Blog: Rottenmeats

Made up of one half Hunter Gracchus the other Chora , The Akke Phallus Duo are certainly no strangers to stoking up the noise, and I'm glad to report neither show any signs of mellowing any time soon, as this debut release testifies. Terroir Pissoir brims with those self same wild fidelities and bizarrely refreshing dynamics that I've come to love from this duo's other incarnations... each track here being an inventive springboard of raw and colliding textures, a sound lab of conflict, adhesion and impossible futures... a truly exciting [...]

This looks to be an amazing evening... Tuesday, 14 February 2012 FONDNESS @ Wolstenholme Creative Space Wolstenholme square. Liverpool. 7:30pm onward Donations (£2/3 not Free!) with special guests; Vialka from deepest France, via everywhere and nowhere. They are a devilishly high-spirited guitar/drums duo who tour hard and fast across the world. Their music skips joyfully across borders, channeling desert blues, Chinese folk songs, scatter rock and European gypsy song dynamics in a whirlwind of dervish energy. Their endless [...]

A great slice of computer tennis pop from Nijmegen's finest...

... and more eye poppin' kandi from Velveeta Heartbreak

The lunar side, recorded in a dilapidated barn in France, is guitar based, folkish... poetry caught in a spider's web of weird sonic inflections… these cracks in the paintwork truly shine, grasp at you hypnotically as the words eradiate their meanings. A sense of purpose and tarnished beauty embalmed in the delivery, akin to that of King Crimson or a pre 'Real World' Peter Gabriel . The accompanying instrumentation often gentle or deliberately grating… a psych drenched and evocative build up that warms you up for the sonic sprawl of the flip side. [...]

Friday 27th January - The Cube, Bristol A punky Fall / Wire fusion started the show... that bass, a thirsty animal grabbing at the heels of the angled guitar and scooping drums... aggressive sweeps and barking vocals... spears of sonic dissidence ripping through - a band whose sound aptly describes their name - The Falling Stacks ... great stuff... MXLX was next , another guise for Matt W's [...]

Ultra Bonbon's Tape Hiss Abyss has just been re-issued by Lava Church . If you need convincing grab an eyeful here .

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Cruise Family have broken out of tape culture to go all vinyl on us... We're In Heaven it's called, released on Not Not Fun ... i'm defo loving that retro 'Tron/Hitchhiker's guide' vibe to the arts, but to give you a flavour of what to expect soundwise, this is a snippet from Stefan's last release Nachtbote ...

...seriously wonky in all the right ways

Marking the second project in a series of experimental collaborations from Front and Follow . This is like a Exquisite Corpse of sound where various artists were invited to submit audio clips to a central pot which in turn was randomly re-distributed 'lucky dip' style for each subsequent group to dabble with as they saw fit... The results promise to stretch across 2012 and beyond, encompassing known label mates like Doomed Bird and the amazing Sone Institute as well as exciting additions like Kemper Norton and Isnaj Dui . [...]

wwrrssddrrwwss from the cryin' skull

This is saintly dust , wheezen sax and dripping tap drummage... ambulance ambience on the exhaust fumes of a whirring mind... absolute love and respect

Teen-beat are re-releasing Unrest's PERFECT TEETH , no cheap jewel case shenanigans mind, but a beautifully boxed collection of six coloured 7 inch records with extra tracks. Hats off to you Marky Robinson … it looks so lush… if I wasn't so strapped I'd grab one off you… Really loved this album back in the day, shit that was a long time ago must be 17 years, seems like yesterday... those poppy hooks and that jangled sizzle, grabbing the focus, simple songs full of mileage. Now Imperial FFRR will always [...]

Bleakhaus?

Side one demonstrates some masterful guitar playing, deft, descriptivewith plenty of colour between frets, spurring off on otherworldlytwilights… Halfway through, this captivating narrative takes up a moreoccultist tone with creeping circles prowling a low lit amplitude…Gliding on some lovely glassy eyed synthetics, the guitar graduallyletting the optimism in, the tone warming…. then finally drifting outon doubled layers, the crystallised strings caught in the falling ofleaves. In complete contrast, side two is a aquatic-lined burbling ofsubmerged sounds … A sweeping bubble wand of multicoloured oceanics.A humming flange of dolphin rasp providing the bassline, as keystrokesgive out the definition [...]

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This is an intense blast of Mariachi punk fusion, with its Miles Davis trumpet sputters and elastically wedged guitars… I haven't heard this much energy since the Dog Faced Hermans back in 9O's… That Stig Noise brass section is just superb here, holds the mayhem together in tasty derailment… This is a real 'lay back and enjoy the ride' release, full of crazy angles and garbled trashcan vox. There's a slight detour into cruel, tonal abuse on Family Chainsaw but the rest of the tracks are content, dishing out the serotonin with zing grin [...]

Loving that home recorded aesthetic . Nice blasts of room atmospheres, tape static and a slight tunnelling in fidelity give this release a gritty authenticity that studio albums often shamefully polish away… The opener, Run grabs you instantly, like some forgotten psych gem with its meaty bass proposition and incredible vocals… a strong authoritative voice akin to Catherine Ribeiro . A folksy saturation to which Jefferson A's magical ' White Rabbit ' sort of slips into comparison rather seamlessly… The fun continues on the next track, the vocals going all [...]