Pink Wool — Matriarch

Matriarch serves up two short, extremely searing shots of walled noise from this Oregon-based project. Each track hits dead on the ten-minute mark, and each is as intense as the other.

Olion — The Internet Hate Machine Marches On, Relentless and Ever Vigilant

Here’s a recent release from Polish wall noise project Olion, which shows a harsher/ more bleakly choppy side to their sound. The single track comes in at dead on the thirty-minute mark. This is a self-released digital affair.

Won’t You Ragnarok with Me?

A Julian Cope Primmer

Erupting into the mainstream on February 19th 1981, The Teardrop Explodes’ debut ‘Top of the Pops’ television performance featuring their brassy, bouncy hit ‘Reward’ is to this day probably the moment from which most people recall Julian Cope. If your image of Julian remains that of an earnest young budding pop star sporting a fleece-collared flying jacket and a shaggy bowlcut of shoulder-length tresses, if you failed to maintain pace with his entry into the cosmos, if you dismissively describe him (as I’ve seen thereabouts) as “a Smash Hits pin-up”, you have one hell of a lot of catching up to do. Musique Machine have tasked me with leading their readers through the psychedelic jungle and beyond, here, and I have to say that Julian probably merits the ‘beginners’ guide to’ / ‘recommended records’ treatment more than just about any other artist in the music sphere, at least in terms of how public perception and the ‘reality’ (if such a word is appropriate in this extreme case) have a near-unbridgeable gulf.

A True Progressive Band

Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere Interview

Early this year, the band released their most recent album Theta 7, on Discus Music-which is sadly to be their last. Band leader Martin Archer kindly agreed to give us an email interview, discussing the project's history & why they’ve decided to call it a day.