When the darkness gets loud and confrontational: I Ya Toyah's FEELINGS is a hard-edged industrial statement that turns the mirror on modern humanity — biting irony, unapologetic force — while Apology doubles down with crushing riffs and hypnotic grooves, blurring the line between justified pain and dangerous entitlement. Montreal's The City Gates' Chimera pulls you into a nocturnal landscape of post-punk urgency and shoegaze atmospherics — brooding rhythms meeting shimmering walls of sound — while Coma Beach's A Madman's Dream/Mind Descending fuses punk's feral bite with Beckett-fueled existential cold precision. som som offers lo-fi relief with moody verses exploding into noise-pop euphoria, and Taste Lips keeps the post-punk energy surging with upbeat riff-driven grit.
Dino DiMuro
LO FI ve
Five short experimental songs in the LO FI style I haven’t done for many years, intentionally or not!
Various Artists - Start-Track
START THE TRACK: VOL. IX
The ninth compilation for our indie music blog and label, start-track.com.
Dino DiMuro
Fill It Up With Regular
A mix of grungy lead guitars, wild proggy keyboard excursions and Beefheartian crunch.