“Chlorinate” Marcid (a review) by Dominic Zinampan In aspiring to coalesce shoegaze, dream pop, screamo, and grunge, Dumaguete-based Marcid occupies an increasingly broadening interstice of genres. In the course of twelve tracks, the four-piece, in their tour-de-force of a debut titled Chlorinate (2024), articulates and amalgamates altered states, inner turbulence, and ethereal soundscapes. Characteristic […]
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Review: “This is Not The Spoliarium” – The Spirals
Photo Credit: Dexter Duran A frustration exist. We are either the frustrated or the frustration itself. For The Spirals this isn’t black and white but a moral choice. To be one or the other is not a waving flag of good or bad. To be frustrated is human, to be a frustration to the powers […]
Review: “Venus” – Highway Seven Circus
Love is fickle, fleeting but honest through skin and bone. Or so “Venus” by Highway Seven Circus likes to tell it’s listeners. It’s fair to say that the “love song” is forever indispensable to music. Historically and thematically, love and music “go together like a horse and carriage”. Love as an abstract but almost universal […]
Review: “Counting Sheep” – The Pervs
The Pervs are a suffocating band. There is a claustrophobic atmosphere around their music. An autoerotic asphyxiating attack on the senses. You are verbally assaulted in a cubicle of a run down bar’s bathroom. Red indicator on the lock, occupied by all means. An oddly intimate encounter as you recall it. Like a tandoor oven, […]