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Different Noises 120

An eclectic mix of mostly new material with more than average Antipodean content, lots of Mancunian elements, and a blend of styles and movements that on first examination might appear contradictory but when listened to in sequence there is an organic flow.

AUDIO

PLAYLIST

• Bugg Music - Bugg Season¹

• Inca Babies - Two Rails To Nowhere²

• Occult Character - Her Guts, My Graveyard³

• Jodie Langford - Bowling (Off With Her Head)⁴

• Illustration - Danceable⁵

• Dubmatix - Rough Likkle Town (ft Brother Culture)⁶

• hedfog - I Won’t Go⁷

• The Mick Medew and Ursula 4 - Will The Train Ever Stop At Banyo?⁸

• Walking Bombs - Bake Parkway⁹

• TAB-D - It’s Better Not To Know¹⁰

• House of All - The Devils House¹¹

• Sonitus Missarum - Golden Bloom¹²

• Pile of Knives - Stabbed¹³

• Sakna - Alltid¹⁴

• Mascot Moth - Psychedelynores ¹⁵

• Lilian King - Tiber Creek ¹⁶

• Philip Blackburn - Sounding Xibalba ¹⁷

• The Go-Betweens - Caroline And I¹⁸

• Danny Short - Tomorrow’s World ¹⁹

• Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes - I’ve Got To Have You²⁰

• Moff Skellington - ya chowst ewah donklyn²¹

• The Last Caboose - Train Train²²

• Mark Snarski - When Our Worlds Collide²³

• The New Eves - Volcano²⁴

• The Dream Syndicate - Daddy’s Girl²⁵

• On Diamond - It’s Me Calling²⁶

• The Parasite - Poor Rich Boy Insecure ²⁷

• The Apartments - Afternoons ²⁸

• Tortoise - Vexations ²⁹

• West Coast Sick Line - Superfanatical Man³⁰

• Ember Rev - I Dreamt Of Forests³¹

NOTES

1. Bugg Music is a band based in Sydney, Australia, known for their energetic live shows and playful aesthetic. The group describes their style as “bubblegum punk”, blending catchy melodies with punk attitude and a colourful, DIY presentation. Their latest release is an EP titled Very Sick Very Cute, which they’re actively promoting through live gigs and social media

2. Manchester’s iconic post-punk outfit and John Peel faves Inca Babies presents ‘Two Rails To Nowhere’, a re-envisioned offering from their ‘Reincarnation’ album, released November 28th via Black Lagoon Records. The Spotify version includes the 2025 version and the 1988 original. Previously a folk rock tune that told a small story of country woe, this expanded version has become the country prison song it always wanted to be, telling a far more heroic tale.

3. The prolific Matt Nauseous returns with another lo-fi classic via the also prolific Metal Postcard records

4. Alongside the release of her debut album Softly Spoken, Hull’s much-loved spoken word / party punk Jodie Langford comes with the track Bowling (Off With Her Head) for radio – a song inspired by Anne Boleyn that touches on issues of misogyny & chauvinistic attitudes. With production duties supplied by Jodie’s musical sidekick Endoflevelbaddie, the track kicks off with a dark growling bassline before Jodie’s mob-like chant “Off with her head” creeps in & mingles with regal synth melodies to great effect.

5. Emerging from the vaults the first and only album from Illustration, a band woven into the very fabric of Manchester’s legendary late-70s/early-80s music scene, was released digitally for the first time on Bandcamp, November 1, 2025. This collection of demo recordings is the sole legacy of a band that shared rehearsal spaces with Joy Division and A Certain Ratio, was visited by Factory Records’ Anthony H. Wilson, and was once tipped for success alongside future icons on the seminal Some Bizzare Album compilation. Formed in 1978 by school friends Antony Harrison and Timm Johnson, Illustration’s journey is a snapshot of a golden era. The classic line-up—Harrison, Johnson, drummer George Terry, keyboardist Julia Adamson, and bassist Paul Lancaster—cut their teeth at the iconic T.J. Davidsons rehearsal rooms in Manchester, played early gigs supporting The Fall, and developed a unique, narrative-driven sound in a cellar shared with A Certain Ratio. By 1980, Illustration was on the cusp of breakthrough. Their track “Tidal Flow” was featured on The Some Bizzare Album, a legendary compilation that launched Depeche Mode and Soft Cell. After airplay on BBC’s The Old Grey Whistle Test and a promotional tour, they entered the renowned Strawberry Studios in Stockport with producer Martin Hannett to record their debut single, “Danceable.” Yet, as quickly as their star seemed to be rising, it vanished. In the spring of 1981, under circumstances the band members still cannot fully explain, Illustration dissolved, leaving behind these raw and powerful demo recordings. This digital release offers a long-overdue opportunity to discover a missing piece of music history.

6. From the deep echo chambers of 2004’s Champion Sound Clash to the uplifting spirit of 2024’s Lion of Judah, “Echoes of the People” is a celebration of two decades of dub, reggae, and bass culture by Dubmatix. Dubmatix says “This 20-track collection brings together the songs that have resonated most with fans across the world as I’ve toured, listened to feedback, and seen on radio playlists. Each tune represents a moment in the Dubmatix story, a connection between artist and audience built on heavy groove and a passion for the genre”.

7. Peter says “tizzy’d up three old songs and companioned with two new songs. Transcom, a local label which has been releasing Brisbane-based electronica since 1994, have pressed my EP and there is a limited run available from their Bandcamp page. I launched the EP last Thursday night with a live performance. Had my original drummer on board - the first gig we’ve playing in 35 years. Fun and fatiguing”.

8. This release amplifies the frustrations of navigating urban public transport. Written by Mick Medew and Ursula Collie, recorded by Stuart McLaughlin and mastered by Melbourne sonic maestro Ernie O, the song namechecks Banyo on Brisbane’s Shorncliffe Line where the station’s accessibility upgrade is running six months behind schedule. The single features Mick Medew (Screaming Tribesemen, Mesmerisers) on vocals and guitar, Ursula Collie (ex-Ironing Music) on keyboards, Lois Andrews on bass and vocals and Stuart McLaughlin (Sarah Stockholm Band) on drums.

9. Walking Bombs is the prolific collaborator magnet/solo project of vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Morgan Y. Evans. The two-album Blessings Bestrewn arrives in the project’s busiest year to date, yet stands out among the recent rash of mixtapes, EPs, and singles as a more orchestrated and complex project. The record was largely recorded in upstate New York in 2022 prior to Evans’ relocation to California, after which it was slowly refined and completed over many months. Following the first album’s release earlier this year, Blessings Bestrewn Part 2 has now arrived three years since Evans’ move across the country. Like the first album, Blessings Bestrewn Part 2 sees Evans performing electric and acoustic guitars/basses, trombone, and lead vocals. The record also features a wide cast of collaborators including Ash Umhey (The Alchemy Unit) – who recorded, mixed, and mastered the album at his Orange Sound in Rhinebeck, New York – as well as Kellii Scott (Failure), Sem Ortiz, Justin Zipperle (Shadow Witch, ex- Pontius Pilate Sales Pitch), David Brenner (Gridfailure, Diminishing), Bria Mccollum (Ergo, Bria), Justin Meyer (Anadivine), and Mo Kelly (Grape & the Grain, Girls Wish). The record was completed with cover art by Elizabeth “Lizzie” Gomez Dapena and Morgan Y. Evans.

10. Formed originally by Dermot ffrench and Boz Hayward in Newbury, UK 1984. TAB-D II started in 1997 in Manchester with Bill Marten (bass) and Rob Haynes (drums) joining Boz. Dermot and Bill are sadly no longer with us due to cancer and mental health issues. Disease has many forms. It is a part of life. With new viruses and diagnoses, ways of seeing change. We can all learn. Understanding is key. There’ll Always Be Diseases by Manchester punk band There’ll Always Be Diseases (TAB-D) was recorded by Pete Troughton over the summers of 2005 and 2006 at his ‘Studio Studio’ studio in Whitworth, Lancashire. It was released in 2011.

11. “The Devil’s House” is the opening track on House Of All Souls, the third album released on 18 February 2025 via Tiny Global Productions. The track features a tight rhythm section with Paul Hanley on drums and Stephen Hanley on bass, delivering a driving foundation for Martin Bramah’s vocals and guitar. The lineup also includes Pete Greenway and Simon Wolstencroft, with Karl Burns returning to contribute drums—creating a three-drummer rotation across the album.

12. WV Sorcerer Productions 巫唱片 & Ramble Records are excited to be releasing the Dutch-Portuguese free-noise quartet Sonitus Missarum. Sonitus Missarum (from Latin, “Sounds of the Masses” ) explores the boundaries of rhythm, texture, and chaos. With a lineup of bass, two drum kits, and a no-input mixer, the group creates dense, evolving soundscapes that oscillate between ritual intensity and abstract improvisation. At its core is the electric bass, anchoring the sonic field while also disrupting it with deep, shifting tonal currents. The twin drummers form a matrix of pulse and turbulence, constantly reshaping the group’s momentum. The no-input mixer adds a volatile noise layer, a glue of feedback, hiss, and resonance, that binds the chaos together into fleeting moments of cohesion.
Sonitus Missarum is less about “songs” and more about moments: collisions of sound, energy, and intuition that celebrate imperfection, immediacy, and the collective voice of the masses.

13. An Eastern Pennsylvania-based brutal death metal outfit their second EP, Driven By The Blade. Based in the Pocono Mountains, they may be a new name to many, but the band’s origins stretch back more than a decade to when guitarist Chett Kolakoski, Lee Messerschmidt, and drummer Dylan “Pickle” Jaludi played together in their prior band, Existence. Following nearly a decade-long hiatus, the band began jamming together again in late 2022. It didn’t take long for them to realize they wanted to take it a step further and get a new band going. Within a few months, Messerschmidt’s friend Jay Stromeyer was recruited to play bass. Shortly thereafter, Bryan Martinez, formerly of Grimus, was enlisted as the band’s vocalist.

14. This one-man band shrouded in mystery since its inception in 2006, is a bastion of the post-second wave of black metal ethos, championing a period where the musicality of black metal overtook the antics of its forefathers. Conceived by the late Canadian multi-instrumentalist Solemn, the project espouses a sound that has been dubbed “a natural extension of Windir;” a seamless fusion of epic Sognametal with emotive atmospheric black metal, DSBM, funeral doom, neo-folk, and dark ambient. After nearly two decades in relative obscurity, Solemn’s brother S. of post-metal band Lunedi has lifted the curtain on his sibling’s genius, unveiling a plethora of songs that lay hidden from the world for years on old hard drives. With several more years dedicated to the recovery, meticulous mixing, and remastering of the music by Greg Dawson at BWC Studios (Thantifaxath, Panzerfaust), De Syv Dødssynder – this masterpiece and sole full-length album – is finally getting a physical release in 2025 via Canada’s eminent extreme metal label, Hypaethral Records.

15. Another WEEDIAN compilation is out - this time with bands from Wales. The featured tune is the opening track on Mascot Moth’s 2024 album Nôl i Annwfn, released 21 June 2024 via Foetal Orange.

16. Your Long Shadow is the debut album from Chicago indie songwriter Lillian King, out via Pronounced Kroog (the new label from Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, and Moonface). Produced by Jack Henry (Friko, Free Range), the album leans into slow-burning indie, folk rock, and atmospheric Americana.

17. From his new album Another Intensity an expansive exploration of the natural world as a living, breathing concert hall. It is an invitation to listen to the organic stillness within motion, stasis and flux, and the contemplation of fleeting phenomena. In short, a sonic weather system of the mind. Sounding Xibalba was recorded deep inside the sacred Maya underworld of Mountain Cow Cave in Belize. Blackburn awakens the uniquely resonant stalagmites and stalactites, surrounded by sacrificial human remains, and summons a whistling spirit with an ancient ceramic bat-flute—a magical experience where ears replace sight.

18. Originally the lead single from The Go-Betweens’ eighth studio album Bright Yellow Bright Orange, released on 9 June 2003. This version is from the Airlock Demos. The lyrics reflect Forster’s imagined connection with Caroline Kennedy, born the same year as him. It’s a wistful meditation on parallel lives, youthful ideals, and the passage of time. Lines like “Born in the very same year / Alive at a similar time” evoke a sense of shared generational experience.

19. Another track from Danny’s most recent EP

20. Another track from the expanded anniversary edition of The Soft ‘n’ Sexy Sound. The original version by Gram Parsons is a melancholic country ballad, and Graney’s rendition reinterprets it through his signature lounge-rock lens.

21. More Lembryonic dialect from the recent Moff release

22. The last track on the debut ep from this Manchester Band

23. Another track from his new double album

24. The final track from the debut album

25. Continuing to work my way through the Anniversary version of The Medicine Show album - this is the second track on the original album

26. Another track from their new album

27. The final track from their recent release

28. Another track from their new album

29. Another track from their new album

30. Another track from their new album

31. The fifth and final album from this Cambridge based band….more details to follow in due course