Sunday, April 27, 2025

Thomas Andrew Doyle – Incineration Ceremony

If the temporary abandonment of the moniker Tad is a stripping bare of sorts, the latest release by the great survivor of the early 90s alternative music scene is positively hardcore in its gynaecological musical content. It would be easy to flap our arms and proclaim this as a massive deviation from the norm, an approach […]

The Horror of Thomas Andrew Doyle

It has been just under 25 years since the band Tad split up. Their final single, ‘Oppenheimer’s Pretty Nightmare‘, was released in 1999, and a collection of latter-day recordings and errant stray tracks, ‘Quick and Dirty‘ appeared in 2018. Since then, Tad (the man) formed the band Hog Molly, releasing one album, ‘Kung-Fu Cocktail Grip‘ […]

Thomas Andrew Doyle – Aberrant

Unchained from the formalities of guitar, drums, bass, and vocals, Thomas Doyle – Tad – is a new beast entirely. Onto his seventh full-length release, there is even greater confidence in his doomy instrumental tracks, with the heaviness of his own historical output, the mathematical exactness of premium post-rock, and the otherworldly unease of experimental […]