benfyffemusic has written the following articles:
Whatever the reason, Celestite makes sense.»
After two summers away, Sonisphere returns to the UK this July with a bill packed to the rafters with top draw metal and rock. Here are ten reasons why the event, which takes place from the 4th to 6th July at the legendary Knebworth Park (near Stevenage), is set to be one of the highlights of the 2014 festival summer…»
It doesn’t feel quite right that a band as vital as this embraced pop trends as readily as they did.»
Familiars lacks any real musical inventiveness.»
This is a band writing accessible, intelligent and passionate rock music of the highest order.»
It can be hard to keep up with the sheer quantity of new ambient records released each month...»
The continuing existence of this group is reason enough alone to believe in the exceptional potential of music.»
Only a quarter of the way through the year and there’s already a feast of fantastic new ambient records...»
Paints several shades of beauty on its minimalist canvas.»
More individuality might go a long way to making Echaskech stand out from the crowd on future releases.»
Ben Bland looks at a host of compilations courtesy of genre specialists All Saints Records...»
Máthair provides a pleasing addition to the Mothlite catalogue, and hopefully features ideas ripe for further exploration on a new full-length record.»
The culmination of a discography that has always been leading to this as its high point.»
Featuring Tim Hecker, Barn Owl, Ensemble Pearl and more.»
Proof that there are British bands crafting alternatively minded pop music without resorting to scene fads or dull retreads of Britpop’s worst farts.»
Dance music for the terminally pissed? A little bit (whisper) post-rock?»
For all the mysteriousness surrounding their origins and their creative process, and for all the lengthy hiatuses between records, the breadth of imagination the Sandison brothers have displayed over the course of their career to date extends far further than their love of vintage modular hardware occasionally suggests.»
Good ambient and drone music should succeed, first and foremost, in setting a mood; an atmosphere in which the listener is at once both distinctly part of and apart from the sounds they hear. The releases in this edition of Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds all do this, but in very different ways.»
Rendered clearer and yet more fragile by Frahm’s impeccable remastering job, listening to Float 2013 it's easier to understand why Erased Tapes have reissued this album.»
With Loud City Song, her third studio album proper, Julia Holter has created another brilliant record, but this time it seems more people are sitting up to take notice.»
While not a failure, Uncanney Valley isn’t the glorious comeback many were expecting.»
Unsound Festival began in Kraków in 2003 and now, after a decade of operation, the event, which has become something of a European experimental music institution, comes to London for four special nights of music. Having missed nights featuring Demdike Stare and Lustmord it’s off to the Forest Swords headlined night at Corsica Studios for DiS’s first taste of Unsound magic.»
Master is a record of real and rare magnificence.»
This is the pure sound of That Fucking Tank on stage, and you’d have to be a fool not to realise that this is where they belong.»
Some early impressions from the first listen to Pearl Jam's new album Lightning Bolt...»
Moon King’s failure is in neglecting to add more meat to the bones of their compositions, to truly back up their promise.»
It’s time to zone out in the ether once again, and gracefully gliding us into the realm of textural sound...»
A joining together of sounds and words that is almost amusical in its obstinate refusal to bend to structure or convention.»
Arguably the crucial difference between Pain is Beauty and earlier Chelsea Wolfe records is its consistency.»
On the surface there’s little to write home about, but before you know it Disappears have hooked and reeled you in.»
