Jeffrey Lewis – Melondruie – Tibshelf – The Silent North – Washington Formica – IOM – Catapult Elpam – Pound Land – Sacred Paws – album reviews

This time on the ever effervescent reviews page I bring you, well acording to all the PRs anyway, the sounds of Jeffrey Lewis who ‘may forever be “a complete unknown” to the world at large, but those who know, know.… Continue Reading

Yellow Belly – Chaos Emeralds – The Orphaned Bee – Bonnie Trash – Collosloth – Venamoris – VARIOUS ARTISTS – Электронная Музыка АНС (ANS Electronic Music) – Satøri – album reviews

This week we give you another bunch of releases. Featuring Yellow Belly’s ‘deep, atmospheric music’. Chaos Emeralds and their ‘set of scuzzy emo gems’. The Orphaned Bees ‘Synth Rock with unusual beats, vocoders and guitars’. Bonnie Trash’s ‘sudden, swift dagger… Continue Reading

Tim Hecker – Parastatic – The Limiñanas – Emmaleen Tangleweed – The Bordellos (with Dee Claw) – Neon Kittens – Ryan James Mawbey -Winterwood – album reviews

Another week of reviews and music, Fighting Boredom give you our thoughts on Tim Hecker’s collection of electronic pieces originally written for various film and TV soundtracks. Parastatic with their album ‘inspired by their fascination with Brutalist architecture’. The Limiñanas… Continue Reading

Attrition – TORU – Wardruna – Anna B Savage – Edvard Graham Lewis – Weed Demon – Vamberator – RØRY – Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains – album reviews

This time in between listening to the biggies, Mogwai and FKA Twigs which I didn’t review as they have been reviewed everywhere and what’s been said is mostly what I thought anyway, inbetween listening to them I have been listening… Continue Reading

SCXLVR – Pocket Dimension – The Incidental Crack – Lee Ashcroft – Amongst Liars – Kiasmos – Hypnodrone Ensemble – Yomi Ship – Diuretic – Cockney Rejects – album reviews

Ten releases this time so it should keep you entertained for a while, this time Fighting Boredom gives you our views on SCXLVR where ‘distorted beats and dub bass collide with ambient layers, glitchy textures and ethereal tones’. The ‘mystery… Continue Reading

Marcel Wave – Squid Pisser – Yishai Sweartz/ Mona Mur – Daniel Davies – Scene Queen – Upright forms – MAbH – Score – R.Y.N. – Album Reviews

Today we give you, ‘DIY punk five-piece’ Marcel Wave. The ‘electrifying fusion of hardcore punk and avant-garde grindcore’ of Squid Pisser. The ‘collaborative release between the founding member and the vocalist of Tomorrow’s Rain and the cult Berlin-based singer/composer Yishai… Continue Reading

Todeskino – Crushtrash x Nicholas Langley – Melondruie – Eric Chenaux Trio – Martha Rose – Ora Cogan – Haunted Plasma – Lowlives – album reviews

Fighting Boredom delve deep into the files sent over and bought for another bumper reviews page, this time we give you Todeskino who we see ‘Ranging from sweet pop ambient to glitchy, beat-collapsing IDM’ Crushtrash x Nicholas Langley who ‘blend… Continue Reading

Harvestman – Merzbow & Meat Beat Manifesto – Pound Land – Adult Jazz – The Lost Letters – Poppy H – album reviews

Today we give you Harvestman’s ‘signpost to the sacred that might not indicate where to look, but how.’ in the first part of his trilogy of albums to come this year. The ‘unique collaboration between Industrial Breakbeat pioneers MEAT BEST… Continue Reading

Sinkane – Dragged Up – The Jonny Halifax Invocation – The Eunuchs – album reviews

This time on the reviews page we have the ‘joyous, uplifting “love letter to Black music.” from Sinkane. The ‘expanding on the ‘lo-fi garage scuzz with Sabbath-esque doom ethereal spoken word and deconstructed glam-punk’ Then the ‘skronk blues guitar, sax and… Continue Reading

Belle Royals – MaBH – MAQUINA. – Gvantsa Narim – album reviews

Today on the Fighting Boredom album reviews page we give you the ‘ frenzied noise punk and samples, alongside a lyrical hotchpotch of satire, in-jokes, cultural references, oddball obsessions, improvisation and cut-outs’ of Belle Royals. The ‘longform journey that glides… Continue Reading