The Sleeping Shaman

Enter the hypnotic, boundary-pushing world of Ensemble Tikoro as The Shaman premieres their formidable new full-length work, Tortoise, ahead of its official arrival tomorrow, 23rd October, via Jangjang Records. Rooted in the rich cultural backdrop of Bandung, West Java, the collective merges the fury...

Writing reviews these days feels like a lot of effort. What with work, life admin, painting up mechs for Battletech, spending time with the kids and let’s be frank, laziness, it needs to be something really tempting for me to (figuratively) get off my fat backside and email The Shaman for a promo to review.

It’s certainly possibl...

If you want an introduction into the world of psychedelic rock mixed with shoegaze, that’s blended with electronica and all wrapped up in layers of cosmic wonderment, then you don’t need to look much further than Brazilian group Firefriend.

Sulfur was originally released in 2018, but it’s as culturally relevant now as it wa...

I am going to go ahead and begin with an admission before I get into the nuts and bolts of the latest Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats release, Shapes Of Midnight – their seventh overall, and first on their own label, Killer Candy Records. They are easily among my favorite bands of the last fifteen years. Admittedly, I...

One of the things that draws me to just about anything released by Berlin-based Pelagic Records is a shared vision of what post- (insert label) music could be. Whether it is the shimmering post-rock of Oh Hiroshima, the dark beats of Thot, or the hammer blow of Zatokrev, The Ocean Collective’s main man Robin Staps has gathered like-minded art...