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Stagger Lee @staggerlee68.bsky.social · 23h

I reviewed the Agriculture album for Narc.

SOOOO good

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ALBUM REVIEW: Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound

Lee Fisher enjoys some lurching blast beats and intense riffs of some ecstatic black metal

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Lauren Barley @rarelyunable.bsky.social · 5d

So great to see Jessica Moss and Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter in this list!

Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 5d

Just in time for Bandcamp Friday, these are the upcoming albums that Bandcamp fans are excited about.

The Hotlist, Fall 2025

These are the upcoming albums that Bandcamp fans are excited about.

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Lauren Barley @rarelyunable.bsky.social · 5d

Agriculture ★★★★★ review in The Guardian !!!
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o... @theflenser.bsky.social

Agriculture: The Spiritual Sound review – unabashedly gorgeous noise from ‘ecstatic black metal’ band

The LA group deliver all the power and euphoria of heavy music with imaginative detailing on their second album, which will have you levitating with joy

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The Flenser @theflenser.bsky.social · 6d

I love the spiritual sound of ecstatic black metal by the band Agriculture.

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Lauren Barley @rarelyunable.bsky.social · 5d

Love to see The Dwarfs Of East Agouza in here.
Thanks Simon @sun13music.bsky.social 💚

Sun 13 @sun13music.bsky.social · 5d

Weirdo Rippers #19

Featuring Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke, DuChamp, Sir Richard Bishop, Elliot Krimsky, and more.

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Lauren Barley @rarelyunable.bsky.social · 5d

The Dwarfs Of East Agouza interviewed by #fifteenquestions 15questions.net/interview/dw...

“We don't really go looking for or want to force anything in our music. We are just the vessels for an animating spirit or energy.”

Sasquatch Landslide (great album title!) is out today at #Constellation

15 questions | Interview | Dwarfs of East Agouza | “Trying to be in control in an improvised context doesn't make sense.”

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chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 6d

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/10/02/l... @ipecac.com @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Listen: ‘050809’ by Spotlights

Spotlights, the beloved trio of Mario and Sarah Quintero with drummer Chris Enriquez, release Rarities, a remastered nine-song compilation of early and rare tracks spanning the band’s full discogra…

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Baba Yaga's Hut @babayagashut.bsky.social · 23d

Can listen to my NTS show from last week here:
www.nts.live/shows/anthon...

@gazelletwin.bsky.social, Faten Kanaan, @sealionwoman.bsky.social, Diamanda Galas. That sorta thing

Anthony Chalmers 8th September 2025

Playing Noise Rock, Post Punk, Experimental. Anthony Chalmers, promoter of Baba Yaga's Hut, London's top night for left-field & experimental music visits NTS for a monthly showcase of his heavy collec...

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Lauren Barley @rarelyunable.bsky.social · 9d

Sam Law's interview with Agriculture for #kerrang magazine reads like it was a lot of fun - new album out this Friday via The Flenser: www.kerrang.com/agriculture-...

Agriculture: “As artists, we’re interested in finding the profound…

Agriculture are one of the boldest bands in American black metal, but their grandstanding music is founded in the simple beauty of the world around them.…

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 21d

Taking influences from Arabic music, jazz, and funk, the Dwarfs of East Agouza's new one is a left-field whirling dervish of a record, and our Album of the Day.

The Dwarfs Of East Agouza, “Sasquatch Landslide”

The Cairo trio craft energetic, left-field guitar music that practically launches itself at you.

daily.bandcamp.com

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Lauren Barley @rarelyunable.bsky.social · 12d

The Tonearm: Borrowed Voices, Borrowed Time — SANAM's Infinite Fire www.thetonearm.com/borrowed-voi...

Borrowed Voices, Borrowed Time — SANAM's Infinite Fire

The Lebanese sextet's second album 'Sametou Sawtan' transforms twelfth-century poetry and contemporary texts into experimental rock that captures both the intensity of their cult-like recording sessio...

www.thetonearm.com

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 17d

“The difference with what we’re doing is that we’re earnest about where we’re pulling all that from, and postmodernism is doing that as a distancing effect. Our interest in all this different kind of music is almost more from seeing a through line with it"

Agriculture Interviewed

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Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound album cover. Close up of an upturned face in black and white.

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Sun 13 @sun13music.bsky.social · 23d

"[H]is most expansive release yet."

Album review: Whitney K's 'Bubble' - out now via Fire Records.

@rarelyunable.bsky.social

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Whitney K: Bubble

On his first release for Fire Records, Konner Whitney dispenses more of the good oil.

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EchoesAndDust @echoesanddust.bsky.social · 16d

Festival Review | @supersonicfest.bsky.social 2025 – Sunday
"Supersonic is the most forward-thinking and open minded-festival in the UK by far, and long may this continue." By Gavin Brown bit.ly/SF_Sunday @rarelyunable.bsky.social Photo of Warrior Queen by @snaprockandpop

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Lauren Barley @rarelyunable.bsky.social · 27d

Absolutely love this! "a delightfully woozy, gently psychedelic record...magical realism, open hearted storytelling and intimately confessional personal realisations."
The musical world of Whitney K - new album Bubble out today!

Joyzine @joyzineuk.bsky.social · 27d

MY LIFE IN 10 SONGS: WHINEY K’S KONNER WHITNEY

With new gently psychedelic album 'Bubble' out on 12th September we asked Konner Whitney to delve into the music that has shaped him from childhood to the current day. Cue Sum 41, Swollen Members, Mutators, Willie Nelson and more.

My Life In 10 Songs: Whitney K’s Konner Whitney shares key tracks from his life - Joyzine

Canadian band Whitney K release their new album Bubble on 12th September via the consistently excellent Fire Records. It's a delightfully woozy, gently psychedelic record, taking in elements of countr...

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chrisnosnibor.bsky.social @chrisnosnibor.bsky.social · 28d

Agriculture give it all, and the impact hits like nothing else... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/10/a... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

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The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · Sep 4

Oh hey new ROVR show, it's a @krankyltd.bsky.social special!! Came out nice I think.

ROVR - Multiversal Discernment

An impossibly Kranky special edition

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Mindies @mindiesview.bsky.social · Aug 28

Faten Kanaan estrena ‘Soseol’, una pieza que adelanta ‘Diary of a Candle’, donde sintetizadores y contrapuntos evocan la llegada del invierno y la fuerza transformadora de la naturaleza. www.mindies.es/2025/08/fate...

Faten Kanaan lanza ‘Soseol’, un viaje sonoro entre naturaleza y estaciones | Mindies

Faten Kanaan presenta hoy ‘Soseol’, un delicado adelanto de su próximo trabajo ‘Diary of a Candle’, que verá la luz el 17 de octubre a través de Fire Records. El nuevo sencillo, cuyo título significa ...

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Lauren Barley @rarelyunable.bsky.social · Aug 29

“There’s a post-punk integrity underpinning their music which can be linked back to the indispensable soundscapes and motivations of bands like CRASS, The Raincoats and The Slits.” - Hell yeah! Thanks @backseatmafia.bsky.social for the Rún review!

Backseat Mafia @backseatmafia.bsky.social · Aug 26

Album Review: Rún’s @run_band_insta exhilarating self-titled debut out on @rocket_recordings

"‘Rún’ emerges as an ambitious piece of work that’s fortified with remarkable focus and fluency".
Words: John Parry

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Album Review: Rún’s exhilarating self-titled debut – an alchemic forging of psychedelic doom and dark folk.

The darker hues of metal, folk and other musics enticingly converge on the self-titled album from new Irish trio Rún, released by those perennial psych-rock discoverers at Rocket Recordings. A threesome of significant like-minds, all pivotal to the island’s leftfield scene, Rún brings together vocal artist Tara Baoth Mooney, Dublin composer/performer Diarmuid MacDiarmada and drummer, sound designer and engineer Rian Trench. Besides paths crossing on other side projects in the past, the band have been working more coherently together since 2024 which makes the completeness of their debut both an achievement and a testament to their natural sonic chemistry.

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Lauren Barley @rarelyunable.bsky.social · Aug 29

Excellent review of Rún's debut @thequietus.com "Heavy, feral, and beautiful.” @rocketrecordings.bsky.social
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Rún – Rún | The Quietus

Mining sludge metal, free improv, krautrock, sacred music, electronica, and folk, Rún are playing with horror, not just as a trope, but as a worldly experience

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Lauren Barley @rarelyunable.bsky.social · Aug 29

Rún's debut album is described by Devolution Magazine as being “like the collaboration between Massive Attack and Julie Christmas that definitely should have happened… a multi coloured album of magnitude and imagination”.
devolutionmagazine.co.uk/2025/08/27/r...
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Review: Rún - Rún - Devolution Magazine

Rún Rún Rocket This is a release that grabbed our attention so much on the first single that we instantly emailed their PR for a copy. The sound of Rún covers a lot of ground from the beautiful tender...

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Get In Her Ears @getinherears.bsky.social · Aug 26

Championing alternative music and celebrating experimental art-forms is the lifeblood of Birmingham’s #SupersonicFestival (@supersonicfest.bsky.social)

We caught up with CEO & Artistic Director Lisa Meyer to talk all about this idiosyncratic event! 🖤

Read here: getinherears.com/2025/08/26/i...

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Supersonic Festival @supersonicfest.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Rocket Recordings @rocketrecordings.bsky.social · Aug 22

"The level of exploration and creativity in this album is exciting and frankly, enormously impressive." Out Of Rage 9/10

We are quite ecstatic to announce that Rún's debut S/T album is finally released today in all good record shops.

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Lauren Barley @rarelyunable.bsky.social · Aug 22

"Supersonic has a truly global outlook, putting on trailblazing artists from every corner of the world, not just the English-speaking minority." Ace preview @thequietus.com by the icon @msclairebiddles.bsky.social thequietus.com/news/superso... The festival opens its doors next week & we cannot wait

Supersonic 2025: Your Quietus Essential Picks

With this year's Supersonic Festival just a week away, tQ's Claire Biddles selects 10 must-sees from a stacked lineup, from Nigerian rap to Philadelphia queercore to locally-sourced Brum heaviness, vi...

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