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Heinali and Matt Finney ‘Ain’t No Night’ CD 2011

27th September 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Ain't No Night, Ambient, Atmospheric, CD, Drone, Experimental, Heinali, Heinali & Matt Finney, Matt Finney, Paradigms Recordings, Paul Robertson, Psychedelic, Review

Hot on the heels of their last collaboration, Conjoined, Ukrainian sound artist Heinali and American poet/spoken word artist Matt Finney

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Grumbling Fur ‘Furrier’ CD/LP 2011

22nd September 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Alexander Tucker, Atmospheric, Aurora Borealis, CD, Circle, Daniel O’Sullivan, Drone, Experimental, Furrier, Grumbling Fur, Guapo, LP, Paul Robertson, Psychedelic, Review

Ethereal, nebulous, occasionally Krauty and deeply witchy, Furrier is the much anticipated debut album from the collective minds of Ex-Guapo

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Throne Of The Void In The Hundred Petal Lotus ‘Dark Geometer’ CD/DL 2011

13th September 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Atmospheric, CD, Download, Drone, Experimental, Paul Robertson, Queen Elephantine, Review, Shoegaze, Throne Of The Void In The Hundred Petal Lotus

Well. I’ve had this sitting in my metaphorical review pile for a good while and, despite having listened to it

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Heinali and Matt Finney ‘Conjoined’ CD 2010

6th September 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2010, Ambient, Atmospheric, CD, Drone, Experimental, Heinali, Heinali and Matt Finney, Matt Finney, Paradigms Recordings, Paul Robertson, Psychedelic, Review

‘Conjoined’ is the auditory result of the meeting of minds betwixt Ukrainian composer Heinali and American poet Matt Finney, and

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Aseethe ‘Reverent Burden’ LP 2011

30th August 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Aseethe, Doom, Drone, Floating Cave Records, Heavy, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, Sludge

Aseethe are huge. Colossally, sky-scrapingly huge. Monstrously huge. HUGE. Doom so monolithic that it could have been hewn from pre-historic

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Pontiak ‘Comecrudos’ 12″ 2011

24th August 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 12", 2011, Atmospheric, Comecrudos, Drone, Paul Robertson, Pontiak, Post-Rock, Review, Thrill Jockey Records

Pontiak are the brothers Carney – Lain, Van & Jennings Carney, to be exact, from Virginia – and ‘Comecrudos’ is

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Locrian ‘Dort Ist Der Weg / Frozen In Ash’ 7″ 2011

10th August 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, 7", Avant-Garde, Drone, Experimental, Flingco Sound System, Locrian, Paul Robertson, Popol Vuh, Review

Ever the wilful perverts of sound, on this seven inch single from Flingco Sound – the label behind the ‘Black

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Pombagira ‘Iconoclast Dream’ LP 2011

25th July 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Black Axis Records, Doom, Drone, Heavy, Iconoclast Dream, LP, Mordgrimm Records, Paul Robertson, Pombagira, Review, Sludge

The haughty, gaunt face of Baron Samedi glares down at the zombie-like mass emerging from the gates of le cimetière,

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Fragment ‘Home’ CD 2011

27th June 20113rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2011, CD, Drone, Fragment, Home, OPN Records, Review, Shoegaze, Tom McKibbin

Fragment is the kind of artist that music journalists hate to have to review because with almost no information available

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Locrian / Horseback ‘New Dominions’ 12″ 2011

6th June 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 12", 2011, Album, Avant-Garde, Drone, Experimental, Horseback, Jenks Miller, Locrian, LP, New Dominions, Paul Robertson, Review, Split, Split 12", Utech Records

I’m always personally excited to hear anything new from Locrian OR Horseback, so you can imagine how much I was

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Terminal Sound System ‘Heavy Weather’ CD/LP 2011

26th May 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Ambient, CD, Dark, Denovali Records, Doom, Drone, HALO, Heavy Weather, LP, Noise, Paul Robertson, Review, Skye Klein, Terminal Sound System

If I had to use only two words to describe Terminal Sound System, those words would be ‘vast’ and ‘filmic’…although

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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May
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