Gridfailure: Perpendicular To The Living Ones (2022)

Gridfailure: Perpendicular To The Living Ones (2022)

This is the first fully solo album from David Brenner since the Covid-lockdown-released ‘Epicenter MMXX: Quarantine Instrumentals’, and it finds him back at his unadulterated best. This is music so uncompromising that very few will even describe it as such, yet the...
Outshape: Enter The Bubble (2017)

Outshape: Enter The Bubble (2017)

Another CD from Thierry, another older release (2017), and yet another band which appears to have released something and then disappeared without trace. I did manage to track down an old Soundcloud page for the guys, but none of their links work anymore, while the...
Richard Gorman: Ship of Fools (2019)

Richard Gorman: Ship of Fools (2019)

Living on the other side of the world, and therefore not being impacted by Brexit or any UK politics whatsoever means I am not the target audience for this album, which is a collection of left wing political numbers by Richard Gorman who accompanies himself on...
Grant Geissman: Blooz (2022)

Grant Geissman: Blooz (2022)

35 years down the road, countless thousands of reviews and literally millions of words on the subject, and I am quite used to being out of step with many others, but I must admit I was perturbed to see this was one of the finalists in the 2023 Grammy’s in the ‘Best...
Jerusalem: Jerusalem (1972)

Jerusalem: Jerusalem (1972)

In a somewhat strange coincidence I was reading about this rare album and deciding I really ought to track it down when I was sent a copy of it to review as it has just been officially reissued by Talking Elephant. Recorded for Deram in 1971 it was produced by none...
Lost Vessels: All This Time (2023) single

Lost Vessels: All This Time (2023) single

I must admit I was not that impressed when I first saw Lost Vessels play at Crushfest, something they later admitted to me was the worst gig of their career, but since then they have improved in leaps and bounds. This has been noticed by others on the Auckland circuit...