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1 week ago | 
sun-13.com | Simon Kirk
This decade, Haress have been one of the most trusted voices across the U.K.’s experimental landscape. Led by Elizabeth Still and Dave Hand, over the years the pair have drafted in various voices – the latest manifestation seeing them joined by Chris Summerlin (Hey Colossus, Grey Hairs et al) and Dave Smyth (Kling Klang) – and it’s proved for shimmering results.
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1 week ago | 
sun-13.com | Simon Kirk
Contrast is a wonderful thing, and something that Brooklyn’s Peter Joseph knows all about. His more renown gig as vocalist and guitarist of OOF – the collective that splices together street-level-inspired humour with proto-punk – worlds away from his solo side hustle as Exploding Skull. Formerly of Pelviss and Rathaus, Joseph’s Exploding Skull endeavour sees the guitarist move beyond the sound worlds of the above-noted acts to somewhere that could be described as a meditative enclave.
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1 week ago | 
sun-13.com | Simon Kirk
Cairo oddessy The Dwarfs of East Agouza announce details of their much anticipated new album and first for Constellation Records. Sasquatch Landslide will be released on October 3 via the legendary Canadian label, and today the band share the lead track, Neptune Anteater, which you can listen to below.
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1 week ago | 
sun-13.com | Simon Kirk
For those who lived through a generation where a physical piece of art was a vital source in one’s world instead of a dot in the rearview mirror, in a bid to negotiate and make sense of a vastly different modern world, perhaps the only way forward is to try and capture points of the past and make them relevant in the present. That’s what RIBS accomplish on their debut LP, Junk Dynasty Leaderboard.
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2 weeks ago | 
sun-13.com | Simon Kirk
Just like our latest AQ feature, the EPs have slowly but surely been piling up over the last couple of months. It’s been said many times, but while the EP seems slightly neglected in the wider circles of music journalism both in print and online, with a younger generation increasingly showing their own neglect in the direction of the LP, the extended play could well be the sweet spot moving forward in the new music sphere.
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2 weeks ago | 
sun-13.com | Simon Kirk
Since Sun 13’s inception, I can’t think of a U.K. band that’s experienced a trajectory quite like Glasgow’s Dragged Up.While the band’s 2020 self-titled release piqued the interests of the devoted few, Dragged Up’s Hex Domestic EP lifted them to new stratospheres, which subsequently led them up and down the country in support of the release. Their brand of pervasive slacker-inspired indie rock, influenced by the past but delivered with the kind of gusto very much relevant in the present.
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2 weeks ago | 
sun-13.com | Simon Kirk
Activity has always had an aptitude for prescience. Take their era-defining debut LP, the eerily titled Unmask Whoever, which was released in the first weeks of the COVID pandemic. Three years later, their follow-up, Spirit in the Room, was, indeed, just that. (Listening back, and it still feels like said spirit is stalking the hallways.)Sonically and thematically, Activity occupies the space between your dreams and nightmares.
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2 weeks ago | 
sun-13.com | Simon Kirk
“I’m obsessed with aesthetics / I need an an aesthetic, so please call me a medic / To get through” sings Andrew Cahak during I Survived the Cave – one of the many street-level snapshots from Unstable Shapes’ debut long-player, Delicate Machinery. On their Bandcamp page, the Minneapolis, Minnesota collective (led by Cahak on vocals and joined by guitarists Mitch Gustafson and Ryan Jaroscak, bassist Kevin Hurley, and drummer James Taylor) claim they are “noisy post-whatever”.
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3 weeks ago | 
sun-13.com | Simon Kirk
So far, 2025 must hold the record for the most albums released in such a short space of time. There been so much, and it’s one of the reasons our latest AQ edition has been the most difficult to curate, hence the slight delay.
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3 weeks ago | 
sun-13.com | Simon Kirk
Last year, speaking with Emil Amos and Alex Hall about their Grails side hustle, Lilacs & Champagne, in anticipation of the project’s 2024 release, Fantasy World, the former spoke of not having the burden of commercial responsibility. In the same interview, Amos confessed that the duo had “pulled down all the toys off the shelves and have made a big fucking mess. And now everybody else has to deal with it.”That same renegade spirit is rampant on Grails’ latest odyssey, Miracle Music.
