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★★★ Name it prog rock, psychedelia, metal, “warfare music” or the most violent version of Mars Volta´s alumni, but Tiny Fingers has an impressive ability to evoke destructive passages that are morbidly satisfying […]

★★★ propagating electronic malady over guitar-orientated machismo while North Korean school girls in the audience, free in their conformity, dance in unison; flying red handkerchiefs; mourning the dead […]

★★★★ allusions to a mutant cockroach oligarchy, ruling a post-Ballardian netherworld where a binary-programmed slave drum orchestrates the working day […]

★★★★ These guys entrust their audience to sink deep into bitter-sweet hallucinations, which bark and bite at optical nerve endings, seducing the listener into a milky sleep, soused in feedback sweat spurned on by ecstasy nightmares […]

★★★½ Experimental pop with a dark atmosphere, deep, echoey production, lots of piano, somber sounding acoustic guitars and all kinds of strange shimmering keyboards […]

★★★½ Although obvious comparisons can be made to popular female punk bands such as Slant 6 in terms of lyrical content as well as style, Primetime deserve to have this EP looked at individualistically. Their dissection of social anatomy and sexual politics is almost charmingly idiosyncratic […]

Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway: Strange instrumentation, no real choruses, no hooks and a weird shrieking voice […]

Despite the album was considered by the majority of the music press as “the worst album ever made”, Lester Bang considered Lou Reed´s Metal Machine Music (1975) as “the greatest record ever made in the history of the human eardrum”, while Lou said that with this infamous collection of noise, he invented heavy metal, grunge, noise rock and everything related to feedback-like perversion. And, maybe he´s right…Enjoy one of the best music reviews ever written […]

REVIEW ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FOR GIGSLUTZ – Powerful melodies, allusions to The Smiths, pop culture references, a touch of glam, wistful acoustic guitars, memorable and eloquent verses, brilliant jingles, humor combined with darkness and introspective moments a la Viva Hate, Bona Drag, or Vauxhall and I […]

Based in the not so warm coast of Brighton, these kids (between 18 and 19 years old) fascinated with reverbs and barricades of noise, certainly wrapped up some sonic tension embellished by impenetrable riffs and post-punk-like monotonous drums […]