Various – Steppin’ Out: The Roots of Garage Rock 1963–1965 Rock ’n’ roll was still a toddler when the kids on ‘Steppin’ Out: The Roots of Garage Rock 1963–1965’ started treating it like a battlefield. That’s the image that kept coming back to me while listening to this sprawling, 94‑track set: one of those World […]
Various – ‘Analog 2025’ – Unexplained Sounds Group ‘Analog 2025’ arrives with tape flutter, slow pitch wobble, spring reverb that sounds like a corridor, and the soft, humanised clipping that turns a tone into an animated corpse. It’s not nostalgic in the cosy sense; it’s in the same world as hauntology, a catalogue of misremembered […]
Various – So High I’ve Been: A European Rock Anthology 1967–1973 3CD Set – Cherry Red For decades, the story of rock music has been told as if it were a transatlantic conversation between Britain and America. The mythology is familiar: London and Liverpool, San Francisco and Los Angeles, New York and Detroit. Yet while […]
The R.I.P Man – Dir. Jamie Langlands The Terrifier franchise, three films which range from surprisingly good to not surprising, has reminded filmmakers that there is always room for a new horror icon. Just now, I have come up with Seagull Man, a deranged psychopath who ‘pecks’ out the eyes of holidaymakers to compensate for […]
