Category: Post-Rock / Instrumental

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ALBUM REVIEW: Thurston Moore – Rock N Roll Consciousness

The Sonic Youth guitar slinger and solo artist returns with a new album, his second with his current group which includes My Bloody Valentine’s Debbie Googe, Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley and guitarist James Sedwards. Familiarity with those players on-stage and in-studio pays off in spades with this confident, relaxed and expansive new record. Moore has always vacillated between skewed punk/art-pop and experimental soundscapes and … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Thurston Moore – Rock N Roll Consciousness

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Electronica, Experimental, Live Photos, Live Reviews, Post-Rock / Instrumental

LIVE REVIEW: My Disco @ Newtown Social Club

My Disco, Marcus Whale, Hviske @ Newtown Social Club, 11 February 2017 Minimalism shaping grand emotion was the order of the night at NSC for My Disco’s last stop on their summer tour. From the headliners down through Marcus Whale and opening duo Hviske, there was a common thread of space, intensity and the blurring of technology and organic instrumentation to create dramatic musical pieces. Hviske are … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: My Disco @ Newtown Social Club

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Album Reviews, Experimental, Opinion, Post-Punk, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Video

FILM REVIEW: Once More With Feeling

Music documentaries often follow one of a few common narratives, whether documenting the rise (and often) fall of a band or musician, or following the making of an album or tour. Once More With Feeling fills a couple of different roles in that it acts as a preview and scene-setter for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ new album Skeleton Tree, released the day after … Continue reading FILM REVIEW: Once More With Feeling

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Album Covers, Electronica, Experimental, News, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Soul, Stream

NEW MUSIC: Lambchop –The Hustle

Lambchop have been fairly quiet of late with their last LP (Mr. M) coming out in 2012. In the intervening years the band, among other things, performed their landmark album Nixon in full and head honcho Kurt Wagner released an electronic album (The Diet) under the name HeCTA with Lambchop members Ryan Norris and Scott Martin in 2015. They’ve now announced that a brand new Lambchop LP … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Lambchop –The Hustle

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ALBUM REVIEW: Sophie Hutchings – Wide Asleep

In recent years there has been a wealth of composers that fall into the loosely-aligned world of modern-classical, post-ambient, avant-electronic and instrumental post-rock. They draw from all of those styles and explore their compositional meeting points. Locally, our leading light is Sophie Hutchings and on her third album she again finds new and fascinating ways to create cerebral and emotionally rich and ornate arrangements – led … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Sophie Hutchings – Wide Asleep

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ALBUM REVIEW: M. Craft – Blood Moon

Martin Craft has created a holistic and moving third album. Born from time spent on the edge of the Mojave desert, these piano-based meditations on time, space and nature feel both intimate and expansive with hushed, dreamy vocals that blossom into much larger orchestrated sections. There are all manner of ambient environmental sounds in the mix, lurking below the surface of the recordings and adding … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: M. Craft – Blood Moon

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Guitar Rock, Live Photos, Live Reviews, Post-Punk, Post-Rock / Instrumental

LIVE REVIEW: METZ, My Disco, Low Life @ OAF, Sydney (10/02/16)

Low Life ambled on stage and lurched into a 30 minute set of songs that swung from Black Flag punk to Bauhaus goth dirges, often within the same song. You got the feeling the songs could fall apart at any time yet the rhythm section was solid – allowing the guitars to dispatch primitive punk bar chords, heavily chorused textures and squalls of feedback. Low … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: METZ, My Disco, Low Life @ OAF, Sydney (10/02/16)

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Album Reviews, Metal/Hard Rock, New Release, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Soul, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: Tindersticks – The Waiting Room

Tindersticks have traveled their own considered career trajectory with intermittent suspensions of activity and then a return to active duty, always with the same ear for detail in their nuanced and ornate, soulful baroque pop music.The Waiting Room is yet another excellent entry to their discography. It’s measured and draws on found sounds, field recordings, guest vocalists, jazz, post-rock, pastoral psychedelia and just the right … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Tindersticks – The Waiting Room

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NEW MUSIC: Explosions In The Sky – Disintegration Anxiety

Texan post-rockers Explosions In The Sky return in 2016 with their new album The Wilderness on April 1st. Released locally on Spunk Records, The Wilderness is the band’s sixth album, and first non-soundtrack effort since 2011’s Take Care, Take Care, Take Care. TRACKLISTING 01 Wilderness 02 The Ecstatics 03 Tangle Formations 04 Logic of a Dream 05 Disintegration Anxiety 06 Losing the Light 07 Infinite Orbit 08 … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Explosions In The Sky – Disintegration Anxiety

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Garage Rock, Indie Rock, Live Photos, Live Reviews, Metal/Hard Rock, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Psych, shoegaze

LIVE REVIEW: Moon Duo, Grinding Eyes, Glass Skies @ NSC, Sydney (10/12/15)

Opening this evening of psych rock was Glass Skies who whipped up a hard stoner/space rock barrage of riffs and grooves for the few early arrivals. The singer/guitarist overplayed his hand with teeth and behind-the-head solos but they nailed the ‘rock’ aspect of psychedelic music convincingly. Grinding Eyes enhanced the tripped-out mood of the evening with a a sea of projected images flooding the band … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Moon Duo, Grinding Eyes, Glass Skies @ NSC, Sydney (10/12/15)

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Audio Stream, New Music, Post-Punk, Post-Rock / Instrumental

NEW MUSIC: My Disco Return With New Single And Album

Melbourne trio My Disco have been fairly quiet of late but now they’re about to unleash their new album and going on the sound of first single ‘King Sound’ they’ve stripped things back even further to a dark, minimal and stealth-like piece of musical machinery. Brutal, brooding and clinical it captures the airspace between post-rock and dark electronica perfectly. The new LP Severe has been … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: My Disco Return With New Single And Album

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ALBUM REVIEW: Spain – Sargent Place

Spain’s music is generally slow, swirling, soulful and hypnotic with its core sound circling itself with only minor variation. After a decade-long break Josh Haden returned with The Soul Of Spain in 2012 and now Sargent Place continues the same vibe with some psych rock explorations on the opening track and warm currents of gospel music flowing through other songs. Spain have never faltered on … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Spain – Sargent Place

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