Acoustic

Album & EP Reviews C 

Conny Ochs ‘Black Happy’ CD/LP/DD 2013

20th February 20133rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2013, Acoustic, Alex Varley, Black Happy, Blues, CD, Conny Ochs, Dark, Exile On Mainstream Records, Folk, LP, Review

German acoustic singer/songwriter Conny Ochs is not the typical style of music you’d find on The Sleeping Shaman but then

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Boris / Joe Volk – Split 12″ 2012

14th January 20132nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, Acoustic, Atmospheric, Boris, Experimental, Heavy, Invada Records, Joe Volk, Pete Green, Review, Split 12"

Trying to even remotely predict what Japanese psych/drone/doom/pop mentalists Boris will do next is a task akin to fire-toasting marshmallows

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News 

Baroness Share Video Of John Baizley And Pete Adams Acoustic Performance

18th December 2012 Lee Edwards Acoustic, Baroness, John Baizley, New Video, News, Pete Adams, Relapse Records, Stretchmarker

Baroness’s John Baizley and Pete Adams share an acoustic performance of “Stretchmarker” via their website (www.baronessmusic.com).  The clip, recorded in

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Crown vs STValley – Split EP 2012

9th November 20122nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, Acoustic, Atmospheric, Black Metal, Crown, Dark, Doom, Pete Green, Review, Self Released, Sludge, Split EP, STValley

Scything black metal riffage… subtle acoustic serenity… more scything black metal riffage… more subtle acoustic serenity… the end. Don’t worry,

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Scott Kelly And The Road Home ‘The Forgiven Ghost In Me’ CD/LP/DD 2012

16th August 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2012, Acoustic, Americana, Blues, CD, Country, Digital, Folk, LP, My Proud Mountain, Neurot Recordings, Review, Scott Kelly, Scott Kelly And The Road Home, The Forgiven Ghost In Me, Tom McKibbin

You could be forgiven for thinking of Scott Kelly as a solely acoustic artist these days. Apart from Shrinebuilder and

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Scott Kelly, Steve Von Till & Wino ‘Songs Of Townes Van Zandt’ CD/LP/Digital 2012

26th June 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2012, Acoustic, Country, Digital, Folk, LP, My Proud Mountain, Neurot Recordings, Review, Scott "Wino" Weinrich, Scott Kelly, Songs Of Townes Van Zandt, Steve Von Till, Tom McKibbin, Townes Van Zandt, Townes Van Zandt Tribute, Wino

If you were going to ask for an album of Townes Van Zandt covers, you couldn’t ask for a trio

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Album & EP Reviews N 

Nate Hall ‘A Great River’ CD/Digital 2012

21st June 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, A Great River, Acoustic, Atmospheric, Blues, CD, Digital, Folk, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Nate Hall, Neurot Recordings, Review, USX

Understandably heavily associated with its founding members bands Neurosis and Tribe Of Neurot, Neurot Recordings has quietly (well maybe not

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Mike Scheidt ‘Stay Awake’ CD/LP/Digital 2012

7th June 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2012, Acoustic, Atmospheric, CD, Digital, LP, Mike Scheidt, Review, Solo, Stay Awake, Thrill Jockey Records, Tom McKibbin, Yob

In recent years YOB have become one of the most popular bands in the doom metal canon, taking the essence

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Album & EP Reviews U 

Uaral ‘Lamentos A Poema Muerto’ CD 2007

8th May 20123rd September 2019 Jawor Iwanow 2007, Acoustic, CD, Doom, Folk, Funeral Doom, Jawor Iwanow, Lamentos A Poema Muerto, Octagon Music Group, Review, Uaral

The act of mixing genres, once regarded as blasphemy, has become really common nowadays. Two styles of music used particularly

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Album & EP Reviews W 

Wino & Conny Ochs ‘Heavy Kingdom’ CD/LP 2012

1st December 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2012, Acoustic, Americana, Blues, CD, Conny Ochs, Doom, Exile On Mainstream Records, Folk, Heavy Kingdom, LP, Ollie Stygall, Review, Scott "Wino" Weinrich, Wino, Wino & Conny Ochs

You have to wonder if Wino wakes up in the morning confused as to which hat he should be wearing

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Album & EP Reviews T 

Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children Of The Knight ‘The Bleak’ CDEP 2010

23rd September 20103rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2010, Acoustic, Blues, CDEP, Folk, Ollie Stygall, Review, Trippy Wicked, Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children Of The Knight, Unplugged, Witch Hunter Records

Trippy Wicked and the Cosmic Children of the Knight…or Trippy Wicked as I prefer to call them to save rubbing

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