…a richly textured and fiercely innovative body of work that highlights both the individual artists’ talent and the power of creative collaboration. While each track has a decidedly unique world of its own, the album overall has a nuanced combination of ingenuity and rawness that makes it flow with intuitive coherence. - The Skinny
Hen Hoose is a songwriting collective funded by Creative Scotland based in Glasgow. It unites a rich and diverse array of wonderfully talented and award-winning female and non-binary artists, writers and producers collaborating on the creation of exciting new music across multiple genres. - Bandcamp
Nowt much for me today. A few reissues. Only new one is a single from Edinburgh’s current best live band, clearly aiming for winter anthem territory with a chorus of “World’s fucked, let’s all get cunted”.
He’s never had the most conventional voice, which he’s acknowledged. tbh, I’m not particularly a fan of pitch perfect voices in metal anyway. He did have throat cancer a couple of years ago which has affected him. Subsequently he now struggles with it and I think it’s partly a reason why he’s knocking him on the head.
Always interesting artist who never really ties himself down to one singluar sound. His album last year sounded like a soundtrack to an imaginary 70s cop film, this new one seems to be going down a Spiritual Jazz route. I’m only two tracks in but loving it so far.
Three from me, only managed 2-3 tracks of each so far, but it’ll be my afternoon listening:-
Backengrillen - Backengrillen - LP
Swedish free form death jazz. Rock drums, guitar hooks and loud sax, its fun stuff. Fave track: Socialism or Barbarism
VLADKO - Synergy - LP
Some jazz hip hop from Belgium. Not sure I liked the featuring tracks but not listened to it all yet. Fave Track: Free Walk
Take Me As I Am (Extended Mixes) - Dames Brown, Amp Fiddler - LP “Detroit’s powerhouse vocal trio Dames Brown — Athena Johnson, Teresa Marbury, and LaRae Starr — are set to release their long-awaited debut album, Take Me As I Am, on January 21, 2026, via Defected Records. The album stands as both a joyous celebration of Detroit’s musical heartbeat and a deeply personal tribute to their late mentor and producer, Amp Fiddler.” Solid funk with a fun disco beat. Fave Track: Sweat
It’s so hypnotic it’s ridiculous. Stoner Rock never made me feel stoned but this does.
Also there’s two tracks that clock in at under 4 minutes. Craven Faults has gone Pop!
French black/thrash. “With Aux Heures Désespérées, we are drawn into Black Metal infused with shades of Heavy Metal, Thrash, and grandiloquent tones, pulling us down into the depths.”
