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Author: Harry Holmes

Endless Floods 'Passages' Artwork
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Review: Endless Floods ‘Passages’

3rd June 20263rd June 2026 Harry Holmes Araki Records, Endless Floods, Permafrost Records, Post-Rock, Yoyodyne Records

Coming as it does a neat two years after Endless Floods’ last album, and just before a few days of

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Review: Ghold ‘Bludgeoning Simulations’

13th March 202613th March 2026 Harry Holmes Doom, Drone, Ghold, Human Worth, Noise-Rock

The sad news of Oli Martin’s passing – guitarist and much-appreciated Ghold comrade – came as an untimely shock while

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Review: AAA Gripper ‘We Invented Work For The Common Good’

29th May 202529th May 2025 Harry Holmes AAA Gripper, Noise-Rock, Post-Punk, Spoken Word, Wrong Speed Records

For a record that brings ‘work’ into the frame from the title, there is a surprising amount of play and

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Review: Morpholith ‘Dystopian Distributions Of Mass Produced Narcotics’

19th December 202419th December 2024 Harry Holmes Doom, Interstellar Smoke Records, Morpholith

It’s a few years now since I wrote about Morpholith’s last EP Null Dimensions, and at the time the sense

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Stoned Jesus / Mondo Drag / The Abbey UK Tour 2024
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Stoned Jesus / Mondo Drag / The Abbey @ The Fleece, Bristol, 17th October 2024

12th November 202412th November 2024 Harry Holmes Bristol, Mondo Drag, Stoned Jesus, The Abbey, The Fleece

I arrived at The Fleece somewhat jangled from the day, and on edge from some non-specific sense of menace in

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Legends Of The Desert: Volume 4 – Eagle Twin & The Otolith Artwork
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Review: Legends Of The Desert: Volume 4 – Eagle Twin & The Otolith

10th October 202410th October 2024 Harry Holmes Desert Records, Doom, Eagle Twin, Legends Of The Desert, The Otolith

With the Legends Of The Desert series the fine people of Desert Records have set about pulling together split releases

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Review: Blind Monarch ‘The Dead Replenish The Earth’

23rd September 202423rd September 2024 Harry Holmes Blind Monarch, Dry Cough Records, Funeral Doom, Heavenly Vault, minoRobscuR

After the great legend of recording hardship that lay behind Blind Monarch’s debut record, What Is Imposed Must Be Endured,

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Review: Endless Floods ‘Rites Futurs’

26th July 202426th July 2024 Harry Holmes Breathe Plastic Records, Endless Floods

It has been a good long while (seven years!) since Endless Floods recorded their last album, Circle The Gold, although

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Iota 'Pentasomnia' Artwork
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Review: Iota ‘Pentasomnia’

15th April 202415th April 2024 Harry Holmes Heavy Rock, Iota, Prog Rock, Psych Rock, Small Stone Records

News of a new Iota record provoked considerable excitement here – their 2008 one-and-apparently-done album Tales being both a nostalgia

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Review: Toadliquor ‘Back In The Hole’

11th March 202411th March 2024 Harry Holmes Sludge, Southern Lord, Toadliquor

What has brought Toadliquor crawling back out of the woodwork after being dormant for so long? Indeed, who are these

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Review: Ex Everything ‘Slow Change Will Pull Us Apart’

9th January 20249th January 2024 Harry Holmes Ex Everything, Neurot Recordings, Post-Hardcore

Noisy, angular and engaged, Slow Change Will Pull Us Apart is an urgent message from a skilled and experienced group

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