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ALBUM REVIEW – Crinc – Cig Cymreig

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Ladies and Gentlemen (and other denominations), welcome to the freakzone world of Crinc… I’m inviting you because they probably won’t. They’re probably not aware of you; or even themselves. Crinc are an enigma, insomuch that they operate on their own terms.

I think they’re from Bangor, or a small self-declared enclave nearby, and would love to imagine they hoof all kinds of powders up their hooters (including Vim), and spend the whole of October harvesting those little mushrooms that God so kindly blesses the fields of North Wales with.

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NEW ALBUM – Maines – Sometimes We Live

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[orig published by louderthanwar]

Maines have long been held in high esteem by all who have seen and heard them… The problem is, they need more people to see and hear them… Sporadic releases and sporadic live appearances throughout their ten year existence hampers a band who should be up there with the best of them.
‘Sometimes We Live’ is a modern day masterpiece.

If you notice the tags on their bandcamp page, they read: Punk Grunge Noise-rock Shoegaze – yeah you get all that in a 24 minute, post-hardcore apocalyptic package.

Maines are quiet and unassuming in real life, preferring to be part of the crowd rather than stand out from it. On stage (and on record) they take on a different form, like a good tradesman (sorry, tradesperson) with their tools, the songs are crafted and honed to perfection. Yet I don’t think this outfit from Conwy realise how good they actually are…!

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NEW ALBUM – Scotch Funeral – Abysmal Nostalgia

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Now a decade into unleashing his music Scotch Funeral has put together a new album of songs, from the past, about the past.
They were written and recorded between 2012-2018 and mastered by Ben Dempsy Sawin (of Mowbird & Eitha Da fame).
There’s a unique, yet authentic feel about Scotch Funeral’s songs, and they’re definitely a contagion. You find yourself drawn in by the sound, the style and the simplicity.
Highly recommended…

Out now on CD and download

NEW SINGLE / VIDEO – Holy Coves – Away We Go

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Holyhead’s Holy Coves have published this great ‘feel-good’ video from the critically acclaimed album ‘Druids and Bards’

AWAY WE GO’ is the fourth single and video in a series of five music videos to be released by the band from their acclaimed  album ‘Druids and Bards’  – created by award winning Ukrainian Filmmaker Taras Merenkov and filmed by Jason Griffith.

Notably, Taras Merenkov won an award for the video he shot for the band for their video for ‘The Hurt Within’ and we can see history repeating itself with the video for ‘Away We Go’.

Merenkov’s hazy cinematic style of direction really emphasises  and captures the very essence of the music and makes a formidable accompanying visual, filmed on location in the band’s local vicinity in Wales. 

As mentioned above, ‘AWAY WE GO’ is taken from the band’s critically acclaimed album ‘Druids and Bards‘ which is out now via Welsh label ‘Yr Wyddfa Records’

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New Album – LLYN Y CWN – Stratigraphy

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The man behind Mank also alter-egos himself as Llyn Y Cwn, and he’s back with a brand new album…

‘Stratigraphy’ is an album of environmental ambient sound; three long-form pieces following the voyage of an imagined sonde dropped from the upper atmosphere through the clouds, through the ocean and below the seabed, through the sediments and bedrock, through layers of increasing density and time towards the centre of gravity, through stratigraphy.

An aural cross section of our planet, through air, water and earth, each of these elements a layer of the stratigraphy of Earth, and each with an internal stratigraphy formed over time scales ranging from minutes to millennia.

The album contains the sound of air as its boundary layer traverses geological features, recordings from a hydrophone attached to a CTD (conductivity, temperature and depth probe, an oceanographic instrument used to measure the stratification of the sea) as it descends to 100m below the surface of the Irish Sea. Manipulated samples of a sub bottom profiler, a sonar system that uses acoustic energy to produce images of sub-seabed features.

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