Will Ainsley

Avon, Leeds

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

none of @tenchpress / half of @jellyskinband / content mercenary for @thequietus @bandcamp @pitchfork @SPIN / available for churnalism + journalism alike

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Bambara, “Birthmarks”

2 months ago | daily.bandcamp.com | Will Ainsley

ALBUM OF THE DAY Bambara, “Birthmarks” By Will Ainsley · March 19, 2025 Bambara Brooklyn, New York follow &check; following unfollow ... Birthmarks Bambara . / pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to track .
“I have two sources of sound: the guitar pickups and the one in my hand. The less effects there are, the better I feel”: Thurston Moore hailed Nina Garcia as noise guitar’s secret weapon - and an unusual pickup is key to her otherworldly explorations | Gu

Feb 14, 2025 | guitarworld.com | Will Ainsley

Some guitarists treat the instrument with deference: each note they coax out is seamless, glossy and well-rounded like their pristine Stratocaster or SE Custom. Others are more combative: they wrench noises from their beaten and battered machines like it owes them money. Think Bill Orcutt or Viv Albertine. Nina Garcia – once known under her alias Mariachi – falls into that category. The French musician’s playing occupies the outer musical territories.
“I have two sources of sound: the guitar pickups and the one in my hand. The less effects there are, the better I feel”: Thurston Moore hailed Nina Garcia as noise guitar’s secret weapon - and an unusual pickup is key to her otherworldly explorations | Fl

Feb 14, 2025 | flipboard.com | Will Ainsley

3 hours agoEleven of us — all women dressed in lingerie, silk robes and other sheer or flowy clothing — are dancing, freeform, in a circle. Spacy electronic music fills the room, which looks something like a spa tent: Faded woven carpets blanket the floor, billowy white curtains drape from the ceiling and …
“My ethos is, ‘Choose any guitar you want.’ It doesn’t matter at the end of the day. I’d rather spend the money on pedals”: Introducing Ditz, the UK post-punks who don’t mind fighting their equipment to achieve their vicious six-string bite

Feb 12, 2025 | guitarworld.com | Will Ainsley

Brighton rock band Ditz turn out a knotty blend of hardcore, industrial and post-punk, and their two-pronged guitar attack owes a lot to how Jack Looker and Anton Mocock were introduced to the guitar. “I got Guitar Hero for Christmas one year,” Mocock says. “Obviously I was like, ‘This is so easy!’ Then I started learning guitar and it was not easy.”Looker recalls: “I used to get those shitty guitars from Argos when I was like 3 or 4 – the little plastic ones with the really bad strings on.
“My ethos is, ‘Choose any guitar you want.’ It doesn’t matter at the end of the day. I’d rather spend the money on pedals”: Introducing Ditz, the UK post-punks who don’t mind fighting their equipment to achieve their vicious six-string bite | Flipboard

Feb 12, 2025 | flipboard.com | Will Ainsley

“We’re not hearing $1,750 difference in the sonic quality, feel or playability. Far from it”: Epiphone Joe Bonamassa 1955 Les Paul Standard and Gibson Les Paul Standard ’50s Mahogany Top reviewWhat is it? Choices, choices, choices: you want to buy a new Les Paul but which one? At the time of writing, and excluding Juniors and Specials, …
Introducing Ditz, the UK post-punks who don’t mind fighting their equipment to achieve their vicious six-string bite

Feb 12, 2025 | yahoo.com | Will Ainsley

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Anton Mocock of Ditz. | Credit: Marie LehmannBrighton rock band Ditz turn out a knotty blend of hardcore, industrial and post-punk, and their two-pronged guitar attack owes a lot to how Jack Looker and Anton Mocock were introduced to the guitar. “I got Guitar Hero for Christmas one year,” Mocock says.
Manic Street Preachers – Critical Thinking | The Quietus

Feb 7, 2025 | thequietus.com | Bobby Barry |Will Ainsley

There’s a charming lack of cynicism to the Manic Street Preachers’ new album, Critical Thinking. Despite concerning themselves explicitly with hyper-capitalism, managed decline, and political unrest, James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, and Shaun Moore can’t help but turn out something that sounds, well, optimistic. But this is the charged, gimlet-eyed optimism of the soapbox speaker: things are bad but they can get better, so you’d better listen in.
Lina Tullgren – Decide Which Way The Eyes Are Looking | The Quietus

Feb 4, 2025 | thequietus.com | Daryl Worthington |Bobby Barry |Will Ainsley

The songs on Decide Which Way The Eyes Are Looking, Lina Tullgren’s new album, seem to come together in real-time. Tullgren’s elliptical melodies and understated delivery are pitched somewhere between early draft and final product, like they have been caught in the first flush of inspiration. Horns and brass are strewn throughout, often fitting themselves almost tentatively around the sleepy, tumbling songs. At the end of ‘Poem’, you hear a voice – Tullgren’s? – saying “yeah, that was great”.
The New Psychedelia

Oct 30, 2024 | daily.bandcamp.com | Will Ainsley

LISTS The New Psychedelia By Will Ainsley · Illustration by Jose Berrio · October 30, 2024 You might hear the phrase “psychedelic music” and think of LSD and Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters; The Doors and Jefferson Airplane; Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968, cartoonish backwards noises, and plummy English accents intoning acid-fried couplets about Lord of the Rings, folklore, and seeing within. This is a common response.
Thee Marloes, “Perak”

Aug 12, 2024 | daily.bandcamp.com | Will Ainsley

ALBUM OF THE DAY Thee Marloes, “Perak” By Will Ainsley · August 12, 2024 Thee Marloes Surabaya, Indonesia follow &check; following unfollow ... Perak Thee Marloes . / pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to track .

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Articles

Bambara, “Birthmarks”

“I have two sources of sound: the guitar pickups and the one in my hand. The less effects there are, the better I feel”: Thurston Moore hailed Nina Garcia as noise guitar’s secret weapon - and an unusual pickup is key to her otherworldly explorations | Gu

“I have two sources of sound: the guitar pickups and the one in my hand. The less effects there are, the better I feel”: Thurston Moore hailed Nina Garcia as noise guitar’s secret weapon - and an unusual pickup is key to her otherworldly explorations | Fl

“My ethos is, ‘Choose any guitar you want.’ It doesn’t matter at the end of the day. I’d rather spend the money on pedals”: Introducing Ditz, the UK post-punks who don’t mind fighting their equipment to achieve their vicious six-string bite

“My ethos is, ‘Choose any guitar you want.’ It doesn’t matter at the end of the day. I’d rather spend the money on pedals”: Introducing Ditz, the UK post-punks who don’t mind fighting their equipment to achieve their vicious six-string bite | Flipboard

Introducing Ditz, the UK post-punks who don’t mind fighting their equipment to achieve their vicious six-string bite

Manic Street Preachers – Critical Thinking | The Quietus

Lina Tullgren – Decide Which Way The Eyes Are Looking | The Quietus

The New Psychedelia

Thee Marloes, “Perak”

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