Tartufi – These Factory Days (Southern Records)
By turns satisfyingly complex, irritatingly whimsical and intellectually demanding “These Factory Days” is a complicated album that defies easy…
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Bodypolitics – The Space Of A Jump (2419 Record Label)
It shouldn’t take any more than two and a half minutes to realise how good this is. Opening track…
Flint Kids – Day Nil (Abstrakt Reflections)
So now that idiots like Skrillex and Chase and Status have killed dubstep and drum’n’bass, does that mean that…
Disappears – Kone EP (s/r)
Disappears have been on my radar as a name but I’ve never got round to investigating further, so it…
Atomic Clocks – Magdan In Charleroi (s/r)
A scruffy but well meaning jazz fusion record that is ok in small bursts but exhausting as a whole…
Mike Patton – The Place Beyond The Pines Original Sound Track (Milan Records)
Yes folks, it’s ‘Ken gushes about Mike Patton’ time again. I can’t be bothered to explain why Mike Patton…
Benjamin Shaw – Summer In the Box Room (Glass Reservoir)
This beautifully packaged album opens with a hissy sample of some German children rummaging around before shambling into a…
Pombagira – Maleficia Lamiah (Black Axis Records)
Epic and decidedly magnificent sludge / doom metal with psychedelic overtones delivered in a two huge slabs, the titular…
Coma Wall / Undersmile – Wood And Wire (Shaman Recordings)
The “Narwhal” album from Undersmile was a brilliant, if desultory experience, and I was very interested to see what…
Suuns – Images Du Futuur (Secretly Canadian)
I don’t really need to review this record, it’s already been picked up and praised by the Pitchfork’s and…