Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Times Like Thees…Headcoats Assemble

Always the same – you wait oodles of years and two Headcoat/Headcoatee albums come along at once. In fairness, it makes a wallet-relieving change from them releasing an album every other week. Thee Headcoatees – ‘Man-Trap’ – Damaged Goods Longest out of action, by a long chalk, are Thee Headcoatees, but the full headcoat count […]

Ever Get the Feeling You’re Being Watched? Time to be Nerthus

Nerthus – ‘Love Songs via Echlon’ – Eighth Tower Records Echelon was the codename for a global surveillance network developed during the Cold War by the Five Eyes alliance – the likely suspects of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. Originally designed to monitor Soviet military and diplomatic communications, it evolved into […]

Helloween

Jonathan Sothcott: The English Charles Band; Albion’s Dino de Laurentiis; The Big Smoke’s William Castle; The Nation’s Jason Blum. Whichever your choice, the UK’s Gangster Flick Don has now shifted firmly across to where he began – horror – and that can only be a good thing. I started jotting down the different films that […]

IX TAB: Ropes, Rituals, and Inescapable Dread

Capricorni Pneumatici – ‘Ix Tab’, Eighth Tower Records I don’t often start reviews like this, but I think the accompanying text with this release speaks (in tongues) for itself: Ix Tab is an album dedicated to the mysterious Mayan deity, goddess of ropes and snares, and patroness of those who hang themselves. Originally released on […]

Beyond Telstar – The Horror and Western Themes of Joe Meek

Various – Joe Meek – A Curious Mind Outer Space! Horror! Death Discs! The Wild West! Demos!. Cherry Red Joe Meek, astronaut extraordinaire (in his Holloway flat), was the launchpad for some of British pop’s most eccentric experiments. But while the stars get most of the spotlight, A Curious Mind – a new 3CD box […]