever After is the same Blind Idiot God as before, except now in glorious high definition, says MacDara Conroy
'rooted in equal parts medieval Baroque, 20th Century experimentalism and West Coast pop songwriting' - Hugh McCabe on Julia Holter's Have You In My Wilderness
'the music still swoops and soars and gleefully revels in the sheer scale of its own ambition' - Hugh McCabe on Joanna Newsom's Divers
'quality sludge from a band who know exactly what they’re doing' - Ian Maleney on Slomatics' recently reissued Kalceanna and Flooding The Weir
‘Phasing between post-sludge breakdowns and positively soaring riffs’ - MacDara Conroy on Kowloon Walled City’s Grievances
‘There’s nothing sexy about it, but ironically that’s what makes it so alluring’ - MacDara Conroy on death metal quintet Vastum’s Hole Below
Field Music return from side project dalliances with Commontime, and it's uncommonly good