Andrew Liles — Neither Precious Nor Noble

Some of the world will look at the periodic table and see dull rows of squares and letters, but others will see inspiration, looking to pull some chaos from its well ordered matrix. Andrew Liles is one that wanted to tap into these elements and let them sing. In Neither Precious Nor Noble, he focuses on twenty different metals, turning them into sound sources, and working his magic on them to create a really cool and very listenable collection of tracks. As each element has different properties from the next, so do the pieces on Precious, with no overlying sound or motif, the elements are interpreted on their own, individually.

Graveyard Witchcraft & Desecration Altar — Split

Here’s a wall noise split with a rather sacrilegious cover- featuring a perversely altered statue of the Virgin Mary. Featured are two thickly seared example of the wall form- one from Indiana-based Graveyard Witchcraft, and the other from South Carolina's Desecration Altar.

Silver Dove — No Such Thing As Love For…

No Such Thing As Love For… is a new around two hour release from Liverpool’s Silver Dove. It offers up a blend/ mix of hazy guitar drone/ ambience, walled/ textured noise, and dreamy/ abstract sound making.

Damien De Coene — Non-Stop Negative Enforcement

Non-Stop Negative Enforcement presents with two slabs of churning, grinding & weighty wall noise. If your familiar with the euro wall scene of say the 5 or so years, I’m sure you know Damien De Coene name- the Spanish based noise maker who has been behind such projects as, Charles Razeur, Verwelk, Renoffski, and more recently Dod Cathedral.

Mancunian low-budget Movie Mogul

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.

Repetitious History - A Quick Trip Into The World Of The Fall

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.