Lee Fisher

1 week ago | narcmagazine.com | Lee Fisher

Rough TradeReleased: 30.05.25From the first play of opener Total Euphoria, it was clear they’d done it again. A pure, clear guitar line turns into a lurching, almost shoegaze passage, violins and faltering drums and gorgeous overlapping vocals, before a blast of cleansing, euphoric noise rips the song apart and the voices come to the fore, that collective, almost hymnal, quality caroline have.

2 weeks ago | narcmagazine.com | Lee Fisher

Image: Richard Dawson by Lee FisherRhodri Davies’ harp is onstage before he is, looking a little like the harp equivalent of a Flying V but actually a witches or bray harp (or Telyn Wrachïod). As Rhodri explains, it’s a medieval harp with a distinct sound caused by some special pegs at the base of each string, the buzz they cause creating the ‘braying’ sound.

2 weeks ago | narcmagazine.com | Lee Fisher

FireReleased: 23.05.25This is the third reimagined score from Death & Vanilla (after Vampyr and The Tenant) and it’s a gem. The 1968 BBC supernatural MR James adaptation is a bit of a folk horror motherlode and while I don’t have a copy handy to check, I suspect this new score, recorded live in Malmö, fits the mood of the film really well. It’s very much in the Ghost Box/Broadcast sphere but D&V always bring something of their own.

3 weeks ago | narcmagazine.com | Lee Fisher

Image: Powtes by Lee FisherAfter some near misses, tonight I finally got to see Powtes and I wasn’t disappointed. A newish folk collective from Newcastle fronted by Gus Beamish, they played on the floor in the round which brought a proper folk session feel to the Fiend.

1 month ago | narcmagazine.com | Lee Fisher

IpecacReleased 09.05.25And then somehow 20 years have passed and everything is much worse and here are Mclusky, picking up exactly where they left off (like the second [Rec] movie), roaring out of the gate with Unpopular Parts Of A Pig like, I dunno, vaporwave never happened. It’s not entirely business as usual –there’s an unlikely skank to Cops & Coppers, The Digger You Deep has a stoner rock riff, Not All Steeplejacks is taut, lurching, menacing.