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Twenty years of reflection. Twenty years of introspection. Twenty years of processing. As Yann Novak's Meadowsweet hits its twenty-year anniversary, its new remaster marks a more bittersweet commemoration than the surface celebration would suggest . The original album was recorded in the wake of Yann's mother's passing, a way for him to work through his loss, finding solace in his art and the exploration of sound, meaning, and self. Meadowsweet (Redux) not only marks twenty years of Yann's work, but also of the loss he suffered, making this remaster even more poignant and moving.
15 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
Music, like film, is a durational art. In the simplest of terms, something begins, and then it ends, regardless of how formally complex a given work is: this is Inescapable. Plastic arts like painting or sculpture are bound by other limitations. In music, or sound more broadly, what happens between start and stop often works to subvert the unavoidable temporal constraints circumscribed by the act of listening, as Leonie Strecker has done on Chroma: a patchwork of minimalist electronics, abstract but highly textured
First released in the late 1980’s, In Slaughter Of Natives' self-titled debut presented a dense & layered album which brought together elements of death industrial, martial classical, blacked EBM, dark ambience, and general flair for detailed/atmospheric production.
Sana / Sana: Let Me Hear — Sana / Sana: Let Me Hear ( Blu Ray boxset)
13 Apr 2026The Residents — Animal Lover- Evolution Edition
13 Apr 2026Godstick — VOiD
13 Apr 2026Cronos — Dancing Into The Fire
10 Apr 2026Raté — Chut
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.
Originally released in the early 90’s, Thunder Perfect Mind was very much a yin/ yang album from long-running sonic surrealist Nurse With Wound. It features just two tracks- one focused on in detailed industrial sounds, and the other on dark ambience with later forays into rhythmic fare. Here on Austria’s Infinite Fog Productions is a two-CD reissue of the album- the first disc takes in the original album, and on the second disc is a 2016 compilation album- Various Industrial Adhesives And Lubricants
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