Review: Pinegrove return with 11:11
Pinegrove goes political and keeps the tunes coming. New Jersey’s alt-country starlets Pinegrove are back with their fifth full-length release 11:11. Fans have been talking about 11:11 as a ‘back…
Problematising martyrdom of NHS workers
CW: anti-Blackness Gwendolyn Brooks’ marvellous poem Negro Hero is a dramatic monologue for Doris ‘Dorie’ Miller, a Black American sailor honoured ‘for distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard…
Poem of the Week: manifesting lockdown frustrations in Simon Armitage’s 1997 ‘The Mariner’s Compass’
Simon Armitage’s 1997 poem “The Mariner’s Compass” begins with something many of us are now agonisingly familiar with – ‘living alone’ – and ends the same way many of our…
Touché Amoré meet high standards with ‘Lament’
In a recent interview, Touché Amoré frontman Jeremy Bolm commented on his producer’s willingness to front the costs for the band’s most extensive recording process ever, on their fifth album,…
Poem of the Week: Geoffrey Hill’s ‘The Guardians’
Dealing with generational conflict has never been easy, but I also don’t think it’s ever been this hard; even before the emergence of a virus which aggressively discriminates on age,…
Pinegrove mark their return with ‘Marigold’
Content warning: mention of abuse Three stars. New Jersey alt-country outfit Pinegrove have returned with their first release written after the year-long hiatus self-imposed on the band after an ‘implicitly…
‘Sea of Worry’ is not Have A Nice Life’s best
Connecticut-based experimental two-piece Have a Nice Life have never been afraid of innovation. Their reverb-drenched drone and gothic rock sound covers so much space that it often feels easier to…
Sunn o))) return with titanic ‘Pyroclasts’
If you haven’t heard of Sunn 0))) (pronounced ‘Sun’), picture a self proclaimed ‘guitar band’ whose music sits in the liminal spaces at the edge of music itself. For 20…
