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Review: Upupayāma ‘Mount Elephant’

10th September 202410th September 2024 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Folk, Fuzz Club Records, Psych, Upupayāma

I’ve known Alessio Ferrari, the musical mastermind and multi-instrumentalist behind the captivating psych, acid and folk rock project Upupayāma, for

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Review: Uboa ‘Impossible Light’

13th August 202413th August 2024 Reza Mills Ambient, Experimental, Noise, The Flenser, Uboa

I have a soft spot for San Francisco based label The Flenser; Midwife, Mamaleek, Agriculture, Ragana and the recent Your

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Review: Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats ‘Nell’ Ora Blu’

24th May 202424th May 2024 Rob Walsh Prog, Psych, Rise Above Records, Soundtrack, Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats

When it comes to occult-tinged rock, there are perhaps few finer purveyors in the modern era than Uncle Acid And

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Review: Urzah ‘The Scorching Gaze’

22nd May 202422nd May 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden APF Records, Post-Metal, Prog Metal, Urzah

APF Records recently celebrated their seventh year of existence and with albums from the likes of Barbarian, Swamp Coffin and

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Review: Ufomammut ‘Hidden’

16th May 202416th May 2024 Reza Mills Doom, Neurot Recordings, Psych, Supernatural Cat, Ufomammut

Having reviewed and loved The Mon‘s 2023 album Eye, my appetite was thus whetted for Ufomammut‘s latest release Hidden. The

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Review: Utopia ‘Shame’

1st February 20241st February 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Independent, Technical Metal, Utopia

During the pandemic, I subsisted largely on a diet of APF Records releases and in 2021 I was asked if

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Review: Ufomammut ‘Crookhead’ EP

5th January 20245th January 2024 Josh Schneider Doom, Psych, Supernatural Cat, Ufomammut

Ufomammut are a major source of inspiration for me when I’m playing the guitar and are constantly heard emanating from

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Review: Unverkalt ‘A Lump Of Death: A Chaos Of Dead Lovers’

30th October 202330th October 2023 Lee Beamish Alternative, Argonauta Records, Post-Metal, Post-Rock, Unverkalt

There are times when my naivety to a band is my undoing. This has happened several times, including with the

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Review: Boris & Uniform ‘Bright New Disease’

16th June 202316th June 2023 Dave Bowes Boris, Doom, Drone, Hardcore, Metal, Sacred Bones Records, Uniform

The fusing of Japan’s premier noiseniks Boris and the stark, corrosive violence of Uniform makes both perfect sense and no

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Review: Upupayāma ‘The Golden Pond’

6th December 202218th January 2023 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Cardinal Fuzz Records, Centripetal Force Records, Folk, Psych, Upupayāma

The first time I came across Italian psych acid folk, multi-instrumentalist Alessio Ferrari aka Upupa Rot, whose name shortly changed

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Review: Opium Lord/Under – Split

10th August 202223rd September 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden APF Records, Noise-Rock, Opium Lord, Sludge, Under

The latest release from one of the hardest working labels around, Salford’s APF Records, sees them curate a collision of

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