Spectres – NostalgiaLabel: Artoffact Records – AOF358CDFormat: CD, Album, StereoCountry: CanadaReleased: Mar 13, 2020Style: Post-Punk Formed in Vancouver by vocalist and founder Brian Gustavson, SPECTRES is a DIY death-rock outfit that mixes post-punk, the ethic of anarcho-punk, and an incredible knack for writing catchy songs. The band released three independent albums (all reissued by Artoffact Records in 2019) and are ready to stun audiences with their 2020 release Nostalgia.Emerging from the DIY Punk underground, SPECTRES wanted to blend the grassroots and independent ethic of anarcho-punk with the anomie and cold, modulated sounds of 1980’s post-punk and death-rock genres. Though the band’s output has matured with time to embrace a wider…
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Spectres – Nothing To Nowhere
Spectres – Nothing To NowhereLabel: Artoffact Records – AOF356CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: CanadaReleased: 2018Style: Post-Punk, Punk Originally released in 2012 as a vinyl-only edition through Germany’s Sabotage Records (White Lung, G.L.O.S.S., Arctic Flowers), the second album from Vancouver post-punk darlings SPECTRES has never been released on CD. Finally, years after the initial vinyl pressing sold out, Toronto-based Artoffact Records breathes new life into this Canadian classic with a remastered CD edition.
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Khôrada – Salt
Rising from the ashes of Agalloch and Giant Squid, a new group is born: Khôrada.
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Ulver – Drone Activity
Ulver – Drone ActivityLabel: House of Mythology – HOM 018 LPFormat: CD AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 11 May 2019Style: Ambient It all happened in a haze. I am not sure everyone was prepared to obey the summons and forsake the shore in order to be pulled under by the loudness of sound. Yet the ethos on that crisp October night was clear in its wording: Drone Activity. Upon entering the old fish-warehouse, now converted into an activity hall, on the new Oslo waterfront, the security guards barely cared to check our tickets. Even mammoths would have been able to hide in this enormous dark space, illuminated by a few logos and stalls…
