For their second full-length release, Italian post-rock trio Ultraviolet Makes Me Sick go well beyond their original sparse remit and provide the listener with an exquisitely detailed and textured canvas to project their dreams onto. A wider range of instruments has been used to flesh out sonic ideas, and they've moved to a more layered studio sound. for lovers of Mogwai, Tortoise, GSYBE! and their like. [More]
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Second CD from Sharron, following-up her ecstatically received debut CD "Beautiful Twisted". More dark folk tales, gloriously played and sung by this unique artist. Recorded in Oxford, at home on an 8-track and in Dungeon Studios out in the Cotswolds. Guest musicians include Alec K. Redfearn of Rhode Island folk revolutionaries The Eyesores; BBC Award-winning fiddler Jon Boden, Giles Lewin of Grammy-nominated early music outfit The Dufay Collective; Jeffrey Alexander, formerly of psychedelic folk band The Iditarod and currently of Black Forest/Black Sea. First pressing sold out in record time, second available now. [More]
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Second CD from Californian singer song-writer and Jeweller Antler affiliate Donovan Quinn, following-up his superb "Cross and Satellite Station" on Lexicon Devil. Hammond organ, light touches of electric guitar and shaky tambourine jangles steer this album come close to pop before it skirts back into dark but colourful obscurity. Lyrically, the world of Dreampatterns is hermetical and makes best sense within its own boundaries but offers the listener a glimpse into an folk tales full of misty trees, birds, wine, archaic funerals, twins and odd Popes.
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Former Abunai! alumni expands his self-released "Dollar Star" CD-R EP into a full-length Camera Obscura CD, running a patch cord between meditative gauze-rock and full-on rocking psychedelia. Whether it's the huge harmonies that fill up "Coordinate Zero" (an audio picture-postcard from Amsterdam), the rock-solid drums and sharp guitar leads in "Perfect the First Time", a watery piano leading the way in "When the Day Crowd Leaves", or the muscular bass of "Stella Luna" Joe uses his unerring melodic sensibility to plunk stoned cyclical mantras onto the same skewer as twitchy psych-pop, delivering a delicious rock shish-kebab to your plate.
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"Cruel Machine" is Melbourne trio Greyscale's debut full-length album and is an extension of the sonic tapestry of 2001's self-released "Scientifically Rough" EP. Emotionally evocative, cinematic and forcefully beautiful; Cruel Machine' transports the listener into a distinctive mood zone which continually winds and weaves throughout the entire recording. From sparse to dense arrangements, 'Cruel Machine' menaces and caresses the senses. Most tracks are spirited improvisations, recorded live and subsequently built up with additional instrumentation and supplemented with atmospheric field-recordings. [More]
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Satyrswitch is Jason Kesselring's acoustic project specializing in Folk Baroque and Cowboy Raga with touch of Wormwood thrown in for good measure. Jason is perhaps best known as a member of Skye Klad. Jason's folk style is heady stuff, recalling a meeting between Johnny Cash and Bert Jansch in the Appalachian Mountains. His skilled acoustic guitar work, dark-hued baritone vocals and cleaver mix of self-penned and traditional material make this an engrossing journey.
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