Our Monthly Playlist selection of choice music and Choice Releases list from the last month.
We decided at the start of the year to change things a little with a reminder of not only our favourite tracks from the last month but also a list of choice albums too. This list includes both those releases we managed to feature and review on the site and those we just didn’t get the room for – time restraints and the sheer volume of submissions each month mean there are always those records that miss out on receiving a full review, and so we have added a number of these to both our playlist and releases list.
All entries in the Choice Releases list are displayed alphabetically. Meanwhile, our Monthly Playlist continues as normal with all the choice tracks from July taken either from reviews and pieces written by me – that’s Dominic Valvona – and Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea. Our resident Hip-Hop expert Matt Oliver has also put forward a smattering of crucial and highlighted tracks from the rap arena.
CHOICE RELEASES FROM THE LAST MONTH OR SO:
Alien Eyelid ‘Vinegar Hill’
(Tall Texan) Review
Darko The Super ‘Then I Turned Into A Perfect Smile’
Eamon The Destroyer ‘The Maker’s Quilt’
(Bearsuit Records) Review
Ike Goldman ‘Kiki Goldman In How I Learned To Sing For Statler And Waldorf’
The Good Ones ‘Rwanda Sings With Strings’
(Glitterbeat Records) Review
Headless Kross/Poundland ‘Split Album’
(Cruel Nature Records) Review
John Johanna ‘New Moon Pangs’
(Faith & Industry) Review
The Last Of The Lovely Days ‘No Public House Talk’
(Gare du Nord) Review
Lt. Headtrip & Steel Tipped Dove ‘Hostile Engineering’
(Fused Arrow Records) Review
Pharoah Sanders ‘Love Is Here – The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings’
(Transcendence Sounds)
SCHØØL ‘I Think My Life Has Been OK’
(GEOGRAPHIE) Review
Tom Skinner ‘Kaleidoscopic Visions’
(Brownswood/International Anthem) Review
Theravada ‘The Years We Have’
Ujif_notfound ‘Postulate’
(I Shall Sing Until My Country Is Free) Review
Visible Light ‘Songs For Eventide’
(Permaculture Media) Review
THE PLAYLIST::
Star Feminine Band ‘Mom’lo Siwaju’
A-F-R-O, Napoleon Da Legend, PULSE REACTION ‘Mr Fantastic’
Pharoah Sanders ‘Love Is Here (Part 1) (Live)’
Tom Skinner ‘Margaret Anne’
Holly Palmer & Jeff Parker ‘Metamorphosis (Capes Up!)’
Matt Bachmann ‘TIAGDTD’
Darko the Super, Andrew ‘The Bounce Back (Heaven Bound)’
Verb T, Vic Grimes ‘Anti-Stress’
Cymarshall Law, Ramson Badbonez ‘Emerald Tablet’
Datkid, Mylo Stone, BVA, Frenic ‘Poundland’
Verbz, Mr Slipz ‘What You Reckon?’
Theravada ‘Doobie’
The Expert, Buck 65 ‘What It Looks Like’
Lt Headtrip, Steel Tipped Dove ‘0 Days Since Last Accident’
Ujif Notfound ‘Postril’
Lael Neale ‘Some Bright Morning’
Alien Eyelid ‘Flys’
John Johanna ‘Justine’
Ike Goldman ‘Land Of Tomorrow’
Ananya Ashok ‘Little Voice’
Rezo ‘Nothing Else’
Howling Bells ‘Unbroken’
The Good Ones ‘Kirisitiyana Runs Around’
Jacqueline Tucci ‘Burning Out’
Dyr Faser ‘Control Of Us’
The Last Of The Lovely Days ‘Runaway’
Frog ‘SPANISH ARMANDA VAR. XV’
The Bordellos ‘The Village People In Disguise’
The Jack Rubies ‘Are We Being Recorded?’
The Beths ‘Ark Of The Covenant’
SCHOOL ‘N.S.M.L.Y.D’
Neon Kittens ‘Own Supply High’
ASSASSUN ‘The Sons Of The United Plague’
Pelts ‘Don’t Have To Look’
Visible Light ‘Purple Light’
Wayku ‘Suchiche’
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Our Monthly Playlist selection of choice music and Choice Releases list from the last month.
We decided at the start of the year to change things a little with a reminder of not only our favourite tracks from the last month, but also a list of choice albums too. This list includes both those releases we managed to feature and review on the site and those we just didn’t get the time or room for – time restraints and the sheer volume of submissions each month mean there are always those releases that miss out on receiving a full review, and so we have added a number to both our playlist and list.
All entries in the Choice Releases list are displayed alphabetically.
Meanwhile, our Monthly Playlist continues as normal, with all the choice tracks from June taken either from reviews and pieces written by me – that’s Dominic Valvona – or Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea. Our resident Hip-Hop expert Matt Oliver has also put forward a smattering of crucial and highlighted tracks from the rap arena.
CHOICE RELEASES FROM THE LAST MONTH OR SO:
Armstrong ‘Handicrafts’
Review
Audio Obscura ‘As Long As Gravity Persists On Holding Me to This Earth’
Review
Francis Bebey ‘The African Seven Edits’
Jeff Bird ‘Ordo Virtutum: Jeff Bird Plays Hildegard von Bingen, Vol 2’
(Six Degrees Records) Review
Che`Noir ‘The Color Chocolate 2’
Dave Clarkson ‘Was Life Sweeter?’
(Cavendish House) Review
Half Naked Shrunken Heads ‘Let’s Build A Boy’
(Metal Postcard Records) Review
Novelistme ‘Fabulous Nonsense’
Review
Nowaah The Flood ‘Mergers And Acquisitions’
Luiz Ser Eu ‘Sarja’
(Phantom Limb)
Various ‘TUROŇ/AHUIZOTL’
(Swine Records w/ Fayuca Retumba) Review
Voodoo Drummer ‘HELLaS SPELL’
Review
The Wants ‘Bastard’
(STTT) Review
Warda ‘We Malo’
(WEWANTSOUNDS) Review
THE PLAYLIST
Bedd ‘Messed up Your Head’
Dragged Up ‘Clachan Dubh’
John Johanna ‘Seven Hunters’
Vlimmer ‘Gleichbau’
Heavenly ‘Portland Town’
Novelistme ‘I Want You Here’
Half Naked Shrunken Heads ‘Let’s Build A boy’
Juppe ‘Woozy’
Noura Mint Seymali ‘Guereh’
Francis Bebey ‘Agatha – Voilaaa Remix’
Anton de Bruin & Fanni Zahar ‘Running On Slippers’
Chairman Maf ‘Wild Turkey’
Lord Olo & TELEVANGEL ‘BEAT EM!”
Masta Killa Ft. Raekwon & Cappadonna ‘Eagle Claw’
Aesop Rock ‘Movie Night’
Oddisee ‘Natural Selection’
Nowaah The Flood ‘Protocol’
Ello Sun ‘River’
Luiz Ser Eu ‘O Sol Nas Suas Pestanas, Adora’
Elena Baklava ‘Kamber’
Jason van Wyk ‘Remnants’
Mary Sue & Clementi Sound Appreciation Club ‘Horse Acupuncture’
Evidence ‘Different Phases’
Vesna Pisarovic ft. Noël Akchoté, Tony Buck, Greg Cohen, Axel Dörner ‘Vrbas vodo, što se često mutiš?’
Itchy-O ‘Phenex’
Tom Caruana Ft. Dynas ‘Aisle 9’
C-Red & Agent M ‘Godspeed’
Scienze & NappyHIGH Ft. Benny The Butcher and Elaquent ‘Capt. Kirk’
Charles Edison ‘No Love Lost’
Parallel Thought & Defcee ‘Graduation Picture’
Fashawn & Marc Spano Ft. Blu ‘No Comply’
Che Noir ‘Blink Twice’
Saadi ‘Homo sapiens’
Charlie Hannah ‘St. Gregor the Good’
HighSchool ‘149’
Swansea Sound ‘Oasis v Blur’
The Wants ‘Data Tumor’
Tigray Tears ‘Wishing for Peaceful Times to Return’
Jeff Bird ‘Shining White Lillies’
The Good Ones ‘Agnes Dreams of Being an Artist’
Briana Marela ‘Value’
The Still Brothers & Vermin the Villain ‘Alright’
LMNO & D-Styles ‘Best to Lay Low’
The High & Mighty Ft. Breeze Brewin ‘Super Sound’
Slick Rick & Nas ‘Documents’
If you’ve enjoyed this selection, the writing, or been led down a rabbit hole into new musical terrains of aural pleasure, and if you can, then you can now show your appreciation by keeping the Monolith Cocktail afloat by donating via Ko-Fi.
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Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea’s Reviews Roundup – Instant Reactions
ALL ENTRIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Dr Strangely Strange ‘Anti -Inflammatory’
Album (Think Like A Key) 12th March 2025
Anti-Inflammatory is the first new album from Dr Strangely Strange in decades, and it’s a bit of a beauty it must be said.
Ten songs of their own wonderful mixture of folk, Baroque pop and psych, and is at times extremely touching songs that deal with looking back on life and mortality but with a melancholy smile on its face. “Like Water Like Wind” is a simple and touching ballad worthy of Dylan, and the three instrumentals on the album are woven with a strange and magical inner calmness/serenity that one doesn’t have the pleasure to come across that often.
Dr Strangely Strange are now aged in their eighties and goes to show that both class and talent are two things that don’t wither with time.
Nick Frater ‘Oh Contraire!’
Album 28th February 2025
What we have here is a bit of a pop masterpiece. “Oh Contraire!” mixes baroque pop with sunshine pop and a healthy dose of late 70s power pop and early 80s New Wave, wrapped in a wonderful 70s radio friendly sheen. One could easily imagine any of these wonderful nuggets of pop emerging from your transistor radio on a hot summer’s day in 1976, or any year since.
Nick Frater is a quite wonderful songwriter and a melodian extreme. The twin guitar solo frenzy and fills and frills on “I Know you Know I Know” is worthy of Thin Lizzy at their finest, on a song that sounds like Bad Company covering the Knack (or vice versa) but is a gem of radio pop/rock glory. “Seraphim Called” brings to mind the wonderful Gilbert O Sullivan, Andrew Gold and Dean Friedman; “One Minute” is a fine old-style FM/AM pop rocker, and “All Roads Lead To Home” is a beautiful McCartney-like piano ballad. The whole album is an exercise in demonstrating the beauty and song crafting skill of Nick Frater, and an album that celebrates the magic of the pop song.
Honor Saint Williams ‘London Metal’
EP (Bour Records)
As everyone who reads this monthly outpouring of my ramblings about the new music that I get sent to pontificate poorly about knows, I have a soft spot for DIY lo-fi folk ramblings. And by rights I should really like this. In fact, I more than like it, I love it. I know I’m beginning to sound like Louie Walsh after spotting a banana in the lead singers of a boy bands pocket and kidding himself that he is just pleased to see him, but this is rather lovely. It has all the ingredients of what makes lo-fi alt folk so great and that is songwriting talent: “pissing on the fire in your eyes” is a fine line, and can be found on my favourite track on this fine EP. All four tracks are excellent lovely DIY lo-fi and makes this an EP that I wish was an LP, and one I had in my collection.
Takuro Okada ‘The Near End, The Dark Night, The Country Line’
Album (Temporal Drift) 7th March 2025
This is the first album by Takuro Okada outside his own country of Japan, and one wonders why when an album such as “The Near End, The Dark Night, The Country Line” is so beautiful and comes like a breath of fresh air when spending an hour or so sifting through the oh so similar and unexciting power pop, indie rock that is currently clocking up my email inbox.
Takuro had an amazing skill of crafting gentle beguiling jazzy songs/instrumental pieces with just that touch of invention. The subtle fuzz/distorted guitar on the wonderful shimmering “Shadow” is simply mesmerising. There is a beauty and experimental flair at work that one does not come across every day; jazz, field music and ambient works combine to make this collection such a deep and rewarding listen.
Andrew Rumsey ‘Collodion’
Album (Gard du Nord) 28th February 2025
“Collodion” is a rather beautiful album indeed. Nine short well written acoustic pastoral folk tinged songs. Yes pastoral folk by a paster, or Bishop in this case, for Andrew Rumsey is indeed the Bishop of Ramsbury: whatever next?! Anyway, it is a fine album of love, life, hope and regret.
The whole album lasts less than 20 minutes, and if you want to spend an hour or so relaxing just listen to it three times in a row. It’s not an album you can get bored of, as a well written song is a thing one can never grow tired of, and Collodion is full of them.
Schizo Fun Addict ‘An Introduction To…’
Album (Fruits der Mer Records)
There are bands that light up your life; bands that enforce the knowledge that music is the greatest of arts; bands that bewitch and beguile you with a God given majesty; bands that can turn your stomach into twisted knots of excitement and just as easily untwist them with a calming ease. Schizo Fun Addict are one of these bands. I should write groups, for I’m old enough to remember when people used to ask who is your favourite group, and you would reply, The Beatles or The Beach Boys or The Smiths or The Kinks. I mention this as Schizo Fun Addict are worthy to be mentioned in the same breath as all of those classic groups.
Just listen to the guitar chiming timbre of “Fate Chaser”, you are whisked away to the golden hills and valleys of the Canyon in LA in the days before Charles Manson cast his shadow of evil. Or the pop sussed magic of the Schizo’s version of “In The Long Run”, a song that proves nothing is impossible, for as perfect as the original version is by The Carrie Nations from the Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls film, Schizo Fun Addict somehow manage trump it and make the perfect pop song even more perfect. And to prove that this is no fluke they do the same with The Mamas And Papas classic “Dedicated To The One I Love”, a song they smother in a pure heavenly warmth.
This thirty-seven-track compilation, An Introduction To Schizo Fun Addict, is an album that is a must have for any serious music lover: whether you are already a fan of the band and lucky enough to have their mostly released on ltd vinyl back catalogue or never have been lucky enough to hear or own any of their releases. If you are the latter: well welcome to the sound of your new favourite band; in an ideal world a band that be played on a daily basis on the biggest radio stations around the globe and would make the world seem that bit more special a more magical place to be.
Russ Spence ‘Phase Myself’
Album (Metal Postcard Records) 27th January 2025
I really like this album; it reminds me of what Squeeze would sound like if Chris Difford sang all the songs and had been shot from a cannon to a planet where Bowie’s Scary Monsters album is performed on a daily basis by law to people who eat their cabbage with a plastic fork and wear ill-fitting satin flares with just enough tightness around the crotch. For the power of Russ Spence’s mind and thoughts is a strange and wonderous thing.
Russ is of course lead vocalist with the marvellous Salem Trials, and this album occasionally drifts into the Trials territory as Andy Goz from the band features on guitar on some tracks: “Yeah God” especially. This is the kind of album one can imagine developing into a bit of a cult album over the years; it has the aura of a cult album one that will not be played on radio or written about but will be stumbled over and raved about by those who hear it in the oncoming years – a little like Russ’ namesake Skip Spence and his mighty OAR album -; and will inspire more future artist’s to try and capture their own brand of madness and smother it with super market brand brown sauce.
Hi, my name is Dominic Valvona and I’m the Founder of the music/culture blog monolithcocktail.com For the last ten years both me and the MC team have featured and supported music, musicians and labels we love across genres from around the world: ones that we think you’ll want to know about. No content on the site is paid for or sponsored, and we only feature artists we have genuine respect for /love or interest in. If you enjoy our reviews (and we often write long, thoughtful ones), found a new artist you admire or if we have featured you or artists you represent and would like to say thanks or show support, than you can now buy us a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/monolithcocktail
The End of the Month Revue: Playlist & Choice Album Releases
January 30, 2025
THE MONTHLY PLAYLIST SELECTION PLUS A NEW FEATURE IN WHICH WE CHOOSE OUR CHOICE ALBUMS FROM THE LAST MONTH.
Something a little different for 2025: a monthly review of all the best music plus a selection of the Monolith Cocktail team’s choice albums. Chosen this month by Dominic Valvona and Matt Oliver from January’s post.
The 32 tunes for January 2025:
Noémi Büchi ‘Gesticulate Elastically’
Cumsleg Borenail ‘Topological Hausdorff Emotional Open Sets’
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets ‘March on for Pax Ramona’
Hifiklub & Brianna Tong ‘Angelfood’
Divorce ‘Pill’
Trinka ‘Navega’
Gnonnas Pedro and His Dadjes Band ‘Tu Es Tout Seul’
Rezo ‘Molotov – The Sebastian Reynolds Remix’
The Winter Journey ‘Words First’
Saba Alizadeh ‘Plain of the Free’
Miles Cooke & Defcee ‘zugzwang’
Eric the Red & Leaf Dog ‘Duck and Dive’
Harry Shotta ‘It Wasn’t Easy’
Kid Acne, Spectacular Diagnostics & King Kashmere ‘AHEAD OF THE CURVE’
Damon Locks ‘Holding the Dawn in Place (Beyond Part 2)’
Talib Kweli & J. Rawls ‘Native Sons’
Emily Mikesell & Kate Campbell Strauss ‘Recipes’
Ghazi Faisal Al-Mulaifi & Boom.Diwan ‘Utviklingssang – Live’
Nyron Higor ‘Me Vestir De Voce’
Ike Goldman ‘Bowling Green’
Elea Calvet ‘Filthy Lucre’
Expose ‘Glue’
Neon Kittens ‘Enough of You’
Occult Character ‘Tech Hype’
Dyr Faser ‘Physical Saver’
Russ Spence ‘Phase Myself’
The Penrose Web ‘Hexapod Scene’
Park Jiha ‘Water Moon’
Robert Farrugia ‘Ballottra’
Memory Scale ‘Afternoon’s Echoes’
Joona Toivanen Trio ‘Horizons’
Timo Lassy Trio ‘Moves – Live’
Choice Albums, thus far in 2025
So, for an age I’ve been uneasy with the site’s end of year lists: our choice albums of the entire year posts, which usually take up two or three posts worth, such is the abundance of releases we cover in a year. I’ve decided to pretty much scrape them going forward. Instead, each month I will pick out several albums we’ve raved about, plus those we didn’t get time to review but think you should take as granted approved by the Monolith Cocktail team. Some of these will not be included in the above playlist. Each album is listed alphabetically as I hate those numerical voting validation lists that our rivals put out.
Cindy ‘Saw It All Demos’ (Paisley Shirt Records)
Reviewed by Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea here
Cumsleg Borenail ‘A Divorced 46 Year old DJ From Scunthorpe’
Picked by Dominic Valvona
Dyr Faser ‘Falling Stereos’
Picked by Dominic Valvona
Expose ‘ETC’ (Qunidi)
Reviewed by BBS here
Farrugia, Robert ‘Natura Maltija’ (Phantom Limb/Kewn Records)
Reviewed by DV here
Kweli, Talib & J Rawls ‘The Confidence Of Knowing’
Picked by Matt Oliver & DV
Locks, Damon ‘List Of Demands’ (International Anthem)
Reviewed by DV here
Mikesell, Emily & Kate Campbell Strauss ‘Give Way’ (Ears & Eyes Records)
Reviewed by DV here
Occult Character ‘Next Year’s Model’ (Metal Postcard Records)
Picked by DV
Philips Arts Foundation, Lucy ‘I’m Not A Fucking Metronome’
Reviewed by BBS here
Toivanen Trio, Joona ‘Gravity’ (We Jazz)
Reviewed by DV here
Winter Journey, The ‘Graceful Consolations’ (Turning Circle)
Reviewed by DV here
ZD Grafters ‘Three Little Birds’
Reviewed by DV here – technically released digitally the end of last year, but vinyl arriving sometime in February
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Our Daily Bread 632: Hornorkesteret, The Muldoons, The Salisman Communal Orchestration…
November 18, 2024
BRIAN ‘BORDELLO’ SHEA’S REVIEWS ROUNDUP – INSTANT REACTIONS.
The Conspiracy ‘Tick-Tok’
Single (Metal Postcard Records)
What I like about The Conspiracy is how bloody artfully British they are, like the Kinks or The Fall or Billy Childish or Comet Gain or the much-ignored Wonky Alice were artfully British. In fact, very much like Wonky Alice as The Conspiracy, like the aforementioned Wonky Alice, are criminally ignored, for The Conspiracy release songs of pop wonder that are maybe too clever to appeal to the common everyday white bread and I cannot believe it is not butter Oasis indie rock salivating radio X listening imbeciles.
Yes, The Conspiracy release songs filled with art pop and sublime arched melodies matched with pithy knowing lyrical commentaries on life today. They should be celebrated not locked away like the hidden treasure they truly are.
Empty House ‘Dream Lounge’
Album (Cruel Nature Records) 29th November 2024
Dream Lounge is a two-track instrumental album of pure dream inspiring glory. The first track, and title-track, is a 15 plus minute journey of subtle dance dream adventure that at no point ever grows boring and keeps you enrapt. It has the same hazy magic as The Smiths How Soon Is Now but with Morrissey’s vocals being replaced with Doug Ingle like organ virtuosity subtly weaving its way in and out of the track.
The Second track “Red Door” is a much more subtly rambunctious affair with throbbing synth bass and John Carpenter like soundtrack feel if written by Coil, and once again a long instrumental that never loses your attention.
Hornorkesteret ‘Dans fra dalstrøka’
Album (Panot)
This is marvellously unhinged. Its instrumental Norwegian folk music performed on string instruments made from Reindeer antlers accompanied by percussion, bass and mandolin: need I say more.
Well, it is all rather strange and quite wonderful and best described as ideal music for sploshing through snow to whilst making your way to the tavern over the hill. At times I keep expecting the dulcet deranged vocal stylings of Tom Waites to emerge; he really should consider making an album with Hornorkesteret,it would be rather beautiful indeed.
The Muldoons ‘We Saw The View’
Album (Last Night From Glasgow) 29th November 2024
Guitar pop jangle, don’t you just love it. I do when it is the coating to such bittersweet songs as these; songs that deal with life as you move on from your younger years of your early twenties of college and the excitement of first love to the problems that come with responsibilities. The boredom that can happen and slowly growing apart in a long-term relationship (“27 Year Itch”), the lack of joy in fulltime employment (“Same Old Same”), looking back at what could have been (“The Hill”), all subjects done with a warmth and melodious guitar strum. All is not lost though, “Lost Without You” is a song of true love and respect, and “We Saw The View” is a heartwarming and enjoyable listening of extremely well written snapshots of life wrapped in a pop glory the Pale Fountains and The Trashcan Sinatra’s would be proud of.
St James Infirmary ‘All Will Be Well’
Album (Cruel Nature Records) 29th November 2024
All Will Be Well is an album made up of six long tracks of psych-tinged extravagance and 60’s ambience beauty that will appeal to all those who enjoy the Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Velvets and their ilk. The opening track “Fingertips” is a seven-minute jaunt of Velvet Underground-like inspired beat and guitars, which finely carries into track two, the excellently named “Tremelo Voxstar”.
My favourite track on the album is a nine-minute instrumental of wonder, part Spacemen 3 part The Lounge Orchestra, a relaxing float through the nostalgia of 70’s TV testcard heaven.
The final and title track is over ten minutes long and starts all psych folk and ends up being a church like ode to heavenly discovery and cultdom. All Will Be Well is indeed a beautiful and lovely sounding album of bewitching subtle musical genre shifting originality.
The Salisman Communal Orchestration ‘A Queen Among Clods’
Album (Cruel Nature Records) 29th November 2024
If I remember correctly I gave The Salisman Communal Orchestration’s “Of The Desert “ EP a rather marvellous review earlier in the year, and rightly so as it was a fine beast of a EP. And this album is also of the same quality.
I love the psychedelic otherworldliness of SCO. I love the way the lead vocalist phrases his words. He sings with the soul of an sad imperfect empathetic angel, you actually believe in what he is saying, “[If I Wasn’t ]So Godam Blue” is so goddamn beautiful, and with some pretty wonderful lyrics: “remember those days when I pissed in the street, well that is not my style anymore”. Pure heartbreak poetry at its best. The following track “Rum Punch” is as equally beautiful, a psych country-tinged beauty full of sadness and pathos.
I really do love this album SCO have the perfect blend of magic and tragic, and “A Queen Among Clods” is defiantly one of the most impressive and heartfelt original sounding albums I have had the pleasure to write about this year. A true stunner.
SASSYHIYA ‘Take You Somewhere’
Album (Skep Wax Records)
“Take You Somewhere” is a rather wonderful pop listen. 12 songs in 35 Minutes and each minute blessed with a charm of post-punk indie pop magic that is quite lovely to behold.
For those who love the sound and feel of the output of the likes of the Fall and early Orange Juice and The Raincoats and Modern Lovers. Jangly guitars, post-punk basslines and quirky lyrics are all wrapped together to make a highly enjoyable album of perfect indie pop. SASSYHIYA have provided us the lucky listeners with a debut album of pure pop suss.
The South Hill Experiment ‘Silver Bullet’
Single
“Silver Bullet” is a rather fine pop single. Quite Beck like at times, it’s all clockwork rhythms and mantra choruses: “I think I’m getting over it” is repeated hoping to convince the poor soul that he is getting over, although obviously not, but the simple beauty of this song is in fact the simple beauty of “it”.
The South Hill Experiment have the same magic that can be found in the best of Hall & Oates, but with a slightly more alternative darker curve.
Tremendous ‘Slipping Away’
Single 13th December 2024
“Slipping Away” is a rather catchy slice of FM/AM pop rock that one of a certain age might remember lighting up the radio in the 70’s early 80’s, all Raspberries guitars and the second-hand glamour of hi heeled glitter boots floppy hats and velvet trousers. Tremendous are a band steeped in the nostalgic pull of how slightly underground mainstream rock sounded, arching the same bow as Redd Kross and The Darkness and doing it with a supreme confidence and love.
Unicorn ‘Shed No Tear The Early Late Unicorn’
Album (Think Like A Key) 6th December 2024
“Shed No Tear The Early Late Unicorn” is a compilation of the first and final recordings of the 60/ 70’s British Pastoral rock band Unicorn, and any lovers of country rock will no doubt love this fine laid back stroll through the British countryside. The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Eagles and even at times Crosby Stills Nash and Young and The Byrds in more of their country days all spring to mind when listening to these lovely warm sounding laid back well written songs of soft rock excellence.
Without sounding like a Ronco advert from the 70’s “Shed No Tear” may well be an ideal Christmas gift for your Eagles loving relative, for country rock is for life not just for Christmas.
The Monthly Playlist for October 2024
October 31, 2024
CHOICE MUSIC FROM THE LAST MONTH ON THE MONOLITH COCKTAIL: TEAM EFFORT
The Monthly Revue for October 2024: Sixty choice tracks from the last month, chosen by Dominic Valvona, Matt ‘Rap Control’ Oliver and Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea. Features a real shake up and mix of tracks we’ve both covered in our review columns and articles over the last month.
We’ve also added a smattering of tracks that we either didn’t get the room to feature or missed at the time. Covering many bases, expect to hear and discover new sounds, new artists. Consider this playlist the blog’s very own ideal radio show: no chatter, no gaps, no cosy nepotism.
tRaCkLiSt
Anna Butterss ‘Bishop’
Peter Evans w/ Petter Eldh and Jim Black ‘Fully Born’
Juga-Naut ‘Two Thousand’
Mark Ski & Katiah One ‘I’m A Gamer’
Hemlock Ernst & Icky Reels ‘Break Time/In The Factory’
The Eurosuite ‘Bagman’
Not My Good Arm ‘Let em burn’
TRAINNING + Ruth Goller ‘lineage’
SCHØØL ‘The End’
Cosmopaark ‘Olive Tree’
Sassyhiya ‘Boat Called Predator’
Paten Locke & Dillon ‘JustRockin’
Sadistik & Alla S. ‘Figure with Meat’
Philmore Greene ‘Money Over Vegas Story’
Habitat 617 & DJ Severe ‘Soundclash’
Mr Slipz, Vitamin G, Jehst & Farma G ‘The Internet’
Rev. Eddie James and Family ‘Jesus Will Fix It’
Khalab ‘I Need A Modem (Nihiloxica Remix)’
Distropical ‘Independent Cricket League’
Greentea Peng ‘TARDIS (hardest)’
Che Noir & Rapsody ‘Black Girl’
Exterior ‘Boreal (Edit)’
Elea Calvet ‘Don’t make me go’
Juanita Stein ‘Mother Natures Scorn’
The Tearless Life ‘Beyond the Thread the Spinners Span’
Newburg Radio Chorus ‘Stand Up for Jesus’
Donald Beaman ‘Old Universe’
Groupe Derhane ‘IIkmge Tillnam’
The Poppermost ‘I Don’t Want To Know’
The Armoires ‘Ridley & Me After the Apocalypse’
Mike Chillingworth ‘Friday The Thirteenth’
Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield ‘Saturn’
Niwel Tsumbu ‘Afrique Moderne’
Annarella and Django ‘Aduna Ak Asaman’
Alex Stolze ‘Tumult’
Violet Nox ‘Umbre’
Rhombus Index ‘Giiflora’
freddie Murphy & Chiara Lee ‘Terra Nova Part II’
Suumhow ‘E’
Cumsleg Borenail ‘Words Formed Around Swollen Gums Then Puked’
Yellow6 ‘Restart’
Max Jaffe ‘The Droopy’
Kungfoolish ‘Guns Down’
Skuff ‘Doozie’
Habitat 617, Lee Ramsay & Scorzayzee ‘The Settlement’
Sonnyjim, Giallo Point & Farma G ‘Exotic Cough’
Wish Master & Sonnyjim ‘Crème de la Crème’
Aidan Baker & Stefan Christhoff ‘Januar Pt.4’
Ex Norwegian & John Howard ‘What Are We Doing Here?’
The Junipers ‘While You Preside’
The Smashing Times ‘Mrs. Ladyships and The Cleanerhouse Boys’
Yaryu ‘Gandhara’
The Bordellos ‘I’m A Man’
Farma G & Jazz T ‘In Between The Lines’
The Expert & NAHreally ‘Sports!’
Wish Master, Kong The Artisan & Datkid ‘Masterpiece’
Jabee & Marv Won ‘Money Ain’t Everything’
Sparkz & Pitch 92 ‘Start And Show’
Clbrks & NickyDiesel ‘ADIOS’
Newburg Radio Chorus ‘Calvary’
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Our Daily Bread 628: The Armoires, The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness, Eurosuite, The Poppermost, Sassyhiya…
October 2, 2024
BRIAN ‘BORDELLO’ SHEA’S REVIEWS ROUNDUP – INSTANT REACTIONS.
The Armoires ‘Octoberland’
ALBUM (Big Stir Records) 11th October 2024
Octoberland is the second album from The Armoires, or should I call it the Sophomore release as they are American and they call it such over there in the USA, but as I am a cantankerous old northern git from the UK I will call it the second release. Yes, their second album, the follow up to their debut “Incognito”, which if I remember correctly was one of my albums of the year. And Octoberland is another fine album from the band.
What I like about The Armoires is the way they take their influences and meld them into sounding like The Armoires. They take Alt rock 60s jangle guitar and Folk and indie and AOR pop, Psych and country and mould it into a stew of great American beauty. Octoberland is the aural equivalent of spending a sunny autumn day walking in the park with your true love.
Beauty Stab ‘GUIDE/FRISK’
ALBUM
After a five plus year wait, we have the debut, and who knows, only album from the one time much tipped for big things Beauty Stab. An album filled with sex sleaze and glamour but with a healthy or unhealthy dose of darkness. Ten songs that mine electro/synth pop, Scary Monsters era Bowie and a touch of goth alongside the duo’s own genius layer of pop suss. If “Bring Me The Boy”, a gem of a synth/dance song and the first single from the album, in a remixed form, was released in the 80’s on a major label it would no doubt had been a top ten smash.
The sound and feel of eighties chart land I think has a big influence on Beauty Stab. They do share a name with ABC’s second album after all, and I can almost hear Martin Fry emote over the bass heavy synth pop funk of “Manic”.
“GUIDE/FRISK” is a wonderful and inventive crafted album that celebrates the joy and darkness and power that great pop music can bring to your life and really deserves to be heard by all.
Black Mirage ‘Black Mirage’
ALBUM (Inner Demons Records)
If John Carpenters Halloween was set in the midst of The Power of The Flower hippiedom of 1967 this fine debut album by Black Mirage could well be the soundtrack. A strummed and picked dulcimer emotes beautifully over some quite marvelous drones and whooshes of synth creating a quite beautiful and sometimes eerie montage of aural dulcitude. With Halloween soon approaching, and as the dark early Autumn nights move in, this could well be the ideal musical accompaniment for the rain tapping on your windowpane.
Black Wick ‘Video/Droned’
ALBUM (Ingrown Records)
“Video\Droned” is a 27-track album of computer game pop, found sound magic and tuneful and drifting synth mellow instrumental magic, with the odd [very odd] drone chucked in for good measure. There is something that it totally relaxing about putting on this long and rewarding album, and just closing your eyes and letting the music sooth you into a state of semi consciousness, taking in the experimental magic and letting it wash over you.
The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness ‘Dead Calm’
ALBUM (Bobo Integral Records)
The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness are a delightful sounding chiming guitar band. No more, no less, Dead Calm is an album that evokes the sounds of the three power pop B’s, The Byrds, The Beatles and Big Star, and is really an enjoyable listen. But what tears it apart from albums that plough the same jangle furrow is the quite sublime songwriting and lead vocals, which at times remind me if Teenage Fanclub had they decided to go in cahoots with Jackson Brown and record an album full of L.A. sunshine. A lovely pop album.
Eurosuite ‘Totally Fine’
ALBUM (Human Worth) 18th October 2024
Unhinged chaotic angry shouty music with a dark sense of humour still has a place in my life, even at my age I am so pleased to say. And “Totally Fine” by Eurosuite is all the above. It has a madness that brings to mind the much-missed Ceramic Hobs and Whitehouse, and at times The Sleaford Mods. And in 2024 we need a bit of anger to soundtrack these angry mixed up disturbing times. Eurosuite indeed do a fine job of supplying that soundtrack.
Kitchen Cynics & Margery Daw ‘As Those Gone Before’
ALBUM (Cruel Nature Records)
I admit I have a bit of a soft spot for weird, strange folk music, I put it down to watching too much Bagpuss and The Clangers as a toddler: wasn’t the 70’s a wonderful decade to be a child. So, this fine album of weird, strange folk songs is right down my summer pathway stroll of mischievous delight.
Kitchen Cynics & Margery Daw go from the childlike tales of the sinister folk whimsy “Christopher Tadpole” to the dark and cold clawing of “Mole Man“; if you wondered what story time at the nursery school on summer isle might sound like, these gems will answer your wonderings. “The Four Trains That Killed Me” and “Last Of The Little Lost Lambs” are both wonderfully John Cale like in the darkness and utter beauty as much as “Accused Isle” is like listening to a slightly deranged Pam Ayres on the old Radio Luxembourg via an old transister radio under the bed clothes in the darkest of nights [wasn’t the 70’s a wonderful decade to be a child]. “As Those Gone Before” is a true magical gem of off-kilter folk whimsy, an album of true eccentric magnificence.
Not My Good Arm ‘Coffee’
ALBUM
Who are Not My Good Arm I hear you ponder to yourself as you peruse this DFB [Damn Fine Blog]. Well our dear readers they are a DFB [Damn Fine Band] that hail from Leicester, I think, and are a five piece that produce a hell of a musicality charade.
They take Rock ‘n’ Roll, Ska, Punk and Soul and tie it up and skin it alive whilst berating it with the sort of political soulful joyful nous that hasn’t been heard or witnessed since the Mighty Dexy’s Midnight Runners held the Top Of The Pops viewers enrapt with their explosion of attitude and musical good taste back in the early 80’s. Yes indeed, Coffee is a Northern indie soulful romp of an album by a band that I can imagine being a hell of a good night out to watch and by the looks of it gig on a very regular basis. So, keep your eyes scanned as they may be coming to your locality soon. I understand you can pick up a copy of Coffee on CD from their gigs, as by the looks of it they’ve not yet updated their bandcamp: probably too busy putting the fun into funk.
The Poppermost ‘I Don’t Want To Know’
SINGLE
The Poppermost are back with another slice of retromania, another slice of ‘I cannot believe it was not recorded in the 60s’. Another fine single, yes indeed. “I Don’t Want To Know” has one wondering, “is this what it would have sounded like if Gilbert O Sullivan had for some reason hired the circa 1966 Kinks to back him”, on this just pre Psych pop frivolity that’s all backwards guitars and Beatle Boots. Another timeless gem.
Salisman Communal Orchestration ‘Of The Desert’
EP (Cruel Nature Records)
There is something quite mind swaying, something that exports brilliance about this EP. It is a wonderful experimental warm pop dance psych hybrid; like a 60’s garage band being dragged through a vacuum of all musicality that lies ahead in the future. It rocks and rolls like rock ought to roll, but very rarely does in this day and age. I love the way the singer sings “I don’t believe” on the second track “Precipice”, it makes me want to believe in the magic of life again. I love the heartwarming experimental cacophony of “Men Of The Desert” and the all-out beautiful psych of the final track “Friendly Beast”. A quite genius four track EP.
Sassyhiya ‘Boat Called Predator’
SINGLE (Skep Wax)
The lovely sound of rocking indie pop is alive and well it seems with this really, quite catchy little ditty. What I love about it is it actually sounds like a single and not just a track that sounds like an album track released to appear on youtube and Spotify just to let people know that an album will soon be on its way. Yes, I am old fashioned; I remember when singles used to be commercial and released in hope of garnering radio play and such a song a milkman could whistle as he delivered a daily pint…yes, the good old days when a single was a single and not a seven-minute dirge of regret.
SCHØØL ‘The End’
SINGLE (Géographie)
“The End” is a bit of an indie rock toe tapper; yes, a song one can indeed tap their toes to or even somebody else’s toes if you have their permission. It’s the kind of song you might have heard on snub tv back in the day, all J Masics guitars and slacker vocals saying nothing in particular but still saying it with enough panache to tap your toes to [or somebody else’s]. I’m sure both indie kids and indie pensioners will enjoy the wrap around familiarity of this track.
Twile (featuring Laura Lehtola) “Hunger Moon”
ALBUM (Cruel Nature Records)
“Hunger Moon” is an album that combines folk, trip-hop, electronica and magic, and weaves together a tapestry of undiluted majestic swoonincity that has not been heard since the Portishead debut album “Dummy”.
Hunger Moon really does not put a foot out of place as it flows and hooks you into its warm strangeness, cradling you and sweeping you up to a safe place where dreams are free to play and cast shadows over your deepest thought and emotions. Eight tracks to soundtrack you as you come down from your highest high. Truly magnificent.
The Monthly Playlist For September 2024
September 30, 2024
CHOICE MUSIC FROM THE LAST MONTH ON THE MONOLITH COCKTAIL: TEAM EFFORT
The Monthly Revue for September 2024: Fifty choice tracks from the last month, chosen by Dominic Valvona, Matt ‘Rap Control’ Oliver and Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea. Features a real shake up and mix of tracks we’ve both covered in our review columns and articles. We’ve also added a smattering of tracks that we either didn’t get the room to feature or missed at the time. Covering many bases, expect to hear and discover new sounds, new artists. Consider this playlist the blog’s very own ideal radio show: no chatter, no gaps, no cosy nepotism.
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David Liebe Hart ‘James Earl Jones’
Mosik Rhymes & Tha God Fahim ‘E.S.P.’ – this month’s cover art
Seez Mics & Metermaids ‘Walter Wrong’
Kong The Artisan, Essa & Phat Kat ‘Get Nasty’
Etran de L’Air ‘Amidinine’
Carmen Souza ‘Amizadi’
Daniel Inzani ‘Beyond The Pale’
Zerrin ‘Spring Cleaning’
Black Artist Group ‘For Peace And Liberty Part 2’
Michal Urbaniak ‘UrbTrap’
AINON ‘Komorebi’
Derrero ‘Painting with Sound’
Neon Kittens ‘Lika Like’
SHITNOISE ‘Gum Opera’
The legless Crabs ‘Piercings And Tattoos’
I do You do Karate ‘Jabiru’
Cuushe ‘Faded Corners’
Inflatable Men ‘He’s Going Out With Marilyn’
Inre Kretsen Grupp & Prins Emanuel ‘Volta Semantron’
Phantom Handshakes ‘Dusk Enchanted’
Xeno & Oaklander ‘Via Negativa (in the doorway light)’
Beauty Stab ‘Use Me As Bait’
Wings Of Desire ‘OTTAMYMIND’
Nonpareils ‘Bring It On’
Short Fuze & 4Most ‘3AM Thoughts’
Desert Camo, Heather Grey & Oliver the 2nd ‘Sun Lord Mixtape’
leisure fm ‘illuminated manuscript’
Ghostwriter ‘Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down’
Elea Calvet ‘Trigger – Acoustic’
Holy Matter ‘The Dove’
Trust Fund ‘The Mirror’
Christopher Haddow ‘Look Homeward’
John Howard ‘Great Horse’
Minarets of Nessef ‘Instrumental’
Daniilaioi Brotherhood Choir ‘Christos Anesti, Mode Plagal A’
Umlaut ‘Gaze back into you’
Anja Ngozi & OKI ‘Utanobori’
Will Lawton and the Alchemists ‘Fossils of the Mind – Sebastian Reynolds Rework’
The New Tigers ‘Saba’
Viktor Ori ‘Vsetci sme v tom spolu’
Banca De Gaia ‘Electric Sheep’
Tanya Morgan, 6th Sense & Rob Cave ‘The Motion’
The Doppelgangaz ‘W.I.T.H.H.’
Xray & Monsta Island Czars ‘Evacuate The Club’
Jon Phonics ‘U JUST A LYING ASS HOE’
Ant ‘4-Track Beyond Beat 1996’
Leonard Charles ‘Rose’
Dr. Syntax & Pete Canon ‘Robot Problem’
Diamond D & KRS-One ‘THE KINGS’
Dead Players ‘Just Above Water’
The Monthly Playlist For July 2024
July 30, 2024
CHOICE MUSIC FROM THE LAST MONTH ON THE MONOLITH COCKTAIL:TEAM EFFORT
The Monthly Revue for July 2024: forty choice tracks chosen by Dominic Valvona, Matt ‘Rap Control’ Oliver and Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea. Features a real shake up and mix of tracks we’ve both covered in our reviews, and those we either didn’t get the room to feature or missed at the time.
____/THOSE TRACKS IN FULL ARE::::::
Penza Penza ‘Much Sharper, More Focused’
Party Dozen ‘Money & The Drugs’
Red Tory Yellow Tory ‘I Hate The Internet’
Kount Fif Ft. Pawz One & Jimmi Da Grunt ‘Cronos’
YUNGMORPHEUS & Alexander Spit ‘A Working Man’
Nicole Faux Naiv & Sunday’s Child 9 ‘Ocenas’
Dyr Faser ‘Are You Out There’
Hannah Mohan Ft. Lady Lamb ‘Hell’
New Starts ‘A Little Stone’
Cuuterz & Dubbul O ‘More Hype’
Lupe Fiasco ‘Til Eternity’
Pataka Boys (PAV4N, Sonnyjim, Kartik) ‘Brown Sauce’
Black Diamond ‘Lost Motion’
Ivan The Tolerable ‘A Hitch, A Scratch’
Dillion & Batsauce ‘Make History’
Previous Industries (Open Mike Eagle, Video Dave, STILL RIFT) ‘Montgomery Ward’
Doctor Zygote & Jam Baxter ‘All Air’
Mr. Key & Illinformed ‘All Right OK’
Common & Pete Rock ‘Lonesome’
Blu & Evidence ‘The Land’
Kid Acne ”95 Wild (Kista Remix)’
Fliptrix & Illinformed ‘Making Waves’
Luke Elliott ‘Land Soft’
Passepartout Duo & INOYAMALAND ‘Xiloteca’
Damian Dalla Torre ‘I Can Feel My Dreams’
Enrique Pinilla ‘Prisma’
Cumsleg Borenail ‘jˈuː fˈʌkɪn lˈa͡ɪ͡ɚ’
Society Of The Silver Cross ‘When You Know’
Myles Cochran Ft. Michelle Packman ‘The Stories We Tell Ourselves’
John Howard ‘I Am Not Gone’
Kevin Robertson ‘Subway Hold’
Rəhman Məmmədli ‘Uca Dağlar Başında’
The Legless Crabs ‘A Real True Man’
The Good Ones ‘Umuhoza, The Worst Days Are Over’
Bhutan Balladeers ‘The Day You Were Born’
Cody Yantis ‘Midland’
Floating World Pictures ‘Hearts Gates (Single Version)’
Miles Otto ‘SQ1 & Avalaunch Run’
Modern Silent Cinema ‘A Life Of Constant Aberration’
Jeff Bird Ft. Sam Cino ‘Peace Today, Peace Tomorrow’
The Monthly Playlist For June 2024
June 28, 2024
CHOICE TRACKS FROM THE LAST MONTH, CHOSEN BY DOMINIC VALVONA/MATT OLIVER/BRIAN ‘BORDELLO’ SHEA
That was the month that was: June 2024. Representing the last 30 days’ worth of reviews and recommendations on the Monolith Cocktail, the Monthly Playlist is our chance to take stock and pause as we remind our readers and followers of all the great music we’ve shared – with some choice tracks we didn’t get room or time to feature but added anyway. Thanks to Dominic Valvona for curating, and for choices from Matt ‘Rap Control’ Oliver and Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea.
Homeboy Sandman ‘Win Win’
Pastense & Uncommon Nasa ‘The Ills’
Party Dozen ‘Wake In Might’
The Lazy Jesus ‘Smok’
Sis ‘Mother’s Grace’
Yea-Ming And The Rumours ‘Ruby’
Neutrals ‘The Iron That Never Swung’
Hungrytown ‘Another Year’
Herald ‘Hydrogen Tide’
PAV4N, Sonnyjim, Kartik, M.O.N.G.O., Pataka Boys ‘Bappi Lahiri’
Sans Soucis ‘If I Let A White Man Cut My Hair’
Fat Francis ‘BCMW’
The Bordellos ‘Tastes Like Summer’
Swiftumz ‘Fall Apart’
SCHOOL ‘N.S.M.L.Y.D’
E.L. Heath ‘Cambrian’
Beak> ‘The Seal’
Jennifer Touch ‘Shiver (Robert Johnson)’
Ocelot ‘Sun Silmillia’
L’etrangleuse ‘Les Pins’
QOA ‘LIPPIA ALBA’
Mark Trecka ‘Spirit Moves In An Arc’
Cas One ‘No Deer Hunter’
Bill Shakes ‘Don’t Be A Menace To Blackburn While Drinking White Lightning On A Council Estate’
Guilty Simpson, The Alchemist & Kong The Artisan ‘Giants Of The Fall’
Depf & JClean ‘Wasted’
Ivan The Tolerable ‘Cedars’
Charlie Kohlhase’s Explorers Club ‘Tetraktys’
Staple Jr. Singers ‘Walk Around Heaven’
Head Shoppe ‘Parque De Chapultepec’
The Nausea ‘Nil Inultum Remanebit’
Saccata Quartet ‘Oh OK’
Simon McCorry & Wodwo ‘By Spores’
Neuro…No Neuro ‘Story Time’
Cumsleg Borenail ‘Todays Facade For New Environment’
Joey Valence & Brae Ft. Danny Brown ‘PACKAPUNCH’
NightjaR Ft. Pruven, Vast Aire & Burgundy Blood ‘Piano Heights’
Your Old Droog ‘Roll Out’
Conway The Machine, Method Man, SK Da King & Flee Lord ‘Meth Back!’
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