Field Music return from side project dalliances with Commontime, and it's uncommonly good
‘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
‘Phasing between post-sludge breakdowns and positively soaring riffs’ - MacDara Conroy on Kowloon Walled City’s Grievances
'quality sludge from a band who know exactly what they’re doing' - Ian Maleney on Slomatics' recently reissued Kalceanna and Flooding The Weir
'the music still swoops and soars and gleefully revels in the sheer scale of its own ambition' - Hugh McCabe on Joanna Newsom's Divers
'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
Before Ever After is the same Blind Idiot God as before, except now in glorious high definition, says MacDara Conroy
'disorienting dispatches from a dark dream world' - Hugh McCabe on Chelsea Wolfe's 5th LP Abyss
Niall McGuirk on The Helio Sequence's eponymous 6th album
'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