Mark Stewart – The Near Jazz Experience – Jordfäst – PÔT-POT – VOLK SOUP – Basaltic Plateau – Smote – Vexations – Coroner – William Covert – Lemonheads – coldrain album reviews

It’s been a while coming but at long last there’s a new Fighting Boredom album reviews page. We listen to stuff and tell you what we think, hoping that at least one ir two of you will like them enough… Continue Reading

Mari Kattman – Rival Pack – The Black Watch – Caspar Brotzmann Massaker – qrauer & Tape Shifter – Score – Frankie Cosmos – Model Release – The Colour Of Madness – Thisquietarmy x otay:onii – Album Reviews

Following a behind the scenes major website change, lack of access and forgotten reset passwords Fighting Boredom is back! A brand new album reviews page is finally ready! Here’s what the various PR emails and oress releases said about the… Continue Reading

Superhooch – Warrior Pope – Lower Slaughter – Tavare – Orthodox – Fuzzriders – Agabus – Tan Cologne – Charlie Nieland – The Sick Man Of Europe – Jah Thomas & The Roots Radics – Electric Junk

On a cloudy Thursday Fighting Boredom gifts you another page of album reviews. You can read our thoughts below but first here’s the PR speak sent out with the releases, we give you Coventry’s own Superhooch who have moved ‘to… Continue Reading

Desolated – Birth(defects) – Sally Shapiro – CLAMM – Filalete – Beige Palace / Lo Egin – K Of ARC – Lush Worker – The Right Hand Is Doomed To Blacken – Vile Bees – Dez Dare – album reviews

This time around we give you, in the words of the bands PR divisions, ‘the pit-fuelling glory’ of Desolated.- Birth(defects) with their ‘uncompromising, raw, and deeply personal’ new album. Sally Shapiro who are ‘Taking inspiration from synthwave, italo disco, nudisco,… Continue Reading

Duke Keats – Messer Chups – Sextile – Ships In The Night – An Tóramh – Stiff Little Fingers – TVOD -Confessions of a Traitor – Youth Code – Steve Von Till – Cock Sparrer – album reviews

Another Fighting Boredom reviews page is here, catching up on May releases this time we have a nice selection of grooviness. I’ll let the bands PR departments speak for them in this introduction, you can see what we thought below.… Continue Reading

Little Annie – AR Guda – Greg Nieuwsma & Antonello Perfetto – Mien – Operation Suffocate – Julee Cruise – Jingle Jangle Morning – The 1960s U.S. Folk Rock Explosion – TIME! GENTLEMEN! Pub Rock Rhythm ‘N’ Grooves – Classic Cuts and Rarities 1974-1982 – Feel Good All Over – The Sunshot Singles 1972 – 1973 – Motor Psycho – Lux and Ivy Feel The Need For Speed – album reviews

On this Sunday’s reviews page from Fighting Boredom headquarters we bring you Little Annie with a collection that ‘features the cream of Little Annie’s collaborations with some of the greatest names in the ‘alternative’ music world’ AR Guda who ‘develops… Continue Reading

Bell Barrow – Mamalarky – Within Destruction – The Birthday Massacre – Face Yourself – King Kraken – Melvins – Various Artists – Motor City Is Burning – A Michigan Anthology 1965-1972 – album reviews

I thought I’d give you the best lines from the PR sheets sent with the albums on the reviews page this time, the words in inverted commas are not mine, but I get pages of this stuff every week so… Continue Reading

Fugue State – Buffet Lunch – Michael Grigoni and Pan•American – Chronepsis – Anika – Dalila Kayros – LA Witch – Various Artists – Middle Earth 1967-1969 – album reviews

On this lovely Sunday which of you are not on a diet like me you will have already made yourself sick on chocolate Fighting Boredom give you our latest bunch of record reviews, here’s what their PR people say they… Continue Reading

Jeffrey Lewis – Melondruie – Tibshelf – The Silent North – Washington Formica – IOM – Catapult Elpam – Pound Land – Sacred Paws – album reviews

This time on the ever effervescent reviews page I bring you, well acording to all the PRs anyway, the sounds of Jeffrey Lewis who ‘may forever be “a complete unknown” to the world at large, but those who know, know.… Continue Reading

Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends – Noisepicker – Euphrosyne – Various Artists – return to tomorrow- In the Ascendancy – The Jazz Avant-garde – XIXA – My Morning Jacket – Ghostsmoker – Bloodywood – Glazyhaze – Desire – Amammoth – album reviews

Today’s reviews on Fighting Boredom take in Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends with their ‘Spangle, and sass, small scale arena rock for smart alecks and malcontents.’ The ‘loud and abrasive’ Noisepicker. ‘Greek post-black/doom metal band’ Euphrosyne. Music from Ornette… Continue Reading