Extra Life – Secular Works Vol.2 (Last Things) – The return album, an unexpected return from Extra Life, back there in the Summer, no fanfare, no warning, we did celebrate the news at the time, we never did get around to properly reviewing the new album back there and now here we are in the…
Wel lwe weren’t expecting that today, one of the very best bands ever without any kind of hint or warning or rumour or fanfare, without anything, “Surprise” said Charlie Looker on the bands Facebook page. Suprise? What an understatement, and what a first taste. Just one track up there on the band’s Bandcamp page for…
The editorial, the introduction bit and the Five music things thing for whatever it is all about. Five? There’s something rather compelling about five. Cross-pollination? Five more? Do we need to do the editorial bit again? Is there another way? A cure for pulling cats out of hats? Is there a rhyme? Is there a…
Shall we do it again, five more? The Five music things thing for whatever it still might still be worth. Five? There’s something rather compelling about five. Cross-pollination? Five more? and why do we do all this? Do we need to do the editorial bit again? Is there another way? A cure for pulling cats…
Toby Driver as Alora Crucible/Daniel O’Sullivan at Cafe Oto, London, March 23rd, 2022 – By the time Alora Crucible begin, London is weirdly, appropriately hushed, the air thickened by Saharan dust. Alora Crucible is a trio led by composer/multi-instrumentalist Toby Driver, completed by Ana Cristina Perez on keyboards and violinist Timba Harris (Secret Chiefs 3,…
The recend album from Alora Crucible is another of Toby Driver‘s, almost said one of his side projects but that isn’t really what any of his things are. If you do know his work already, it is probably through the power of his rather avant-garde rather rewarding post metal band Kayo Dot, or before that…
Today’s Organ Thing of The Day is a taste or two of a rather beautiful EP called ‘Come Back When There’s Nothing Left’ by Brighton-based musician Nick Hudson, tracks that kind of act like teasers for his forthcoming album so we’re told. The album is called ‘Font of Human Fractures’ (his first LP in five…
Two things today, two very tasty slices of adventurous earfood… Toby Driver, he of Kayo Dot and such has just said “I have some solo shows abroad coming up soon”. The man who we last mentioned at the end of last year when he released and a tasty piece of epicness, has these dates coming…
Organ Thing of The Day: “I’ve just released a new song for the holidays” said Toby Driver, he of Kayo Dot and such, and indeed he has, N.G.H.4.M. is a bit of an epic, a rather beautiful one, well worth the mere dollar he’s asking you for the the quarter of an hour of delicate…
So you have three people who happen to be either current and former members of Kayo Dot, so that pretty much means your band is going to be pretty good in an off-kilter left-field other rock kind of way Right? Something new from Stern just came our way, the experimental band from Brooklyn featuring Toby…
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