Nadja – cut Midira Records / Cruel Nature Records– 24th October 2025 A new Nadja release is always cause for a pique of interest. Excitement doesn’t feel like quite the right term for an act who create such de…

This is music with a physical force and a power beyond words, beyond contrivance. It’s archaic, occult, primal in its power... auralaggravation.com/2025/10/11/n... @dense-pr.bsky.social @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social

Watch: ‘Under Dark Skies’ by Tombstones In Their Eyes LA-based psychedelic rock outfit Tombstones In Their Eyes presents their brooding single ‘Under Dark Skies’, previewing their Under Dark Skies album, to be released via Little Cloud Records (for No…

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... auralaggravation.com/2025/10/08/w... @shamelesspromotion.bsky.social

Raoul Sinier is most definitely back, and this is very much a good thing... auralaggravation.com/2025/10/07/r... @dense-pr.bsky.social

Smote – Songs From The Free House Rocket Recordings – 17th October 2025 Christopher Nosnibor The thing that particularly stands out in the bio for the latest Smote album is this: ‘Daniel Foggin has spent the majority of his adult l…

You can truly feel the earth move... auralaggravation.com/2025/10/06/s... @rocketrecordings.bsky.social @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Watch: ‘Sword Tongue’ by We Are the Resistance Oakland-based alternative rock / darkwave trio Sword Tongue presents the video for ‘We Are The Resistance’ , a dark gem showcasing their explosive fourth EP Bonfire In The Tempest. Galvanized, song…

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/10/05/w... @swordtongue.bsky.social @shamelesspromotion.bsky.social

Foldhead – Paris Braille 3rd October 2025 Christopher Nosnibor Foldhead has been quiet on the output front of late, after something of a purple patch around lockdown, there was a lull, broken by Mirfield Pads in 2022, with…

Intense, hypnotic, relentless, it’s a pulsating, shifting noise beast that slowly spins off its axis and out of control in a swelling surge of sound... auralaggravation.com/2025/10/03/f... @paultone.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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Kevin Drumm – Sheer Hellish Miasmah Editions Mego – 10th October 2025 Christopher Nosnibor This is a monster. A monster that’s been roaring and raging for twenty-three years now. The appropriately-titled noise classic, Sheer Hellish …

This is a monster... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/27/k... @editionsmego.bsky.social @dense-pr.bsky.social

Ashley Reaks – At Night The World Belongs To Me 2nd October 2025 Christopher Nosnibor The context for Ashley Reaks’ sixteenth solo album – and his third in three years (not counting the compilation of demos released earlier this year) – is weigh…

I know, I’m sort of dancing about architecture here, but something about Reaks’ work prompts a multi-sensory response... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/24/a...

Watch: ‘Snodgerss’ by Smote Following the announcement of Smote’s fifth release for Rocket Recordings – Songs From The Free House – the band now shares a second taster of what’s to come in the form of ‘Snodg…

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Well I'm excited... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/23/b...

Always a pleasure, and of course, excellent music warrants the best words I can muster!

The Dwarfs Of East Agouza – Sasquatch Landslide Constellation – 3rd October 2025 Christopher Nosnibor The third album by The Dwarfs Of East Agouza (Maurice Louca (Lehkfa), Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, Sublime Frequencies), and Sam Shalabi (Land …

For all of its abstraction, 'Sasquatch Landslide' provokes quite visual interpretations of the sounds emanating from the speakers. I expect to have very strange dreams tonight after this... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/20/t... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Fat Concubine – Empire Cruel Nature Records – 12th September 2025 Christopher Nosnibor Postmodernism, emerging primarily as a product of post-war America was defined by hybridity, the demolition of parameters and distinc…

Harsh, heavy, abrasive, messed-up… these are the selling points for this release... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/19/f... @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social

Ben Frost – Steelwound Room40 – 19th September 2025 Christopher Nosnibor There are many labels putting interesting and unusual, innovative releases into the world. The majority of them are small, and supremely niche, but…

This is the twentieth anniversary edition of an album that likely very few people have even heard of, let alone heard... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/18/b... @dense-pr.bsky.social @room40.bsky.social

Listen: ‘Titular’ by The Dwarfs Of East Agouza Maurice Louca, Alan Bishop, and Sam Shalabi expand on their telekinetic fusion of North African rhythm, heat-haze improvisation, shaabi rawness, free jazz, and psychedelic groove, following acclaim…

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/09/17/l... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

He's been getting far too much platform in the local press here in York, but the facade of 'community pride' soon slipped and he started saying how York isn't an 'international' or 'global' city, but an English city, and that he objected to pride flags because they don't represent him

Watch: ‘Dan’s Love Song’ by Agriculture The forthcoming full-length from Los Angeles–based band Agriculture, The Spiritual Sound, traces a narrative arc through extremes.  The album is largely a fusing of the visions of its two prin…

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Sometimes, I feel I should be able to asemble my thoughs more quickly, and type faster...

Ran Slavin – Neon Swans Nocturnal Rainbow Recordings – 5th September 2025 Christopher Nosnibor One significant downside to digital music formats is that is reduces the dimensions of the experience. With a record, and even…

The execution of Neon Swans is hard to fault, and it does cover considerable ground, with range, over its expansive duration. But it is sprawling in its scope, its focus is variable, and it is very long. And it’s maybe better with drugs... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/12/r... @dense-pr.bsky.social

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

The Beast of Noisenibor, by NOISENIBOR 8 track album

So, this happened. It's not quite the announcement I'd envisaged, but while I work on that, here it is. A free compilation album culled from my last five years of noisemaking... christophernosnibor.bandcamp.com/album/the-be...

Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound The Flenser – 3rd October 2025 Christopher Nosnibor Agriculture – the name brings connotations of the slow, the sedate, a simple and calm life, of rolling fields, tractors, luscious foliage, abunda…

Agriculture don’t only transcend black metal, but genre entirely, and the experience is dizzying, a visionary creative peak which is truly peerless... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/06/a... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Cowgirl / The Bricks / Strange Pink – The Black Horse, York, 4th September 2025 Christopher Nosnibor Pub gigs provided me with my first experiences of live music, back in the early 90s. Often, pubs with upstairs rooms would pop bands on, and other still would simply pack bands…

Everything about tonight feels like a win... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/05/c...

Feeling quite overwhelmed by my inbox, so will be focusing on my write-up of last night's gig and a few other pipeline bits, and will start sifting through stuff over the weekend - or when I'm feeling up to it.

tonight’s advertised lineup is a cracker. Diverse, but solid quality of an international reach... auralaggravation.com/2025/08/24/j... @heinouswhiner.bsky.social

Slomo – The Creep Ideologic Organ – 5th September 2025 Christopher Nosnibor Umberto Eco is one of the many authors I feel I should have read, and hope that one day I will get around to reading. Social media has of l…

20 years on, it’s clear that this is a work which is timeless. Niche, but timeless... auralaggravation.com/2025/08/21/s... @dense-pr.bsky.social

The album’s mid-section takes on a dreamy, drifting, dreamy quality, floating from here to there, with scratches and scrapes, forward and backward providing texture to these ponderous sonic expanses... auralaggravation.com/2025/08/19/e... @dense-pr.bsky.social @room40.bsky.social

Listen: ‘The Causeway’ by The Necks This October, the indefatigably enigmatic trio The Necks will release Disquiet, their 20th full-length release, a triple disc via Northern Spy. It’s an absolutely intoxicating listen, over th…

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Rún – Rún Rocket Recordings – 22nd August 2025 Christopher Nosnibor While you wouldn’t exactly call Rún a supergroup, they certainly represent a coming together of disparate artists of no insignificant pedig…

They have no confines, no limits, and to touch them is to embark on a journey. And what a journey this is... auralaggravation.com/2025/08/16/r... @rarelyunable.bsky.social @rocketrecordings.bsky.social