'All that's left by the end is a shambling corpse, a steady, unsettling gaze from dead eyes' Helm's new EP is no fun at all.
'an album of ragged, roughly-hewn, juddering oddball folk, the perfect soundtrack for a doomed world' Neill Dougan on Chuckle Change And Also from Nashville's The Chewers.
'I can never imagine them being in a studio and someone having to say “One more take, this time with feeling”' - Niall McGuirk on New Model Army's recently released album Between Dog And Wolf.
The Act of Killing is 'an extraordinary documentary that lays bare the wounds Indonesia has inflicted on itself', says MacDara Conroy
'These are rock songs at war with themselves' - MacDara Conroy submits to Dethscalator's Racial Golf Course, No Bitches
"It's difficult to know how to take it really, are you being condescended to? Are you in on the joke? Is it a joke? It's pleasant to listen to anyway, but its purpose – if it has one – is difficult to divine." - Ian Maleney on Mature Themes, the new album from Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.
Day Three of Niall McGuirk's Rebellion Festival 2017 roundup
Tied To Machines release a three track, seft titled, Rocky O'Reilly-produced EP this week.
'Giddiness isn’t quite what you might expect from a hip-hop concert, but this is no ordinary concert, and El-Producto and Killer Mike are no ordinary artists' - Siobhán Kane on Run The Jewels' recent Opium Rooms gig
"He is, perhaps, a performance artist by nature, who happens to make great records" - Siobhán Kane on Willis Earl Beal's gig in The Sugar Club