Review: Project Gemini led by Paul Osborne presented its latest album Colours & Light recently and it again made an impact with its folk rock, psych soundtracks and cinematic funk sounds showing a more confident and layered sound compared to his debut. This is a limited 7" taken from the upcoming Deluxe Edition of the album with a distortion-laden, progressive rock remix by Jack Sharp of Wolf People/Large Plants, along with an unreleased original track from the album's recording sessions.
Review: The Pambele band's debut album blends Afro-Colombian influences taken from their shared heritage with the vivid sounds of 60s psychedelic rock. It's a work rich in "Caribbean creolisation" with traditional Colombian percussion, joyful, rhythmic vocals and intricate guitar melodies all underpinned with wild organ tones. This powerful cross-fertilisation creates a transatlantic but also distinctly Caribbean sound that draws you into a world of exuberant musical atmosphere. The tunes often get you into a trance-like state while combining raw improvisation and dancey rhythms. It's an authentic escape to a very distant part of the world but one with a universal sense of rhythm that cannot be escaped.
Review: Ahhhh. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs don't miss a trick, do they? Kings of grinding guitar riffs, and probably the loudest thing to roar out of Newcastle since The Wildhearts were upstarts, 2025's follow up to the stunning Land of Sleeper breaks from it predecessor's focus on headphone listening and launches itself into the real world with the snarling ferocity of a wolf that was injured, got nursed back to health, and now wants some revenge. Death Hilarious certainly tastes sweet enough, although it's anything but cold. Guaranteed to make you sweat like a pig - you get the point... this is dense, thick, unrelenting psyche-metal that owes plenty to pioneers like Sabbath and Motorhead, but makes no secret of the fact these North Easterners are looking to nobody for their sound. An original powerhouse.
Review: The band often described as the British MC5, The Pink Fairies wore the clothes of the hippy era but their garage rock also paved the way for space rockers like Hawkwind, metalheads Motorhead - Larry Willis of the Fairies featured in their original line up - and the punk movement. This neat collection compiles ten tracks recorded for different BBC sessions, with versions of PF classics like 'Uncle Harry's Last Freak-Out' and 'Portobello Shuffle' - paying tribute to the then West London squatland and alternative lifestyle HQ - rubbing shoulders with uniquely executed covers of well worn rock standard like Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B Goode' and the early Lennon/McCartney classic 'I Saw Her Standing There'. A sumptuous slice of anarcho rock history.
Review: It's no wonder the Cardinal Fuzz label that is releasing this record have the eye of providence as their logo as they specialise in sensational garage psych and krautrock with mind expanding qualities. Chicago's experimental space punks Plastic Crimewave Syndicate are a case in point: exceptional in delivering fuzzed up throbbing, pulsing guitar-led wig outs and elegiac breakdowns with an improvised feel. This is a record that's impossible to remain still to. Where vocals come in, drenched in reverb, giving the impression he's singing from the bottom of a well it provides an electrifying lift, but it's equally compelling when they're indulging in belligerently shreddy instrumental passages. This is neo-Krautock that can be ranked up there with the likes of Follakzoid and Acid Mother's Temple.
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