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Author: Caspian Yurisich

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Sloath ‘Deep Mountain’ LP/DD 2014

7th January 20153rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Caspian Yurisich, Deep Mountain, Digital, Heavy, LP, Psych, Review, Riot Season, Sloath

Stoner metal is a genre thrown around a bit freely, in my opinion – if a band is really tight,

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Latitude Egress ‘To Take Up the Cross’ CD/DD 2014

14th December 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Art Of Propaganda, Black Metal, Caspian Yurisich, CD, Digital, Doom, Latitude Egress, Metal, Review, To Take Up the Cross

Like a woman making a dress entirely out of used paper plates, like a particularly passionate man constructing a car

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Lotus Thief ‘Rervm’ CD/LP/DD 2014

3rd December 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Ambient, Caspian Yurisich, CD, Digital, Experimental, Lotus Thief, LP, Post-Rock, Rervm, Review, Svart Records

I don’t really have a nice introductory paragraph so let’s just state this straight out: Lotus Thief shouldn’t work but

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Album & EP Reviews U 

Usnea ‘Random Cosmic Violence’ CD/LP/CS/DD 2014

11th November 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Caspian Yurisich, Cassette, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, LP, Random Cosmic Violence, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge, Usnea

In the same vein of perhaps Ocean’s Here Where Nothing Grows, Torture Circle, Aldebaran, Buried At Sea, early, less-bad Moss

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Album & EP Reviews W 

White Hills ‘Glitter Glamour Atrocity’ CD/LP/DD Reissue 2014

10th October 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Caspian Yurisich, CD, Digital, Glitter Glamour Atrocity, Kraut, LP, Psych, Reissue, Review, Space Rock, Thrill Jockey Records, White Hills

Gotta admit, when the press release about White Hills came out with a bunch of talking about the evils of

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Conan @ Armageddoom II 2014
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Conan / Yanomamo & More – Armageddoom II @ Rosemount Hotel, Perth 05/09/2014

29th September 201413th September 2019 Caspian Yurisich Armageddoom II, Bayou, Caspian Yurisich, Chainsaw Hooker, Conan, Live Review, Perth, Rosemount Hotel, The Devil Rides Out, Yanomamö

A long festival, especially after you’ve gotten up at 4am, worked all day etc. is not always the best of

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3rd Ear Experience ‘Incredible Good Fortune’ CD/DD 2014

6th September 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, 3rd Ear Experience, Caspian Yurisich, CD, Digital, Experimental, Incredible Good Fortune, Prog Rock, Review, Self Released, Space Rock

We’ve all had those glory moments with music – it’s why you’re reading this, it’s why I’m writing this –

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Bild ‘OOBE’ DD 2014

26th August 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Bild, Caspian Yurisich, Digital, Experimental, Heavy, Industrial, OOBE, Review, Self Released

New Swans with a Cult of Luna-ish production and feel to it. That’s the review, let’s all go home! Honestly,

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Kikagaku Moyo ‘Mammatus Clouds’ LP/DD 2014

19th August 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Ambient, Cardinal Fuzz Records, Caspian Yurisich, Digital, Experimental, Kikagaku Moyo, Kraut, LP, Mammatus Clouds, Mammutus Clouds, Psych, Review

For me, Japanese psychedelia is one of those genres where my taste is, admittedly, a little undiscerning- if it’s competent

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Deep Space Destructors ‘III’ CD/DD 2014

13th August 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Caspian Yurisich, CD, Deep Space Destructors, Digital, III, Prog Rock, Psychedelic, Review, Self Released, Space Rock

I’m forever looking for new space rock in the hope it sounds like Ozric Tentacles… But apparently I’m cursed to

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Dismal – S/T – CDEP/DD 2014

5th August 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Caspian Yurisich, CD, Digital, Dismal, Doom, Heavy, Review, Self Released, Self Titled, Sludge

A lot of the promos- perhaps not the majority, but certainly the main kind of music- that get offered up

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