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Can: The Singles – album review
Can – The Singles (Mute Records / Spoon Records) CD | 3xLP | DL Out Now The Singles by Can is an indispensable and compelling career spanning compilation available on digital, CD and an amazing triple...
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The Staves: Barrow in Furness Public Library – live review
The Staves Barrow in Furness Public Library Wednesday 7 June I grew in Barrow in Furness, and as a bookish only child my local library was a second home, so it was an incredibly moving experience...
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Spear Of Destiny: Religion – album review
Spear Of Destiny – Religion Westworld CD/DL Out now The reissue of 1997 album by Kirk Brandon and Co. LTW’s Ian Canty hears a re-energised version of Spear Of Destiny 14 years into their career. By the...
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The Wedding Present: London, The Roundhouse
The Wedding Present The Roundhouse, London 10 June 2017 Louder Than War’s Naomi Dryden-Smith reports on The Wedding Present’s Roundhouse gig to celebrate thirty years of their debut and most iconic...
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Black Pudding: Wooden Butty -single review and exclusive video premiere
Single review Black Pudding – Wooden Butty (Loner Noise) CD/ DL out now I like the sound of Loner Noise ( a record label) Music for Weirdos by Weirdos. Rock is outsider music once again. We find the...
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Bent Knee: Land Animal – album review
Bent Knee: Land Animal Inside Out CD/DL/vinyl Released 23 June 2017 7/10 An attention-grabbing proposition from Inside Out, the usual home to all that’s worth listening to in progressive rock, who test...
View ArticleBENT – female fronted Aussie Post-punk
New 4-song EP from this Australian band. The label drops comparisons to the Raincoats and the Slits in their description, and I can definitely hear a lot of both of those bands in Bent’s sound. From...
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Cigarettes After Sex : album review : ‘brilliant album of melancholia pop...
Cigarettes After Sex ‘Cigarettes After Sex’ Partisan Records Album Review There is an ethereal calmness in the music of Cigarettes After Sex that permeates through every inch of their...
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The Radiophonic Workshop: Burials in Several Earths – LP Review
The Radiophonic Workshop LP CD Room 13 Out now 9/10 Louder than War have a listen to The Radiophonic Workshop’s brand new work Burials in Several Earths. To many, The Radiophonic Workshop need no...
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Passion Pusher: Aquarium – review
Passion Pusher – Aquarium Vinyl/DL Song, By Toad Out 16th June 2017 8/10 Louder than War’s Ioan Humphreys has a listen to more quirky lo-fi madness from Song, by Toad’s roster in the form of Passion...
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No Hot Ashes: Manchester, Sound Control – live review
No Hot Ashes Sound Control, Manchester 17 June 2017 It’s hot a steamy at Sound Control as Stockport’s No Hot Ashes play their biggest headlining gig to date, Nigel Carr reports back for Louder Than...
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Where Fires Are – interview
Just off a successful North American tour, Where Fires Are have just released a new video for their new single Die or Survive, which is off their new EP, One Four Six One. The video explodes with...
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Pamphlet: You’re a stranger – Track review
Pamphlet – You’re a stranger DL Out now Fast and frenetic is just one of the ways that Louder than War’s Ioan Humphreys can describe Pamphlet. I don’t know much about Pamphlet as they very politely...
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Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: War Machine OST – soundtrack review
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: War Machine OST (Invada Records/Lakeshore Records) LP / CD / DL DL available now. LP / CD release dates to be confirmed. 9/10 Since 2005’s The Proposition, Nick Cave and...
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Bat Sabbath: Wellington Club, Hull – live review
Bat Sabbath Wellington Club, Hull 12th June 2017 Written by Steve John 4 October, 2015 The whole tribute band thing can be a bit problematic. Whole festivals devoted to bands with pun version names of...
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Cheap Trick: We’re All Alright – album review
Cheap Trick: We’re All Alright Big Machine Records CD/DL/vinyl Available now 8/10 Cheap Trick are always going to be remembered for their pivotal At Budokan – the response in the far East earning them...
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The Dream Syndicate: Taster track for new album: 11 minutes of...
The Dream Syndicate are back: First taste of new album after a 29 year break: And it’s an epic 11 minutes of Krautrock-Americana and sprawling psych. The Dream Syndicate will release their fifth...
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Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul: The Academy, Manchester – live review
LITTLE STEVEN & THE DISCIPLES OF SOUL THE ACADEMY, MANCHESTER June 18 2017 Getting tired of living in a world that’s got no soul? Little Steven brought a huge helping of soul fused redemption to...
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The Secret Goldfish: Petal Split – album review
The Secret Goldfish Petal Split (Creeping Bent) LP/CD/DL Available now 8/10 Petal Split, the third album from Glasgow-based indie-pop classicists The Secret Goldfish, actually sounds more like an...
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Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel: Heaven, London – live review
Amanda Palmer Heaven, London 13 June 2017 Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel recently brought their creepy cabaret freak show to London’s Heaven nightclub. Paul Grace reported for Louder Than War and...
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