93% 40 Watt Sun ‘Wider than the Sky’ Joe Turner·December 8, 2016Patrick Walker has always struggled against genre-labels. After the release of 40 Watt Sun‘s previous album ‘The Inside...Albums·0 Comments·0
95% Oathbreaker ‘Rheia’ Joe Turner·December 8, 2016Black metal fans are a notoriously tetchy bunch, often feeling the need to defend their chosen genre from...Albums·0 Comments·0
94% Danny Brown ‘Atrocity Exhbition’ Joe Turner·October 7, 2016Many listeners will be drawn to Danny Brown’s ‘Atrocity Exhibition’ by the formidable posse cut ‘Really Doe’, featuring...Albums·1 Comment·0
The Glazzies ‘Kill Me Kindly’ – ALBUM REVIEW Joe Turner·September 23, 2016If The Glazzies had existed twenty years ago, at the peak of the music industry’s hunt for the...Albums·0 Comments·0
Doe ‘Some Things Last Longer Than You’ – ALBUM REVIEW Joe Turner·September 15, 2016It’s tempting to make lazy superficial comparisons between Doe and Sleater-Kinney They emulate the latter’s two-guitar/no bass line-up,...Albums·0 Comments·0
Descendents ‘Hypercaffium Spazzinate’ – ALBUM REVIEW Joe Turner·July 29, 2016Since the release of their essential debut album ‘Milo Goes to College’ (1982), Descendents’ bespectacled frontman Milo Aukerman...Albums·0 Comments·0
Bongripper / Dragged into Sunlight / Ramesses + others – The Fleece, Bristol (4th June 2016) LIVE REVIEW Joe Turner·June 13, 2016It’s a sunny Saturday in Bristol, not that you’d realise from the horde of pasty-faced, black clad Metal...Gigs·0 Comments·0
Temples Festival 2016 is cancelled Joe Turner·May 31, 2016The annual Bristol-based Temples Festival cancelled due to “a series of bad business decisions” Just a few days before...News·0 Comments·0
UNFORGOTTEN: Slint ‘Spiderland’ (1991) Joe Turner·May 16, 201625 years after it’s release GIGsoup revisit Slint’s ‘Spiderland’ An aura of mystique still hangs around ‘Spiderland’ and...Unforgotten·0 Comments·0
UNFORGOTTEN : EyeHateGod ‘Dopesick’ (1996) Joe Turner·April 15, 2016The album begins and ends with the sounds of shattering glass and bloodcurdling screams. In between is some...Music·0 Comments·0