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THE KRISTEN CARDIASMENOS PROJECT – DOPE AFFAIR (Bandcamp) (2025)
Californian psych rock band The Kristen Caridasmenos Project is a sextet of Kristen on guitar and electric sitar (Heard on groovy opening...
Jun 16, 20251 min read
STEREOLAB – INSTANT HOLOGRAMS ON METAL FILM (Warp/ Duophonic) (2025)
Stereolab’s eagerly awaited first album for 15 years doesn’t disappoint. Their genre defying, totally unique and instantly recognisable...
Jun 16, 20251 min read
NICK DRAKE – THE MAKING OF FIVE LEAVES LEFT (4 x LP or 4 x CD) (Island Records): Release date 25th July, 2025
I remember well my first exposure to the music of Nick Drake: the song Time Has Told Me on an Island sampler. I was hooked and bought the...
Jun 16, 20251 min read
MIKE OLDFIELD – HERGEST RIDGE (50th ANNIVERSARY) (Universal/ Island) (2025)
Mike Oldfield’s sophomore album was, like his unlikely groundbreaking chart-topping, universally acclaimed album “Tubular Bells”, in two...
Jun 14, 20251 min read
NEIL YOUNG AND THE CHROME HEARTS – TALKIN’ TO THE TREES (Reprise) (2025)
It’s always interesting to hear what Neil Young has to say. Exhaustion restricted Young’s tour last summer although he is embarking on...
Jun 14, 20251 min read
BLACK SABBATH’S FINAL BOW: Back to the Beginning, Villa Park, Birmingham, 5th July, 2025
The original Black Sabbath line-up is reforming for a historic concert with all profits going to charity. There is an interesting article...
Jun 14, 20251 min read
INGLESE AND NANNETTI – L’ARTE DI ARRANGIARSI (Maracash Records) (DL & CD)(2025)
Gabriele Inglese and Paolo Nannetti released their first album together in2023, “Working to Distract Myself”. “The Art of Making Do.” is...
Jun 4, 20251 min read
SIMON HOUSE R.I.P. (1948 – 2025)
Sad to hear the news that Simon House has passed. Classically trained, his violin work helped to define the sound of the legendary High...
Jun 3, 20251 min read
More on HAPPY FAMILY
The Happy Family review is proving a popular read so I thought I would present a brief potted history of Happy Family, recently...
Jun 3, 20251 min read
RICHARD GORMAN – W C N S F (Bandcamp) (2025)
Please support if you can. The cause is a just and worthy one. More words of wisdom in this troubled world of ours from Dundee’s...
Jun 3, 20252 min read
MOST VIEWED POSTS ON DISS: important info
Unfortunately counters are no longer in operation on this site so we cannot check the total number of visitors. but we do know that that...
May 31, 20251 min read
YAATRI – LETTERS TO A LOST POET (Bandcamp) (2025)
I first heard Yaatri at Peggy’s Skylight and was entranced by them, eagerly snapping up an autographed LP; I saw their subsequent EP...
May 29, 20251 min read
MAJA, GILAD AND NIXOS – A DARK MOVIE SCENE (Aesthetiko) (RSD limited white vinyl) (2005)
Maja Babyszka, British woodwind virtuoso Gilad Atzmon and Greek drummer Nikos Sidirokastritis have joined forces to create what the press...
May 28, 20251 min read
ADAM FAIRHALL & JOHNNY HUNTER PLAY MARY LOU WILLIAMS (Discus/ Bandcamp) (CD & DL)
Mancunians Fairhall and Hunter get back to basics with an upright piano and a snare drum. The origins of this recording are unusual in...
May 26, 20251 min read
JULEE CRUISE _FALL _FLOAT- _LOVE (Works 1989- 1993) (Cherry Red) 2 x CD (2025)
Julee Cruise (1956 – 2022): WIRE magazine said that Julee fitted into “the David Lynch world with her peroxide shock and rockette...
May 26, 20251 min read
FLYING LOTUS – ASH original soundtrack (Milan DL) (2025)
A heads up for the latest project of Steven Ellison, the man behind Flying Lotus who is the grandnephew of Alice Coltrane. He signed for...
May 26, 20252 min read
GEORGE HARRISON – ALL THINGS MUST PASS (50th Anniversary Edition) (2 x CD) (Dark Horse Records) (2025)
In the artist’s own words “I knew I was gonna make a good album because I had so many songs and so much energy…it was joyous. A dream of...
May 22, 20251 min read
STEREOLAB – INSTANT HOLOGRAMS ON METAL FILM (Duophonic Discs/ Warp) (2 x LP, CD, DL) (Release date: 23rd May, 2025)
They’re having a listening party at my ‘local’ record shop. I would definitely go if I could on the evidence of the two tracks already...
May 22, 20251 min read
LA NOUVELLE MUSIQUE (Fruits de Mer Records) (LP) (Release date – 30th June, 2025)
A heads up for this album by Joanna Beck and Ian de Silva that they describe as “cinematic psychedelia, mixing the psych/ folk elements...
May 22, 20251 min read
PHIL HARGREAVES PLUS MALCHAMECH – BEAUTIFUL DECAY (WHI MUSIC) (CD/DL)
Prepare for some free range jazz from Phil Hargreaves and his trio, impressionistic music with sounds varying from squawking gulls,...
May 15, 20251 min read
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