Primavera Porto: the somewhat delayed DiS review
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Articles
Corpsey has written the following articles:
Slabdragger - Rise of the Dawncrusher
It really is the individual riffs that are the real stars here»
Oneida - Positions
Plenty to offer the patient listener with a taste for the avant-garde»
Blond:ish - Welcome to the Present
Welcome To the Present isn’t relaxing or interesting enough»
Black Breath - Slaves Beyond Death
There’s a more nuanced, skilled band lurking in here and it will be interesting to see if they're allowed to emerge»
Slayer - Repentless
Repentless is, fundamentally, a Slayer album, no more, no less»
Motörhead - Bad Magic
John Peel famously said of The Fall that they were 'always different, always the same': well, Motörhead are just always the same»
William Basinski - Cascade/The Deluge
If you enjoy ambient piano loops you’ll be extremely well served»
Bong - We Are, We Were and We Will Have Been
Whatever mysterious criteria one uses to rate drone albums Bong easily exceed in all of them»
Crocodiles - Boys
Perhaps one shouldn’t hang the stultification of an entire musical genre on Crocodiles. But they are symptomatic of a wider malaise»
Human Future - Spectrum
Sometimes music just doesn’t move you like it should.»
Tennis - Ritual in Repeat
Ritual In Repeat might just be the finest pop record you hear this summer, and maybe even this whole year.»
Wand - Golem
This is clearly a band with a lot of exciting places to go.»
Bad Guys - Bad Guynaecology
Heavy as balls and really fun.»
Gang of Four - What Happens Next
What are this new Gang of Four like? Well, not all that good it turns out»
Pelican - The Cliff
An experiment that was worth undertaking.»
Siskiyou - Nervous
The songs might not be classics quite yet but the sounds on offer here suggest that the best of Siskiyou might yet be ahead.»
Bass Drum of Death - Rip This
Rip This is utterly tedious.»
Full of Hell - Full of Hell & Merzbow
A partnership with lots of promise that doesn’t really deliver much.»
Live review: Trans Am, Electrowertz, London, 06/11/14
As loud, rocking and tight as hell as one could hope for»
Live review: Death from Above 1979, Electric Ballroom, 20/10/14
People are very, very glad to have Death from Above 1979 back in their lives»
Swans - Filth (remaster)
The best thing about Swans, and especially early Swans, is their sheer nihilism.»
Electric Wizard - Time to Die
It’s great that Electric Wizard are still around and are still pushing the limits of heavy music - not just for metal itself, but for British metal in particular.»
My Brightest Diamond - This Is My Hand
When the ‘less’ is as good as some of the songs in the second half, it’s easy to see why you might want more.»
Trans Am - Volume X
Volume X is their appropriately-titled tenth album. It's like early Metallica if they somehow discovered analogue synths.»
Javelin - Javelin
Plucky New York-based cousins Javelin’s live act sounds like a spectacle worth seeing. Using an FM transmitter to broadcast the si»
Jason Urick - Husbands
Husbands is a very compelling and enjoyable listen, and as far as inducing a particular mood goes, it's near faultless. »
Maps - Turning the Mind
Chapman seems to have no real sense of direction for this album, and thus the end result is wholly unfulfilling.»
Ramona Falls - Intuit
Those who enjoy their indie-rock beautiful, intelligent and exquisitely constructed have been well served this year, with the debu»
Hot Gossip - You Look Faster When You Are Young
Just to clear it up first: this particular Hot Gossip is not related to the British dance troupe of the same name responsible for »