Devin Birse

1 week 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.

4 weeks 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.

1 month 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.

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.

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.