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If you’re into sharp parodies, Oonagh Haines’ debut release, Not Not Pretending, might be right up your alley. Do you drive a Ford Focus? Are you liable to torch said Ford by creating a candlelight ambience inside it to impress a love interest? These are just some of the comical scenes sketched over minimalist beats and heavily-pitched vocals, in the Queen’s— what else! Despite the parasitic nature of Haines’ stylings, some of the rudimentary beatmaking is actually pretty listenable, if that were the aim here, though I suspect it’s not.
25 Apr 2026
King Futile is the new project from Scotland-based Lea Cummings( Kylie Minoise, Official Music Team, etc), and it’s a big departure from his normal noise or retro sample & electronica sound. It's lo-fi acoustic music, with an outsider feel, and often quite tongue-in-cheek/ sharply sarcastic tone to the lyrics. So far, the project has put out three albums- Casual Misery, How To Have Fun, and Zen As Fuck. I tracked down Lea for an email interview.
7 Apr 2026
Naturstudium III is an eleven-track journey in the jagged, unpredictable, and at times uneasy world of Baschet sound sculpture, which utilises elements of metal, glass, and wood- oscillating between instrument and architecture. This is a CD release on Austria’s Kairos Music
RE:Wilding collects together five works from German-based Chinese modern composer Ying Wang. Her work often blends and blurs both formal instrumentation and electronics, as well as different genres, to an often dizzying effect.
The Angel Guts box — The Angel Guts box(Blu Ray boxset)
23 Apr 2026The Nightcomers — The Nightcomers( UHD/ Blu Ray)
22 Apr 2026Desolus — Dwellers of the Twilight Void
22 Apr 2026The Beast and the Vixens — The Beast and the Vixens ( Blu Ray)
22 Apr 2026
Cliff Twemlow On Severin
One of last year’s real big surprises in the world of Blu-ray box sets was Bloody Legend: The Complete Twemlow Collection, as it was a wholly entertaining, fascinating, and at times heart-warming set. The Severin released boxset brought together the work of one of the UK’s unlikeliest movie moguls- Cliff Twemlow, a Mancunian bouncer/ body builder, who went on to write/star in/produce a series of low-budget/ largely SOV films in the early 80s to early 90s- these moved between action, thriller, sci-fi, and horror. His most notable/notorious film was 1983’s G.B.H., which landed on the video nasty list, though he was connected to other ten feature films, many of which got their first real full/proper release on the boxset. Opening up the set was the excellent 2023 documentary Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow, which really pulls you into the set. I caught up with Severn’s David Gregory and Jake West, director of Mancunian Man, to discuss the boxset and all things cliff.
The Fall
MES( Mark E Smith- The Falls main creator) possessed the ability to cram phrases into impossible spaces - “I’m hunting and I’m trying to find” delivered as “hut’na tryna find”; the eight-syllable “mere pseud mag editor’s father” hastily squeezed into a manipulation of time and space, heralded by the prior line “twice each at least”, the latter naturally repeated thrice.
Scream Therapy (2023) is a horror comedy written and directed by Cassie Keet in her feature directorial debut, produced by The Knights Young Productions and Treehouse Productions. Five friends, each carrying their own baggage, head to the desert for a weekend of restorative scream therapy after Avery's devastating breakup. What starts as therapeutic bonding quickly spirals into chaos when they cross paths with a misogynistic cult on a pressing human sacrifice deadline.
The Crude — Black Square
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