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New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain This March Reviewed By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner writes in praise of sticking together, plus new releases from Slum Of Legs, Noods and Handle
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Revenant Marquis

Youth In Ribbons

Noel Gardner finds his resolve tested by the mysterious Revenant Marquis
Punk

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Punk & Hardcore In Review For February

Noel Gardner is back with this month's best in punk, hardcore and OMFUG from around the globe. Home picture: Soakie live
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain In Review For January By Noel Gardner

Our chief New Weird Britain auger Noel Gardner gets busy with new cuts from Richard Skelton, GNOD, Lucy Gooch and a Black Country, New Road side project
Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner On The Best Punk & HC Of 2019

Our head Gardner is close to rounding off a decade of blazing Noel's Straight Hedge columns... but before that there's one last task for this year: rounding up ten of the best and the best of the rest when it comes to punk, HC &c.

Reviews

Croatian Amor & Varg2TM

Body Of Carbon / Fuck Varg

A collaboration between Croatian Amor of Copenhagen's Posh Isolation label and Varg2TM (formerly just 'Varg') plus a solo 12" by Varg all on his lonesome please the ears of Noel Gardner
Columns of the Year

New Weird Britain: Noel Gardner’s 2019 Round-Up

Noel Gardner looks back at the no audience but too many names DIY underground during 2019 and serves up his ten of the best and his ten of the rest
Punk

New Weird Britain In Review For November By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner looks the length and breadth of this island for music made or inspired by migrants and aided by those in other countries. Waqwaq Kingdom portrait by Marco Tinari
Punk

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Punk & Hardcore In Review For October

Noel Gardner is back once more with all that is belligerent, resonant, caustic and pummelling in the righteous world of punk, hardcore and beyond. (Those who hate metal should tread cautiously...) High Command portrait by Bill Shaner
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Black Cilice

Transfixion Of Spirits

The mysterious Black Cilice offer up more essential extremity, finds Noel Gardner
Reviews

Fire-Toolz

Field Whispers (Into The Crystal Palace)

Fire-Toolz' fifth album sounds like so many things that it ends up sounding like absolutely nothing on earth, finds Noel Gardner
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain This September Reviewed By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner returns with more music from the British fringes and notes from the UK underground
Album of the Week

High-Rise, Low-End: For You And I By Loraine James

Last year's Oram Awards winner Loraine James makes her debut on Hyperdub with a joyous blast of electronically generated melodies and spindizzy beats. Noel Gardner is suitably impressed
Reviews

Octo Octa

Resonant Body

With chunky basslines and heart-tugging synthesizers, Octo Octa's Resonant Body is one of the best dance LPs of recent times, finds Noel Gardner
Punk

Straight Hedge: Punk & HC Reviews For August By Noel Gardner

Why is everyone in everyone else's bands, asks Noel Gardner as he presents another smorgasbord of punk, oi, industrial, noise rock, hardcore and D-beat mayhem. Gauche portrait courtesy of Jen Dessinger
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Rắn Cạp Đuôi

Degradation

Inspired by Vietnam's monsoon season, Rắn Cạp Đuôi's Degradation has much to recommend it, finds Noel Gardner
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain This August Reviewed By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner is back again with Glaswegian synth prog punk, Heads spin off space rock, "Netto electrobass" and other transmissions from New Weird Britain
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Purple Mountains

Purple Mountains

Silver Jews' David Berman is back with his first new music for over a decade. Purple Mountains' eponymous debut is a fine and moving addition to his oeuvre, finds Noel Gardner
Punk

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Punk & Hardcore In Review For June

Noel Gardner gets to grips with the good, the bad and the ugly of international punk rock - from queer Mexican goths to anti-establishment Australian firebrands
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain This May Reviewed By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner trawls the abyssal depths of the UK underground and finds gems from avant industrial types Harrga and sweat juiced future rave from MCR-based producer LOFT
Reviews

Sote

Parallel Persia

Noel Gardner feels an impressive degree of futureshock on the latest album by Tehran based producer Sote
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Art Ensemble Of Chicago

We Are On The Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration

We Are On The Edge, a 50th anniversary celebration of the legendary Art Ensemble of Chicago is both a graceful tribute and a testament to these musicians’ questing vision, finds Noel Gardner
Punk

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Punk & Hardcore In Review For May

This month's selection of punk and hardcore and OMFUG is particularly spicy and trenchant... even by Noel Gardner's standards
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Michael O’Neill

The Binary Order

The debut album by Mancunian poet, musician and writer, Michael O’Neill takes a while to get on board with, but once you're there, you'll be richly rewarded, finds Noel Gardner
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain In Review For March

Back once again with the swell behaviour, Noel Gardner takes us on a whistle stop tour of the UK's best underground DIY sounds
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Rian Treanor

Ataxia

Rian Treanor's album ATAXIA may be conceptually rich but this remains a record built for bone-hard club systems and flailing limbs, finds Noel Gardner
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Drekka

No Tracks In The Snow

In Drekka's new album No Tracks in the Snow, Noel Gardner detects shades of Coil, Flying Saucer Attack, and Jandek
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Maja S. K. Ratkje

Sult

The latest from Maja Ratkje on Rune Grammofon combines euphoric vocal refrains with playful organ melodies
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Errant Monks

Psychopposition / The Limit Experience

In two new releases from Manchester's Errant Monks, Noel Gardner finds strong contenders for the UK underground’s top scorchers of 2019
Punk

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Your Punk & Hardcore Reviews For February

Noel Gardner says hello to Low Life, Drinking Boys And girls Choir and Muro, while saying farewell to Maximum RocknRoll...

New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain: January’s Most Wonderful UK Underground Releases

Acid house rolls, slop-fi instrumentals and untrammelled free-rock devastation: the year is looking juicy already, with Gum Takes Tooth, Business Dudes, Shrimp and plenty more

Album of the Week

A New World Being Born – Third Noise Principle: Formative North American Electronica 1975-1984

Following UK and European volumes, 60 left-of-the-dial electronic acts from 70s/80s North America, and another wildly enjoyable multi-disc compilation from veteran indie label turned licence maestros Cherry Red

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