Edley ODowd – healthyliving – Lana Del Rabies – Liturgy – album reviews

This time Fighting Boredom focuses more towards noise, drone and strangeness. All these releases are emotional and huge sounding. The ‘nightmares and bliss’ of Edley ODowd, the ‘kaleidoscopic and evocative musical world’ of healthyliving, the ‘deep exploration of the cyclical… Continue Reading

MATTERS – Attrition – B.E.F. – Edredon Sensible – album and E.P reviews

Fighting Boredom give you a new review page, with the beautiful electronics of MATTERS, the dark synth beats of Attrition, the pioneering electronica of B.E.F. and the frankly bonkers Jazz of Edredon Sensible, read what we thought below. MATTERS Echolocations… Continue Reading

Cruel Nature Cassette Reviews February 2023 – One Key Magic – Katie Gerardine O’Neill – Austin Cash – HALALCHEMISTS – Ddrome

Cruel Nature Recordings are a Northumberland based DIY label specialising in limited edition cassettes for eclectic tastes. They release new tapes and downloads every week, this is the latest batch. These go from music recorded and influenced by the Fylingdales… Continue Reading

Cock Sparrer – BL’AST! – [sub] [hum] [ans] -reissue album reviews

Three Reissues for your listening amusement this time, the ‘seminal Oi band’ Cock Sparrer, the ‘Frenetic, coarse and frequently atonal’ Bl’ast! and the seminal first album from [SUB][HUM][ANS] who were definetely ‘not the usual early eighties punk rock band’. Read… Continue Reading

DEBBY FRIDAY – MOWGLI – BIG|BRAVE – album reviews

Fighting Boredom bring you three new album reviews. The ‘earthen heaviness’ of BIG|BRAVE. The ‘high-octane, provocative electronics’ of DEBBY FRIDAY and the ‘Experimental Electro Jazz-Rock’ of MOWGLI. Read what we thought below. BIG|BRAVE Nature Morte Thrill Jockey This whole album… Continue Reading

Mudd Club – LOVEBITES – Anna B Savage – 7Seconds – album reviews

Fighting Boredom gives you four new albums we’ve been listening to, garage delinquents The Mudd Club, Japanese all female Metalheads LOVEBITES, classic US hardcore 7seconds and the emotional lost sound of Anna B Savage. See what we thought of them… Continue Reading

Cruel Nature Releases – All The Heavens Were A Bell – Neutraliser – Downtime – Kitchen Cynics – Score

Cruel Nature Recordings are a Northumberland based DIY label specialising in limited edition cassettes for eclectic tastes. They release new tapes and downloads every week, this is the latest batch. These go from drone to folk to an album influenced… Continue Reading

Electronic Music – Planetary Assault Systems – Terence Fixmer – Artificial Intelligence – Giant Swan

This is a page about the electronic albums we have bought in the first couple of weeks of the year, well, when I say we, I mean the photographer. Although we did both buy the Warp compilation reissue on account… Continue Reading

Cherry Red Reissues – The Barracudas – Dinosaur Jr – Angelic Upstarts

Cherry Red Records releases a slew of reissues, special editions and box sets every month, Fighting Boredom have been checking out three that caught our eye this time. An Angelic Upstarts singles double CD compilation, a musical history of the… Continue Reading