post-punk
A second 2024 review package, featuring fresh and archival wares from Rupert Lally, Dean McPhee, Aircooled, Essential Logic and more
Fifth album TANGK will not only satisfy the Idles diehard, but should continue to break down mainstream boundaries for the band
Sweeping Promises blast away the cobwebs of 2023 with an album of thrillingly immediate post-punk subterranean pop
JD Twitch and Chris Low document anarcho punk with an inspiring compilation of radical music to raise funds for Faslane Peace Camp
The ever durable Simon Rivers tells all on his new solo LP as Poor Performer, Oldfield Youth Club, The Bitter Springs, collaborations and more
Alongside another bout of retrospective but refreshing Prolapse activity, co-vocalist Mick Derrick lifts the lid on the band’s rich history
A sonically adventurous compilation of underground sounds from 1980s Japan curated by Optimo’s JD Twitch on his Cease & Desist imprint
Cherry Red revisits the labyrinthine and idiosyncratic ten-album run of Felt once again, with freshly-reupholstered CD editions
Another electronic feast, featuring Polypores, Hawksmoor, Rupert Lally, Xylitol, Quiet Clapping, A Certain Ratio and Western Edges
A collection of short reviews inspired by music magazines and DJ charts, including Altın Gün, Soul Jazz, UNKLE, Weatherall and more
A mix of wares from The Heartwood Institute & Hawksmoor, The Eccentronic Research Council, Polypores & Gareth E. Rees and The Home Current
Stewart Gardiner highlights a baker’s dozen of 2020 records he missed then, but has fallen in love with now
Border hopping European exports from Augenwasser, Cyril Cyril and Rats on Rafts arrive with some bracing sonic cross-blending
These are the seventy-five albums of 2020 that have meant the most to us at Concrete Islands, alongside our archive releases of the year
British-Israeli combo Staraya Derevnya make an extreme montage of noise and rhythm on their latest record Inwards Opened the Floor
New Zealand’s Vanessa Worm discusses self-expression, Scottish vibes and her LP of existential disco punk for Optimo Music
Thalia Zedek, Jason Sidney Sanford and Gavin McCarthy return with their third album as E, to prophetically plug into our waking fever dreams
Beaming themselves over the globe from Bueros Aires, Las Kellies return somewhat revitalised with their fourth album for Fire Records
Stewart Gardiner shares the records he played out under the Concrete Islands banner this month and unearths some ancient evidence of previous DJ activity
HTRK’s masterful new album for Ghostly International is a seemingly subdued work that is violent in its quiet, loud in its intimacy
Numero Group reissue Belgian cold wave trio Elisa Waut’s 1982 DIY debut, a thrilling under-half-an-hour blast of European post-punk dreams
A Certain Ratio reflect on their forty-year life as a band so far and the release of a career-straddling boxset on Mute
David Evans’ 33⅓ book on the Manics’ masterpiece is a reminder of the album’s strength as a recurring galvanising force, argues Claire Biddles
The Home Current’s Martin Jensen serves up European electronic dreams with a beautifully crafted mix for Concrete Islands
Kathy Acker sifts through multitudinous identities and tries on different voices as she recycles Charles Dickens and avoids the shadow of William Burroughs