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Following up 2021's Additive Inverse, Jim O'Rourke & Jos Smolders come together again for more sonic experimentation and procedural processing with Albumin. Their second on Moving Furniture, these two tracks showcase Jim's Kyma System generating the basis of the album before both he and Jos altered them separately in their studios. The result is a shimmering and ambulating collection of textures that flows, drifts, and pulls the listener into its midst to carry them forth through the duo's process. Working very well together, the pair combine sounds to form an enigmatic sonic stew, unpredictable and enjoyable, collected and concentrated.
3 Jun 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
From the early 60’s Los Golfos (The Delinquents) focuses on a youth gang in Madrid. As the film progresses, their crimes get steadily worse, though one of their number has possibly found a way out of a life of crime, becoming a matador. It’s a neo-realist film, shot in a gritty documentary style, really giving one a feel of the city & its suburbs. Though the film does have a rather unpleasant tone, with moments of animal cruelty. Here from Radiance Films is a Blu-ray release of the film, taking in a 4k scan, and a selection of old and new extras.
From the early 1980’s, Special Effects was Larry Cohen's (It’s Alive Trilogy, The Stuff, God Told Me To Do It) take on the then-popular erotic thriller genre, with a twist of snuff-focused horror. It regards a blonde-haired Dolly Parton look-alike coming to NYC to make it in acting, who ends up dead, and a down-on-his-luck director played by Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio, Uncut Gems) decides to make a film with the lead suspect in the case. Here from Transmission, Radiance sub-label is a Blu-ray release of the film, featuring a new & archive commentary track, and two new interviews.
Vacant Align — 51926
29 May 2026RDKPL — XXX
29 May 2026Tribe — Tribe(VOD)
29 May 202613 Souls — 13 souls( VOD)
29 May 2026Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box Vol 6 — Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box Vol 6( DVD boxset)
27 May 2026Fungicide — Fungicide( Blu Ray)
27 May 2026The Shroud — The Shroud (Blu Ray)
27 May 2026Defiled — Altered State
27 May 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.
Crude ‘n’ Hope-corroding Walled Noise
Back in 2024, I got my first taste of Absurd Reality, and I was so impressed by how crude and nasty its take on walled noise was. Behind the project is South Carolina-based Krys Marshall, who also runs the Filthy Sounds Recording label. He’s since gone on to form No Fun HNW, which pushes the levels of nasty crudeness even more. Krys kindly agreed to an email interview.
Creepy Images Books
Of all the cult/exploitation genres, Giallo stands as one of the more visually & art-based- be it with the grand/ dramatic location, choreographed murder scenes, or great poster art. The focus of this interview is on the last of these three- looking at the two classy/ glossy full colour Giallo Posters books put out by Germany's Creepy Images. Below is an interview with Thorsten Benzel, one of the key minds behind the books. To date, there are two volumes, with a third coming next year.
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