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Review: Johno Leeroy ‘The Magnolia Sessions’

11th December 202014th January 2021 Rob Bryant Anti-Corporate Music, Country, Folk, Johno Leeroy, The Magnolia Sessions

This is the third instalment in Anti-Corporate’s superb The Magnolia Sessions series and it doesn’t disappoint. If you’ve heard the

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Review: Jahbulong ‘Eclectic Poison Tones’

30th October 20201st December 2020 Harry Holmes Eclectic Poison Tones, Go Down Records, Jahbulong, Stoner Doom

The second album from Jahbulong, a Verona, Italy trio that brings us four relaxed and expansive songs, with a nod

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Review: Junior Bruce ‘Pray For Death’

28th October 202027th November 2020 Mark Hunt-Bryden Junior Bruce, Metal, Pray For Death, Sludge, Sludgelord Records

Junior Bruce have seemingly flown under the radar for quite some time. Despite forming in the swamps of DeLand, Florida

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Review: Jason Dea West ‘The Magnolia Sessions’

27th October 202026th November 2020 Rob Bryant Anti-Corporate Music, Benjamin Tod, Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Jason Dea West, The Magnolia Sessions

As a label, Anti-Corporate Music brings an abundance of volume and crusty intensity to the music world, but today I’m

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Review: Jupiterian ‘Protosapien’

4th September 20207th October 2020 Jamie Grimes Death Doom, Jupiterian, Protosapien, Transcending Obscurity Records

I keep seeing the word ‘sludge’ used in relation to Brazilian coffin botherers Jupiterian, and it always strikes me as

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Review: Jaye Jayle ‘Prisyn’

19th August 202024th September 2020 Reza Mills Ben Chisholm, Evan Patterson, Experimental, Jaye Jayle, Prisyn, Sargent House

You may be familiar with Evan Patterson via noise rock outfit Young Widows and hardcore bands The National Acrobat and

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Review: JG Thirlwell & Simon Steensland ‘Oscillospira’

23rd April 202022nd May 2020 Jamie Grimes Experimental, Ipecac Recordings, JG Thirlwell, Oscillospira, Simon Steensland

Five decades into a career in genre busting, JG Thirlwell needs no introduction. The man of a thousand musical aliases

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Review: Jon Free And Neddal Ayad ‘Emerald’

24th March 20201st May 2020 Jamie Grimes Emerald, Experimental, Jon Free, Lost Hiss Recordings, Neddal Ayad

A short and sweet joint effort here from two guitarists who both operate in the instrumental realm. The UK’s Jon

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Jess And The Ancient Ones ‘Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes’ CD/LP/DD 2015

19th November 20154th November 2019 Will Beattie 2015, CD, Classic Rock, Digital, Jess And The Ancient Ones, LP, Occult Rock, Psych, Review, Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes, Svart Records, Will Beattie

The ‘occult rock’ tag has been thrown around a fair few times over the last five years; in 2015 the

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Jungfrau ‘Nacht’ LP/DD 2015

4th May 20153rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2015, Digital, Experimental, Head Of Crom Records, Jamie Grimes, Jungfrau, Krautrock, LP, Nacht, Psych, Review

Given both their band name, Jungfrau, and album title, Nacht, are in German, and they’re self describes as “Psych-Kraut”, you’d

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Jess And The Ancient Ones ‘Castaneda’ 10″ 2014

28th October 20143rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 10", 2014, Blues, Castaneda, Jess And The Ancient Ones, Occult, Review, Rock, Sandy Williamson, Svart Records

Jess And The Ancient Ones are one of these bands that you just get, or you don’t. The whole female-fronted

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