Review: Shun ‘Shun’
As I type, one of the great and elusive joys of life is happening…the sun is shining in the UK!
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Author: David J McLaren
Review: Genghis Tron ‘Dream Weapon’
For the moment there, around a dozen years ago, there were many people pointing at Genghis Tron as being the
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Review: Crawl Below ‘9 Mile Square’
It’s a peculiarly British trait that musicians generally don’t write and perform songs about where they’re from. There are of course
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Review: Indica Blues ‘We Are Doomed’
Has anyone noticed that over the last year or so there has been a definite whiff of Seattle about quite
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Review: Battle Hag ‘Celestial Tyrant’
Celestial Tyrant is California-based Battle Hag’s second full length album. I should be clear straight away that Battle Hag are
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Review: Barbarian Hermit ‘One’ Reissue
I ’m as partial as the next man/woman/person/lifeform to listening to music that makes me think about the world we
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Review: Wall ‘Wall’ EP
There is a wonderful sense of excitement attached to listening to an obscure record that you’ve dug up from the
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Top Ten Of 2020: David J McLaren
2020. Unprecedented times. Made us realise what’s really important. Our modern lives really do exist on a knife-edge. Bill Gates now controls
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Review: Paradise Lost ‘Draconian Times’ 25th Anniversary Edition
I had intended to start this review with a throwaway phrase, something like ‘is there anyone in Sleeping Shamanland that
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Review: Bethmoora ‘Thresholds’
Bethmoora hail from the land of Peter Schmeichel and Carlsberg. No, not Manchester…Denmark. Thresholds is Bethmoora’s debut full length release,
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Review: Yatra ‘All Is Lost’
Some of the best albums ever are firmly rooted in the time and place they were made. Whether that be
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