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The Brainiac 5: Journey To X – album review
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Pain Of Salvation: In The Passing Light Of Day – album review
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The Godfathers: A Big Bad Beautiful Noise – Album Review
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Armoured Flu Unit – EP review
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Alana Bondi / Alana Richards – RIP
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Logan Callahan: All My Mistakes – Album review
Logan Callahan – All my mistakes Self released Out now 7/10 Louder than War have a listen to a latest New York State troubadour. Logan Callahan is a singer songwriter from Hudson Valley of New York...
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Elmer and the Ceramic Trees: Maps of Outer Space – Album review
Elmer and the Ceramic Trees Maps of Outer Space DL Out now Louder than War’s Ioan Humphreys falls in love with a new 80’s tinged band despite their name… Elmer and the Ceramic Trees is the alias of...
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One-way Song: Dr Spraza Lies – Track review
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Deep in the Goldfish Bowl – Stereophonics’‘Word Gets Around’ Turns Twenty
Growing up in a small town has as many negatives as it does positives – strip away the idyllic Kinksian cavalcade of bowling greens and ivy-proofed pubs and you’re left with a more accurate truth, one...
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Mad King Ludwig & the Mojo Co. : Freak Bop Stew EP reviewed -‘rare, exciting...
EP review Mad King Ludwig & the Mojo Co. ‘Freak Bop Stew’ EP (self-released on Bandcamp) CD / DL Released 13 January 2017 Debut EP by lunatic royal and his freaky crew reviewed by Lady-in-Waiting...
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A Winged Victory For The Sullen: Iris – soundtrack review
A Winged Victory For The Sullen: Iris (Erased Tapes) LP/CD/DL Available 14/01/2017 7.5/10 Modern classical duo return with soundtrack to French Thriller. Simon Tucker finds a band finding new nuances...
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Charivari / Iceman Furniss Quintet: Purge / 18.07.16 – single review
Charivari / Iceman Furniss Quintet: Purge / 18.07.16 (Noctone) 12″ Available now! 8/10 The debut release by the feldgling Noctone label (which like a lot of the best things is based in Bristol) is a...
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Andy Blade interviewed : “It’s the world that’s fucked up, not me. I am...
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Dumb Poets – EP review “English Americana from the South Coast”
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Ludus – Nue au Soleil – Album Review
Ludus – Nue au Soleil LTM 2CD/DL Released 20th January 2017 Career anthology of extraordinary Manchester Post Punk band Ludus, including four tracks from a rare Peel Session and a 1982 live set at the...
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Aurelio: Darandi – album review
Aurelio – Darandi (Real World Records) CD / DL 20 January 2017 7 / 10 Guitar based Garifunan music interpreter releases career spanning collection. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates reviews. The...
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O’Hooley & Tidow: Alexandra Beer House, Halifax – live review
O’HOOLEY & TIDOW ALEXANDRA BEER HOUSE, HALIFAX 11th January 2017 O’Hooley & Tidow. Infamous purveyors of quality music and enthusiasts for real ale. An intimate candlelit gig upstairs in a...
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The “Dutch underground” RIP?
Pray tell; what is the “Dutch underground”? Even after a good 15 years watching and working with alternative bands in this country, I find it an impossible term to define. And like that evasive...
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Black Mamba Fever: Feeling The Strain – Single Review
Black Mamba Fever: Feeling The Strain (Eating People Is Wrong) Vinyl Out Now Conjuring up visions of the sweats and salivation caused by the world’s fastest snake gives you something to live up to. If...
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Aseethe: Hopes of Failure – Album review
Aseethe – Hopes of Failure (Thrill Jockey) Out 24th February 2017 8/10 Louder than War’s Ioan Humphreys gets pummelled into submission by some heavy as shit metal. February 24th 2017 sees the...
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