Musique Machine Reviews

From Musique Machine:

Highgate – Self Titled
Highgate are a 3 piece doom project from Kentucky USA and this self titled album is their first grim sonic vomit onto the world at large. The albums made up of one long 54 minute track that for the most part makes an impressive, inventive and rewardingly grim apocalyptic doom listening.

Gallon Drunk – From The Heart Of The Town
From the heart of the town is the 2nd album from London based Gallon Drunk and their mix of psychobilly, garage rock, surf, jazzy noir sound-scapes. Originally released in 1993- here it’s given a reissue with 8 great extra tracks adding on.

The Owl Service & Alison O’Donnell – The Fabric of Folk
Having been very taken with The Owl Service’s wonderful debut album A Garland of Song and its refreshing and rewarding take on English folk and folk/rock, I was very egger to hear this collaboration with Alison O’Donnell (of Irish prog-folk group Mellow Candle).

Suzuki Junzo – Pieces for Hidden Circles
Suzuki Junzo is a guitarist and vocalist known for his involvement in the Overhang Party, Miminokoto, Astral Travelling Unity, 20 Guilders, aside from his solo work and a couple of collaborative efforts. Pieces for Hidden Circles is volume 8 of Utech Records’ “Arc” series, a consistently high quality line of recordings, most of which are guitar oriented. Each of these releases are appointed with classy and beautifully printed photographs by Max Aguillera-Hellweg, and the concept of the series is for each artist to tie the music to the photography. The fact that there is a distinctive personality to each volume is what makes this series so intriguing and artistically complex.