01. Beach House - 36
02. Nudity - 35
03. Magic Wands - 31
04. Daywand - 27
05. Ty Segall - 21
06. A$AP Rocky - 18
06. Ty Segall & White Fence - 18
08. The Advisory Circle - 17
09. Cloud Nothings - 16
10. Black Bug - 15

1 – Never really got into Beach House before. I hear people say that Bloom is not as good as Teen Dream but I am liking Bloom and I never much felt like listening to Teen Dream. But that probably says more about me now than it does…

01. John Talabot - 105
02. Ectoplasm Girls - 44
03. Turbowolf - 40
04. Run DMT - 33
05. Clams Casino - 32
06. Pop. 1280 - 30
07. Total Control - 27
07. SPACEGHOSTPURRP RVIDER KLVN - 27
09. Cobalt - 15
09. Lanterns On The Lake - 15
09. Wild Nothing - 15

1 – Deep-house techno noise
2 – Swedish sister noise
3 – Hairy Bristol noise
4 – Waking dream noise
5 – Untouchable intangible noise
6 – Grey dystopian noise
7a – Australian superband noise
7b – Can't crowbar Noise into here
9a –…

Links and streams on the blog:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-ashan-to-return-to-inner-islands.html

Sean 'Gkfoes Vjgoaf' Conrad's side project Ashan follows up last years single track Peace of Joy album with four long pieces of meditative acoustic trance. Ashan differs to the Gkfoes material in being less concerned with the physical realm, instead submitting itself to themes of love, peace, emotional tranquility and transcendence. The album is inspired by the book Ashan: The Gentle Way, a spiritual tome about "The vibration of creation, of harmony, of unification, and of love." No matter how cynically you want to view these themes, Conrad's embracing of this…

Here for the blog:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/top-50-albums-of-2011.html

or here:

50. Civil Civic – Rules
Self-Released
Fan-funded debut release from London based duo that dropped a slew of incessantly addictive rock instrumentals from the abrasive to the euphoric with a playfulness that belied the serious talents behind the song-writing and musicianship. The tracks tended to cavort rather than progress across their brief lengths, with no piece out-playing its own enthusiasm, conveying infectious attitude in the spirit of people like the Pixies, Sonic Youth, Andrew WK and even a dash of The Smiths.

49.Tree of Sores - Tree of Sores…

full links, streams and video on the BLOG

Here's one of the most intriguing and exciting propositions to have emerged from my Brighton city in a while: Regal Safari. One pay through the three tracks on their Bandcamp will have you besieged by contemporary comparisons; the first ones that struck me were Balam Acab (or indeed, one side to the TriAngle sound that isn't shaded the colour of Witch House), Solar Bears, Caribou, Blondes, Worriedaboutsatan / Ghosting Season - lot's of dreamy and spacey artists who evoke elusive and somewhat intangible landscapes built of disembodied…

Iron Pirate is back from the dead! Download, stream and more links in the blog:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/download-album-preview-iron-pirate.html

After delivering a perverse and insanely brilliant self-titled 8-bit thrash metal album in 2008 (which you can download HERE with the full booklet artwork), a couple of squat party gigs and a show for NFR Live! he abruptly disappeared, leaving (or not) a deleted MySpace page and much speculation. Now, after years of silence the cosmic wanderer has returned with news of a follow up album titled Death of 7 Planets, a galactic saga on a grand scale involving the attacking and ultimate demise…

My most recent piece for Sonic Router went up recently- an interview with Scottish born, Berlin based techno pioneer Dalglish to complement his new album of granite toned electronic soundscaping Benacah Drann Deachd . It's quite a heavy one, as is the mix he sent in to go with it - a tracklist that includes Synken, Michael Rother, Sun Ra, Coil, Cluster and Leyland Kirby.

Here's the intro: full interview, album stream and mix inside the LINK

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/06/sr-mix-89-dalglish-highpoint-lowlife/

"There’s a lot currently going on in the life of Dalglish, aka Chris Douglas, in and outside…

More words and album stream and order links on the blog:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-everyone-to-anderson-man-born.html

The Man Born From Inside of a Horse is the debut full length album from Brighton's Everyone To The Anderson. It will be released through Unlabel on Monday in a limited edition run of hand-made die-cut screen printed sleeve CDs. It will be a work of art-rock record worth cherishing. For years I have been saying this is the best band in Brighton and for years I have no real idea if anyone has been listening to me or not, yet for years I have repeated it…

Shaidar Logoth
Chapter I: The Peddler

More words, download links and urls at the NFRBlog: http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/download-shaidar-logoth-chapter-i.html

Here is a very nice free-download black metal album for you, released in February by Minneapolis based duo Shaidar Logoth. The band is, ostensibly, a side-project for Steven Henningsgard and Adam Clemens to experiment with black metal forms, droning and atonal repetition of the kinds they don't get to use in their main death metal band Iron Thrones. The album is based on the character of Padan Fain in Robert Jordan’s ‘Wheel of Time‘ book series - this info and more interesting…

Hotel Wrecking City Traders & Gary Arce
Bro Fidelity

Stream tracks and order links at the blog: http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-hotel-wrecking-city-traders-gary.html

Melbourne based instrumental brother-duo Hotel Wrecking City Traders team up with Gary Arce of Yawning Man on this huge monolithic two-track slab of improv noise rock. Yawning Man were one of the bands first making forays deep into the Desert Rock scene along with Kyuss, Brant Bjork, Karma To Burn and then some; a wealth of gnarly experience from which Arce draws on, setting his guitars down over the top of the tapes sent to him with a cool and…