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Lorelle Meets The Obsolete to play Chelmsford’s Hot Box

Post author By andy mcculloch
Post date October 31, 2025
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Even Butterflies Makes A Sound is delighted to announce that sonic pioneers Lorelle Meets The Obsolete will play Chelmsford’s Hot Box on Friday, 15 May 2026. The duo have just released their seventh LP, Corporal on Sonic Cathedral. Please purchase you tickets in advance here. The gig announcement comes hot on the heels of this […]

Tags A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed, Corporal, David Arscott, David Gooday, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, Nitzer Ebb, Sonic Cathedral, The White Gospel

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Japan noise merchants Qujaku UK tour

Post author By andy mcculloch
Post date August 13, 2025
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Qujaku bring their unique blend of avant-jazz, doom, heavy psychedelia, and much more to Chelmsford’s Hot Box next Wednesday, 20 August. The end-of-UK-tour support comes from local noiseniks The Trial. Head over to DICE FM to get you tickets by clicking here. Qujaku background Formed in 2013, the Japan experimental band are based in Hamamatsu. […]

Tags Hot Box Live Events, Powellophonics, So I Buried Records, The Trial

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Lael Neale is an Altogether Stranger

Post author By andy mcculloch
Post date May 18, 2025
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Altogether Stranger is the latest work from Omnichord-toting songwriter Lael Neale. This album is her third collaboration with producer Guy Blakeslee. It follows Star Eaters Delight (2023), which found a huge fan in the legend that is Iggy Pop. Neale, Virginia-born but California-resident, said: “In the course of writing this [new] record there was one song I […]

Tags Altogether Stranger, Drone, Guy Blakeslee, Iggy Pop, Lael Neale, Minimalist music, Omnichord, Star Eaters Delight, Sub Pop, The Trial

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Johnny Echols interview; Loop’s Robert Hampson pays tribute

Post author By andy mcculloch
Post date August 1, 2024
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I was delighted to interview Johnny Echols at the start of Love’s 2024 UK tour. A link is included in the article. Robert Hampson, of UK psych rockers Loop, explains why he loves the band so much.

Tags Arthur Lee, Baby Lemonade, Elektra, Five String Serenade, Forever Changes, Johnny Echols, Loop, Love, Mazzy Star, Robert Hampson, Spacemen 3

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Hidden View by Leaving – album review

Post author By iangriffiths65
Post date May 1, 2024
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Ian Griffiths. Ian was the founder and sole constant member of kult kosmische rockers Kontakte. Following the untimely death in 2020 of his band-mate Stuart Low, Ian released the band’s final recordings last year. You can read all about the painstaking and often painful process here. Below, Ian guest reviews Hidden View, the new LP […]

Tags Erasers, Leaving, Moon Glyph, Pouring Dream

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Kontakte: Finite Methodologies For Denouement

Post author By andy mcculloch
Post date October 22, 2023
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It was a real sliding doors moment. At the turn of the century, while walking down Portobello Road in London I passed a savagely hip hairdressers – Children of Vision – and on the spur of the moment decided to get a trim. As luck would have it, Ian Griffiths (founder and sole constant member […]