Nothing: The Great Dismal

Ezekiel RodofiliMay 12, 2022

The Great Dismal starts with "A Fabricated Life", a fairly simple, straightforward song with a sense of bitter reflection. It doesn't do anything drastic and ke...

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toe: DOKU-EN-KAI

Ezekiel RodofiliApril 7, 2022

A good few years into their existence and toe still sound great, especially in a live setting. Featuring many songs from their catalogue, DOKU-EN-KAI captures a...

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Born Ruffians: PULP

Ezekiel RodofiliFebruary 1, 2022

PULP is, as far as my understanding goes, a collection of B-sides that Born Ruffians consider an album that concludes a trilogy involving JUICE and SQUEEZE. ...

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Born Ruffians: SQUEEZE

Ezekiel RodofiliFebruary 1, 2022

SQUEEZE does this sort of ominous fade in on "Sentimental Saddle". Then it switches to something that sounds jangly and messy, and is all the better for it. The...

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Born Ruffians: JUICE

Ezekiel RodofiliNovember 8, 2021

Born Ruffians have been around for a while and so on and so forth. Anyway, last year they put out JUICE, the first in a trilogy of albums that are about... some...

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SUMAC: May You Be Held

Ezekiel RodofiliNovember 3, 2021

May You Be Held commences with a crawl. A low, deep and pressured crawl. In a way it's almost meditative and deconstructed, and perhaps that's the point of "A P...

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Callback: nenem: Deep Shape Blue

Ezekiel RodofiliOctober 9, 2021

The first nenem song I heard was "Oar". It was on Sunday whilst I was going through a playlist of math rock someone had put together. I'd been skimming throu...

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Karmel Jäger: Your Love

Ezekiel RodofiliOctober 4, 2021

Karmel Jäger's Your Love is the (currently) latest release from Karmel Jäger, and it features the song "Your Love". It also features three remixes of "Nowhere T...

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Mo•Louie: Body

Ezekiel RodofiliOctober 4, 2021

Mo•Louie makes music under the name Mo•Louie. Under the name of Mo•Louie, Mo•Louie has released "body", a song that doesn't spend much time being indirect about...

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A Conversation with b l u e s c r e e n

Ezekiel RodofiliSeptember 28, 2021

I had been meaning to interview Tyler, aka b l u e s c r e e n for a few months. Tyler co-runs Sunset Grid with ΔCID.rar, runs GumShoe and also puts out Death ...

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