Allow me, if you will, to get on my soapbox and shout about all the bloody brilliant music that has come out this year. If you’re willing to listen – not to me mind, to the music – you will find that 2019 has been one of the best years of the decade and as the 10s draw to their eventual but inevitable close, join me as we look at my top 20 (ish, I cheated) albums and five EPs of the year.
Somehow we’re veering towards the end of the Summer at an almighty pace. We’ve just finished one festival (ArcTanGent) and we’re now gearing up for another double header in the shape of Reading and Leeds – so we’ve themed our playlist feature this time around accordingly. With Reading and Leeds just a handful of days…
Following on from the first day of ArcTanGent 2019 – we’ve got the pick of the bunch from day two’s bands, courtesy of Sam Savigny. If you’ve not yet seen our highlights from day one of this year’s ArcTanGent, you can check them out on this link. Building from a whisper to a glorious, melancholy…
ArcTanGent was already shaping up to be a truly wonderous looking festival this year. The 2017 installment of the post-rock, shoegaze and hardcore festival based near Bristol was already boasting the likes of headliners Converge and Explosions In The Sky, TesseracT, Bossk, SikTh, God Is An Astronaut and more. Now they’ve gone and added another…
Something about stepping out of the mid afternoon sun of Camden Town, and into the dark, strobe-lit confines of the Electric Ballroom feels a little counter intuitive, but the venue is packed early for Desertfest day two to catch monolithic British doom-mongers Conan [7]. If slow and heavy is your thing, Conan may well be…
One of post metal’s favourite bands is taking to the road again and it’s quite a trip they will be taking. Russian Circles, fresh from a European tour with Chelsea Wolfe and the release of their critically acclaimed album Memorial are to embark on a jaunt across the US in the first part of 2014….