Review | The Heads - yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell by Martyn Coppack
"Two decades on from their last album, The Heads fifth is a heady stew of the sounds that make them such a vital force in psychedelic music."
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Review | Loula Yorke (feat Charlotte Jolly) - Salix by @ouchmonkey.bsky.social
"The music is like a willow dipping its boughs in a stream, turning its leaves in the wind like a shoal."
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Review | Angine de Poitrine - Vol. II by @zmnathanson.bsky.social
"The second volume gets even wacky, dadaist, crazy, insane, and brilliant in a way those two guys can show how much wonderful music can come out of the Great White North."
echoesanddust.com/2026/04/angi...
Video Premiere | Okay You Win – 'Beat Me Down'
Riff-rocking, rollercoaster-ride of a new single from one of the most talked about heavy psych bands in the UK just now. Taken from their forthcoming debut LP End of Days via Blues Funeral Recordings bit.ly/OK_YW
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Single Premiere | For Breakfast - Longer Than Spring
North London based Art rock collective For Breakfast announce their long-awaited and eagerly anticipated debut album Longer Than Spring with the release of the title track.
Get this in your ears!
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Interview | Sid Ryan from Grade 2
Gavin Brown caught up with Grade 2 bassist/vocalist Sid Ryan to hear all about their new album and all manner of Grade 2 related topics from Hellcat Records to the Isle Of Wight.
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Review | Aggressive Perfector - Come Creeping Fiends by Martyn Coppack
"If you like metal, then this album is for you. It’s unabashed in its delivery, and more fun than an afternoon eating pizza, watching Return Of The Living Dead 3."
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Review | Green Carnation - A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis by @zmnathanson.bsky.social
"Sanguis is harder, edgier, powerful, and it still manages to see what the band will do next for the third and final chapter in the Dark Poem saga that waits for us."
echoesanddust.com/2026/04/gree...
Review | @sugarhorse.bsky.social - Not A Sound In Heaven by @teamhorse.bsky.social
"Sugar Horse pull off the unlikely feat of sounding like OMD and Ministry at the same time."
echoesanddust.com/2026/04/suga...
About a year ago, I went back to Continue As A Guest, and found its words and melodies already hiding back in my brain. Then the stuff I'd overlooked since at least Brill Bruisers was just as good as the early record. New one is less immediate, but I speed ran it...
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Review | Immolation - Descent by Martyn Coppack
"It’s an album which towers tall over the recent death metal revival and shows how it should be done."
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Review | Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore – Tragic Magic by @zmnathanson.bsky.social
"You feel as if you’re watching the duo, pouring their heart and soul into the album and bringing all of these wonders to life to make sure they’ve got it all down to a T."
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Review | The New Pornographers - The Former Site Of by @ouchmonkey.bsky.social
"Tenth album from beloved Canadian collective finds them getting even more insular and melancholy than its predecessor."
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Review | Konradsen - Hunt, Gather by @zivljub1.bsky.social
"They wrap it all up in some gentle & subtly complex songwriting that makes it all sound like it is worth the effort of turning it all into music, as well as keeping that search for the right path going."
echoesanddust.com/2026/04/konr...
Review | New Miserable Experience - Gild The Lily by @zmnathanson.bsky.social
"The melodies and darkness on Gild The Lily, is quite a moment of realisation and not a single bad track the band put forth for 2026."
echoesanddust.com/2026/04/new-...
Festival Preview | @supersonicfest.bsky.social
"Supersonic rolls around early this year. The festival is slimming down to a two-day event but will still be bringing its familiar rich feast of musical flavours." By @ouchmonkey.bsky.social bit.ly/Supersonic26 @rarelyunable.bsky.social
"Celebrating 20 years in the mind-expansion game."
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Today sees the release of 'Chronicles Of Gnowt Vol.1', the first of a new triptych of new album by the mighty Gnod.
Pick-up a ltd edition Blue Vinyl + Obi Strip via all good record shops:
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Interview | Woody Weatherman from Corrosion Of Conformity
Gavin Brown caught up with guitar legend Woody Weatherman to hear all about their new album, summer festivals, the band's early hardcore years, 30 years of the Wiseblood album and touring with Metallica.
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Review | Cave Dweller - Showing Teeth by David Bowes
"There’s still some of that old sound, tense steel-strung acoustica and extended spoken word passages, but it’s nestled among a forest of hulking post-metal riffs, drone metal and doom."
echoesanddust.com/2026/04/cave...
Review | Dewa Budjana & Czech Symphony Orchestra - Praguenayama by @zmnathanson.bsky.social
"Dewa is bound and ready to show how much he’s come a long way for 46 years. There’s not a single bad track on Praguenayama."
echoesanddust.com/2026/04/dewa...
@moonjunemusic.bsky.social
Review | Metal Church - Dead To Rights by Martyn Coppack
"It certainly deserves to be heard and hopefully will find a home with Metal Church fans old and new."
echoesanddust.com/2026/04/meta...
Interview | Woody Weatherman from Corrosion Of Conformity
Gavin Brown caught up with guitar legend Woody Weatherman to hear all about their new album, summer festivals, the band's early hardcore years, 30 years of the Wiseblood album and touring with Metallica.
echoesanddust.com/2026/04/wood...
Review | The Matador - Throat Of The Mountain by @garydavidson.bsky.social
"The Matador accomplish a tremendous feat of taking the familiar sounds of post-metal and amplifying them to exciting places."
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Review | Bill Nelson's Orchestra Futura - Live at Nelsonica & Clothworkers Hall by @zmnathanson.bsky.social
"A combination of these three musicians, prove to me they can take their leveling approach with mind-blowing beauty and spectacular walks of life."
echoesanddust.com/2026/04/bill...
Review | Gnod – Chronicles of Gnowt (Vol.1) by @ouchmonkey.bsky.social
"This is, perhaps, Gnod at their gentlest, but they've not mellowed out."
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Interview | M. from Lamp Of Murmuur
Gavin Brown caught up with Lamp Of Murmuur mastermind M. to talk about the upcoming tour, the latest album The Dreaming Prince In Ecstasy and all things black metal.
echoesanddust.com/2026/04/m-fr...
Review | Cryptworm - Infectious Pathological Waste by Martyn Coppack
"Dank, atmospheric, gritty and gruesome, it’s the soundtrack to a 70’s seedy horror movie gone wrong"
echoesanddust.com/2026/04/cryp...
Review | Jarboe - Sightings by @zivljub1.bsky.social
"By using the combination of acoustic (‘regular’) instrumentation and electronics Jarboe is attempting to make a connection between all that is visible, obvious and invisible, mystic in the natural world."
echoesanddust.com/2026/04/jarb...
Review | SUNN O))) – SUNN O))) by @ouchmonkey.bsky.social
"This is not passive, you need to engage if you want the good stuff, you’ve got to meet it somewhere. In this album’s case, that’s out in the woods."
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@subpop.bsky.social
Interview | Urlo from The Mon
Gavin Brown caught up with Urlo from The Mon/Ufomammut to get an insight into new The Mon album Songs Of Embrace, The Mon live shows and what Ufomammut have planned next.
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