'As for me, it is the dental phobia of albums' - Niall McGuirk is not won over by Karl Blau's 40th album in 20 years
Katie Kim's fourth LP Salt is "a fairly staggering leap forward" says Dudley
"Generally I require less harmonica from my rock music" - Dara Higgins gets past his nominative prejudices for King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's Nonagon Infinity
‘Phasing between post-sludge breakdowns and positively soaring riffs’ - MacDara Conroy on Kowloon Walled City’s Grievances
Draw the curtains, light the fire, press play again and bask in Loner Deluxe's warm glow - Neill Dougan gets Snowed Under
MacDara Conroy surveys the landscape of heavy, noisy and interesting music over the past 12 months
MacDara Conroy picks some unsung favourites from the past two years in heavy music
'I can't quite imagine Oscar Scheller fighting the class war, but who knows' - Niall McGuirk on Oscar Scheller's Cut And Paste, out now on Wichita Records
'a rounded, confident and thrilling statement of intent' - Neill Dougan on Overhead, The Albatross' debut LP Learning To Growl
Paranoid Visions 'are spitting their distaste for what is going on' - Niall McGuirk on their latest LP, Rebellion