NINtrospective Part 2: Nine Inch Nails' Death Disco
"Synths? Synths are rubbish. All the good NIN songs have guitars in them". Just how wrong could Kevin Eddy be?»
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Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
Fantasy Empire is a riot of a record, echoing the ebb and flow of a live set like nothing I’ve heard before.»
White Fang - Full Time Freaks
Fuzzed-out, blissed-up, downtuned, lost on the Pacific Highway with a bag of weed and a homemade bong. Sand dunes on the right of me, mountains on the left, windows down, high on life. Feeling good now»
Bad Religion - Christmas Songs
There ain’t a lot of depth to this album - it’s 20 minutes long, it’s Bad Religion and they’re playing supercharged Christmas carols. But it's great fun.»
NINtrospective Part 1: Nine Inch Nails' Sex & Violence
He's Mr Self Destruct with a head like a hole - yes, Trent Reznor knows how to hate with a guitar in his hand. Kev Eddy tours the industrial side of Nine Inch Nails' discography in the first part of this series.»
Splendour in the Grass Festival, Australia - The DiS Awards
The musical highlights and lowlights of Australia's largest and longest-running music festival, Splendour in the Grass. In award form, of course»
Dead in the Dirt - The Blind Hole
It's the musical equivalent of smacking down 15 espresso shots in a row.»
Splendour in the Grass: The DiS preview
This weekend, around 30,000 Australians (OK, some of them will be people from other nationalities who've decamped to this side of world) will make a pilgrimage to one of the homes of alternative culture in this country. »
Surfer Blood - Pythons
Pythons is a fuller, more mature and honest album than its precursor. »
Queens of The Stone Age - Like Clockwork
It's an album to wallow in, that worms its way into your fibres. »
Iggy & The Stooges - Ready to Die
Ready to Die isn't the missing sequel to Raw Power, but it is a masterclass in writing a big, dumb punk album with occasional touches of emotional depth. »
Dethscalator - Racial Golf Course No Bitches
Dethscalator's descent into deconstructed noise is too quick, too eager.»
Hey Colossus - Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo
Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo is Hey Colossus taking their past, screwing up the rule book and cackling like lunatics. »
Tomahawk - Oddfellows
Oddfellows clearly signals a return to the style and spirit of Tomahawk's self-titled debut, and to some extent the highlights of Faith No More's latter days. It strikes the prefect balance: accessible, yet with enough idiosyncrasy to make it more than just a formulaic retread of past glories. »
Chris Lawhorn - Fugazi Edits
In lieu of new Fugazi material, this is certainly a more-than-adequate substitute.»
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Lost Songs
Lost Songs is like watching a well-crafted action film: you might know what's coming but you still marvel at the stunts, admire the panache with which it carries itself, and enjoy it for the passion that carries every scene.»
Race Horses - Furniture
This album is crammed full of influences, and wears them proudly on its rolled-up suit jacket sleeve.»
Poison Idea - The Fatal Erection Years
The Fatal Erection Years is a fascinating retrospective into the development of a hugely influential band's sound. Over and above that, it's a clean and pure blast of hardcore punk that sounds like it could have been written yesterday.»
New Bleeders - New Bleeders
I have heard the future of punk, and it is Belgian.»
Run Walk - (Health)
This album is a statement, a signoff with intent. »
Future Of The Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
This is a misanthropic, outraged and often hilarious skewering of the early twenty-first century and its fascinations... The Mclusky/Future of the Left box of musical tricks is liberally mined here, though. You won't be disappointed if you're looking for ADHD punk in the style of 'Lightsaber Cocksucking Blues' ('Sheena is a T-Shirt Salesman') fun and games with keyboards ('Cosmo's Ladder' and 'A Guide to Men')... Thank you, Future of the Left – you've saved rock music. Now to make it pay.»
The Wedding Present - Valentina
Don't expect vast departures from the formula on Valentina; The Wedding Present know their niche. But how superbly they fill it.»
Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind) The Crafty Ape
This is a massive, sprawling piece of work - and that's its blessing and its curse. »
Drowned Down Under #3: Sydney in summertime
January in Britain. Short days, no money, cold nights, and it's inevitably when the hyper-advanced combination boiler packs in, leaving you with no heating for a week while the engineer waits for an unspecified 'part'. January sucks. Not in Australia, »
Will Haven - Voir Dire
Voir Dire might not be the masterwork that El Diablo was but it certainly comes a close second. Welcome back, Will Haven.»
Årabrot - Solar Anus
This album is ferocious, funny, colossal, guttural, hopeful and terrifying. »
Drowned Down Under #2
There are many awesome things about Sydney: The Harbour Bridge. The Opera House. The beaches. One lesser-known treasure of the city, however, is local indies radio station FBi Radio. Resoundingly independent, its centrepiece event is Changing Lanes: an allday event featuring more than 50 bands and DJs over 10 hours. IN its second year, the festival takes place on Saturday September 17th, in partnership with one of Sydney's best known venues, the Gaelic - and it features some of the most exciting bands from Sydney and elsewhere in Australia at the moment. Here's my pick of the bunch. »
The Icarus Line - Wildlife
It doesn't capture that molten energy that the Icarus Line have been capable of in the past.»
Drowned Down Under #1
Kev Eddy moved to Australia a year ago to discover a land that, surprisingly, isn't all AC/DC cover bands and Jet. Here's the first in a series of columns investigating the Australian music scene. Ah, festival season. Nothing quite brings home a sense »
O'Death - Outside
O’Death’s most accomplished work to date, and a fine piece of work at that.»