Tocsin is YONL’s 2013 release.
Sax player singing through his instrument while playing arpeggiated lines
New York big band arrangements taken out of the world of schmaltz
In their own words “The Cosmic Dead are a Psych / Drone / Space / Krautrock collective from Glasgow, UK”
The name should tell you something, well it doesn’t. They’re enthusiastic, and brilliant in places
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Polish experimental dark jazz with serious leanings towards doom, what could be better. This album is as beautiful as it is full of promise.
Saying Verma are from Chicago implies that means something. Most people fancing up some narrative which draws logical conclusions like pin marks on a map in a detective story, noting a thread that tie a scene offering up such bands as Big Black & Unwed Sailor in a perversion of twisted thought that only the enlightened protagonist can illuminate. A hackneyed would-be detective-journo conclusion “The next band will sound like this.. because of this….” because of whatever scene, whatever label. It means nothing.
Unless it means nothing to the band. I dunno, frankly it’s redundant.
Which is something that “Salted Earth” is far from. This inspired live performance of experimental/drone/krautrock/*insert other words here* was released in 2010.
Lamp are Lamp.
A two-piece of drums and guitar/vocals from Cork. Unnervingly infectiously abrasive and catchy stop-start-stop-and-start-again-with-a-whole-new-take-on-whats-been-gone-before jazzy in places post-punk circus music extraordinaire!
Sagittarius is the name of their latest release. Names can be descriptive, and if you believed in all that witchery of the zodiac you could in retrospect attach some meaning to this, but probably not predict where they’ll go next. Fantastic stuff!
