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1 week ago | 
godisinthetvzine.co.uk | Devin Birse
It feels as though the winds are finally shifting in Noise Rock's favour. It's been a good few years for the genre, especially in Ireland. Following the pioneering work of Gilla Band, a host of young artists have been exploring decibel destruction with the same fervor and intensity as the New York no-wavers and the Chicago Touch and Go scene. Just as equally, from New York, a new wave of experiential fairs seems to be emerging.
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2 weeks ago | 
stilllisteningmagazine.com | Devin Birse
While no stranger to horror Billy Woods has always had one step planted in the light. While it wasn’t always a heavenly light it was a light nonetheless. Shots of childhood memories, tender moments, and the various other points of comfort in between life's grim absurdities.
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1 month ago | 
thelineofbestfit.com | Devin Birse
At one point this could’ve been a glorious meringue that would let loose a swirl of violins and twinkling guitars at the slightest crack. Instead, the pieces are fractured across the plate, the band's core ingredients smothered in a wash of new sounds, clashing drums, bursting brass and manipulated vocals. The result is an album far messier than their meticulously melancholic debut, and more beautiful for it. Lead single “Total Euphoria” was a clear sign of something shifting.
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1 month ago | 
godisinthetvzine.co.uk | Devin Birse
Emerging out of Limerick with chiming guitars, roaring drums, and screamed vocals, Some Images of Paradise are more than just an exciting new band; they're fully formed. Their unique sound is hard to categorise, post-emo? Jangle skramz? Avant-hardcore? Whatever it is, it's bleary-eyed and beautiful. An ever-shifting tundra of catharsis and nihilism laced with hope. Both live and in the studio, they're an impressive beast blending tragic intimacy with mosh pit anthems with ease and intelligence.
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1 month ago | 
godisinthetvzine.co.uk | Devin Birse
Despite its continued relevance, indie music rarely seems to communicate our times. Its sounds are often so reliant on the past that they feel a step apart from our modern concerns. It's an issue typical of genres but one that also speaks to how the sound of a soul isn't necessarily rooted in its instruments.
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1 month ago | 
godisinthetvzine.co.uk | Devin Birse
Unwinding by Sunglasz Vendor sounds as though something broke when it was dropped onto streaming services. Its melodies and songwriting are both infectious and splintered. Its three members share backgrounds in Bristol's burgeoning experimental rock scene, playing in bands that sound as though they are creating grand sonic chains between the disparate genres that lay outside the immediate and accessible. Sunglasz Vendor doesn't come across as a band with some grand concept underpinning their sound.
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2 months ago | 
godisinthetvzine.co.uk | Devin Birse
Quade's debut Nacre often felt like a submergence. The gradual thrum of the bass against violin whirls and motorik drums created an album of time-traveling post-rock. The band's delicate textures melded with a constant forward thrum to create a sound that ricocheted from neo-medieval noodling to dubby ambiance with delicate ease. Its sounds submerged the listener deep enough that they swam through its complex movements with ease.
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2 months ago | 
godisinthetvzine.co.uk | Devin Birse
Glittering between horror and euphoria Marina Zispin, the new project of noise experimentalist Martyn Reid and art pop explorer Bianca Scoutt, offers a decidedly fresh form of dance floor gloom. Despite sharing a similar taste for synth pop decadence and haunted vocals as the recent wave of goth revivalists, there's a certain ephemeral touch that causes Zispin to stand out from the crowd.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
post-trash.com | Devin Birse
by Devin Birse (@devvvvi.b)In the age of endless hype cycles and hot-as-shit new bands with at least three different string instruments, Moin feels more distinct than ever. Even at their inception, they were a unique proposition, the two guys behind the exquisite dark ambient project RAIME but now on guitars and bass with drummer par excellence Valentina Magaletti in the mix to help them crank out hypnotic post-hardcore grooves.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
post-trash.com | Devin Birse
by Devin Birse (@devvvvi.b)Geordie Greep’sThe New Sound might just be the great sonic flex of the decade so far. I mean flex here in the most literal sense, a muscle flexing. An exposure of the raw strength possessed but one wrought with tension veins popping, skin stretching. Every aspect of the glistening visage also portrays the painstaking lengths taken to create this moment, this particular movement. This ripple in the flesh.
