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Brand new Birmingham-based label 3 Pin Recordings offer up a CD compilation limited to 300 deluxe copies, coming in a printed cloth bad and housed in a trigger case with a 16 page booklet. Don’t ask me what a trigger case is because my review came in a slipcase. Ooh, there’s some CDROM content […]

Remote Sound are a young band from the sunny Falkland Islands, led by songwriter Alastair Jackson and ably assisted by friends Sara, Tristan, Neil an Phil. This is a re-release of their debut CD, which sold out of its original run of 200 copies since February. This time around there’s a bonus track added on […]

FatCat usually release pretty interesting guitar based music, so it’s something of a surprise to hear this, a pretty straight up conventional rock record.
This is fairly patchy stuff, but when the Brighton based 4 piece get it right as they do on 3 or 4 tracks here, they deliver a blend of powerful riffing and […]

About two years ago I was persuaded to buy a 7″ rekkid split between two bands: the Lords of Nottingham and the Hey Colossus of Londonshire. Having witnessed both bands live but heard little recorded matter, I thought it could be a promising little number, especially as it was a debut by a new label […]

Hair Police ruuuules man! If you thought that Wolf Eyes show at Barden’s Boudoir was good last year, this is gonna utterly destroy the place. Mike Connelly from the ‘Police has been playing in Wolf Eyes the last load of tours, whilst the other dudes continually play with other cool people like Spencer Yeh in […]

I am running out of ways to say sorry. Sorry there is little new content, sorry we are so slow at reviewing records, sorry I am spending too much time playing Animal Crossing. I’M SORRY!
Reasons I have not been updating diskant:
1. It’s too hot!
My laptop is practically overheating and I am […]

This is some sweet, meek lower action from some apathetic Eastern ghosts, a real tube into your ears. Heavy strings mourn the passing of the eponymous Ankou, while a slight undercurrent keeps the whole misty stream alight. Kinda like Arvo Part drinking a big jug full of Godspeed mixed with honey, this is syrupy and […]

I’ve had a Nintendo DS for a few weeks now, and the first game I got for it was Animal Crossing. If you’re not familiar it, it’s a fun little free-form game in which you move into a rural village populated by anthropomorphic animals. There’s no set goal as such. You can […]

Half of Glockenspiel, Steve d’Enton, was once the drummer in Quickspace, and his new outfit’s music - as evidenced by this CD - explores similar areas, albeit with wildly different sonic results. A simplistic churn of melodic repetition binds each of the three tracks together, each being distinguished by a particular melodic flavour. Quickspace’s jittery, […]