Louder Than War

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Louder Than WarScenesThe Lovely Basement : Bristol Out Of My Window / We Love You – single review The first album, 2019’s Just Because You Can was great. This is a fantastic, slow-burning, modestly brilliant album. Smart, unassuming and cool. I said, astutely. So was the second.

11.06

Louder Than WarScenesVelocity Made Good: Big Breakers – EP Review Built around analogue synthesisers, live drums and walls of amplified sound, Big Breakers captures a band embracing the possibilities of making music without worrying too much about where it belongs.

11.06

Louder Than WarScenesIt’s Karma It’s Cool : Jeremiah – single review and video premiere This human condition Sure feels like a disease You caught yours And I breathe mine This pain that broke you Also built you Jeremiah -IKIC (C) Jeremiah is one of those songs that, if you heard it on…

11.06

Louder Than WarScenesPyncher: The Eight Legged Band – Single Review Northern powerhouse Pyncher deliver their latest single, The Eight Legged Band, in advance of their forthcoming EP of the same name – released November 20th.

11.05

Louder Than WarScenesDavid J: Walking With The Angels – Single Review & Video Premiere Legendary bassist and songwriter for Bauhaus, Love And Rockets and Night Crickets, David J, returns to his solo career to release new single Walking With The Angels and confirms details of his new…

11.05

Louder Than WarScenesDoc ‘n Roll Film Festival announce London screening of The Best Summer, Tamra Davis’ record of the 1995 Summersault Festival The Best Summer’s premiere is at the ICA, London, this Friday (November 6th) A unique document with unparalleled insight, thanks to the film’s director, Tamra Davis, who was married to one of the…

11.05

Louder Than WarScenesRock ’n’ Roll Freak Show Experience returns to Electric Brixton with Band of Skulls and Vylan Soundsystem The Rock ’n’ Roll Freak Show Experience returns to Electric Brixton on Friday 6 November

11.05

Louder Than WarScenesThe Durutti Column’s “Your Shadow At Morning” Reimagined by Four Tet Following the success of their first album in 16 years Renascent, The Durutti Column have kindly let Kieran Hebden from Fourtet loose on one of their tracks, a sublime remix of the highest standards…

11.04

Louder Than WarScenesMatt Finucane: Ruination – Album Review Brighton-based artist Matt Finucane returns with Ruination, a new album released digitally on 30 October, with a physical edition to follow on Eyeless Records.

11.04

Louder Than WarScenesPoorly Trained Radicals: We’ll Go On To Win – Album Review This record sounds like it popped out of a time warp from a free festival in the early 90s. I’ll be dropping reference points from that time as freely as freaks were dropping acid.

11.04

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.