Review: Upupayāma ‘Mount Elephant’
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’
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’
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’
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’
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’
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
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’
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’
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’
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
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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