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Earth's surface is roughly seventy-one percent water, and with our bodies being a little shy of that percentage as well, one can see why water is such a frequent source of artistic inspiration. Werner Dafeldecker and Lawrence English team up for their third release together, Fathom Tides, to investigate and explore costal environments, tides, and the cyclical changes found all over our vast world with the question in mind: "What impact do we have on the world we inhabit?" The seven pieces on Fathom Tides were all born from coastal field recordings by English which where then treated by Dafeldecker, along with his addition of some further electronics.
29 Apr 2026
King Futile is the new project from Scotland-based Lea Cummings( Kylie Minoise, Official Music Team, etc), and it’s a big departure from his normal noise or retro sample & electronica sound. It's lo-fi acoustic music, with an outsider feel, and often quite tongue-in-cheek/ sharply sarcastic tone to the lyrics. So far, the project has put out three albums- Casual Misery, How To Have Fun, and Zen As Fuck. I tracked down Lea for an email interview.
7 Apr 2026
His Motorbike, Her Island is a 1986 romantic drama from director Nobuhiko Obayashi (Hausu, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Labyrinth of Cinema) and based on the 1977 novel by Yoshio Kataoka. The film stars Kiwako Harada (Godzilla Vs King Ghidora, Yuwakusha and Hana’s Miso Soup), Noriko Watanabe (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Godzilla Tokyo S.O.S. and Tsumiki kuzushi), Riki Takeuchi (Dead or Alive, Battle Royale II: Requiem and Blood), Ryoichi Takayanagi (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Legend of the Eight Samurai and Bullet Train Explosion) and Takahiro Tamura (Tora! Tora! Tora!, Hoodlum Soldier and Seisaku’s Wife).
Released in the early 1990’s, Voices From Beyond was the penultimate film from Italian director Lucio Fulci. It was his 52nd feature film, and it found him returning to the more macabre, dream-focused and surreal feel of his early 80s pictures. with some very memorable set pieces, and moments of ffectively shocking gore. The film is a blend of how/who-done-it mystery, beyond-the-grave horror, and bickering/back-stabbing soapy 90’s drama. Here from those swell folks at Severin is a three-disc reissue of the film. Taking in a UHD, Blu-ray, and CD. It features a new 4k scan, over an hour of extras, and the film's soundtrack.
OONAGH HAINES — Not Not Pretending
25 Apr 2026Luis Tabuenca — Naturstudium III
24 Apr 2026Ying Wang — RE:Wilding
24 Apr 2026Scream Therapy — Scream Therapy(VOD)
24 Apr 2026Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns — A Blow for Me, a Toot To You
23 Apr 2026The Angel Guts box — The Angel Guts box(Blu Ray boxset)
23 Apr 2026The Nightcomers — The Nightcomers( UHD/ Blu Ray)
22 Apr 2026Desolus — Dwellers of the Twilight Void
22 Apr 2026
Cliff Twemlow On Severin
One of last year’s real big surprises in the world of Blu-ray box sets was Bloody Legend: The Complete Twemlow Collection, as it was a wholly entertaining, fascinating, and at times heart-warming set. The Severin released boxset brought together the work of one of the UK’s unlikeliest movie moguls- Cliff Twemlow, a Mancunian bouncer/ body builder, who went on to write/star in/produce a series of low-budget/ largely SOV films in the early 80s to early 90s- these moved between action, thriller, sci-fi, and horror. His most notable/notorious film was 1983’s G.B.H., which landed on the video nasty list, though he was connected to other ten feature films, many of which got their first real full/proper release on the boxset. Opening up the set was the excellent 2023 documentary Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow, which really pulls you into the set. I caught up with Severn’s David Gregory and Jake West, director of Mancunian Man, to discuss the boxset and all things cliff.
The Fall
MES( Mark E Smith- The Falls main creator) possessed the ability to cram phrases into impossible spaces - “I’m hunting and I’m trying to find” delivered as “hut’na tryna find”; the eight-syllable “mere pseud mag editor’s father” hastily squeezed into a manipulation of time and space, heralded by the prior line “twice each at least”, the latter naturally repeated thrice.
Crude ‘n’ Hope-corroding Walled Noise
Back in 2024, I got my first taste of Absurd Reality, and I was so impressed by how crude and nasty its take on walled noise was. Behind the project is South Carolina-based Krys Marshall, who also runs the Filthy Sounds Recording label. He’s since gone on to form No Fun HNW, which pushes the levels of nasty crudeness even more. Krys kindly agreed to an email interview.
Creepy Images Books
Of all the cult/exploitation genres, Giallo stands as one of the more visually & art-based- be it with the grand/ dramatic location, choreographed murder scenes, or great poster art. The focus of this interview is on the last of these three- looking at the two classy/ glossy full colour Giallo Posters books put out by Germany's Creepy Images. Below is an interview with Thorsten Benzel, one of the key minds behind the books. To date, there are two volumes, with a third coming next year.
