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

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

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

Yellow Belly – Chaos Emeralds – The Orphaned Bee – Bonnie Trash – Collosloth – Venamoris – VARIOUS ARTISTS – Электронная Музыка АНС (ANS Electronic Music) – Satøri – album reviews

This week we give you another bunch of releases. Featuring Yellow Belly’s ‘deep, atmospheric music’. Chaos Emeralds and their ‘set of scuzzy emo gems’. The Orphaned Bees ‘Synth Rock with unusual beats, vocoders and guitars’. Bonnie Trash’s ‘sudden, swift dagger… Continue Reading

Tim Hecker – Parastatic – The Limiñanas – Emmaleen Tangleweed – The Bordellos (with Dee Claw) – Neon Kittens – Ryan James Mawbey -Winterwood – album reviews

Another week of reviews and music, Fighting Boredom give you our thoughts on Tim Hecker’s collection of electronic pieces originally written for various film and TV soundtracks. Parastatic with their album ‘inspired by their fascination with Brutalist architecture’. The Limiñanas… Continue Reading

Attrition – TORU – Wardruna – Anna B Savage – Edvard Graham Lewis – Weed Demon – Vamberator – RØRY – Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains – album reviews

This time in between listening to the biggies, Mogwai and FKA Twigs which I didn’t review as they have been reviewed everywhere and what’s been said is mostly what I thought anyway, inbetween listening to them I have been listening… Continue Reading

SCXLVR – Pocket Dimension – The Incidental Crack – Lee Ashcroft – Amongst Liars – Kiasmos – Hypnodrone Ensemble – Yomi Ship – Diuretic – Cockney Rejects – album reviews

Ten releases this time so it should keep you entertained for a while, this time Fighting Boredom gives you our views on SCXLVR where ‘distorted beats and dub bass collide with ambient layers, glitchy textures and ethereal tones’. The ‘mystery… Continue Reading