EXCLUSIVE // Elephant Gym absolutely rip in this live session of ‘Satellite’
We first worked with Elephant Gym in 2014. And, incidentally, we first worked with Small Pond in 2014....
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FOCUS // A Gateway into Math Rock: One Exemplary Song From Each Year In The Genre’s Timeline
Have you ever wanted to explore the ever widening circuit board of madness that is math rock but...
A brief history of math rock in the U.K. and Ireland: The bands that defined the movement, and where they are now
In this Focus feature, Ali Safavi explores the math rock boom that occurred across the United Kingdom and Ireland during the late 00's., and the bands that defined the time.
The top 50 math rock albums of all time (5-1)
5. Slint – Spiderland (1991) Slint’s Spiderland is an enduring enigma. It’s tricky to imagine the thought that,...
EXCLUSIVE // Listen to “Hold My Breath” off new collab EP by The Kraken Quartet and Nay Wilkins (Hikes)
Two of the most prominent acts to come out of the Austin, TX math rock scene have joined forces. Instrumental percussionists The Kraken Quartet are gearing up to release a collaborative EP with Adobo (the solo project of Nay Wilkins, guitarist and singer of Hikes).
VIDEO // Body Hound live at Bad Pond Festival, Brighton
Where would we be as a scene without Body Hound? The band absolutely unleashed last year with one of our favourite releases of the year. In a scene dominated by gentle fret-wandering melodies and emo platitudes, the guitar-shredding, gammon-eating, Yorkshire-flag-waving BH absolutely punish their audience with a more dark and brooding from of instrumental rock. Case in point: this sensational live video from Bad Pond 2019.
FOCUS // “Our Band Name Sucks”: the story of The Bulletproof Tiger
Seemingly overnight, The Bulletproof Tiger morphed from a non-descript local band to one of Canada's key math rock exports and exemplars of the genre's renaissance in the 00's. This is their story, featuring never-before-seen photos of the band and exclusive insight from the members.
FOCUS // Brock Benzel on how the anatomy of math rock is shaping Invalids and Good Game
For many people, their first exposure to Invalids was indirect: a YouTube video of Pete Davis, founding member, covering the Tera Melos track “A Spoonful of Slurry” in a bedroom...
EXCLUSIVE // Instrumental math rock trio concrete concrete blend complexity and emotion in their new single ‘Iris Sky’
Math rock is a genre of excess, of indulgence. It is a genre that, due to the weight of its complexity and technicality, is susceptible to becoming overwhelming in the average listener. So often it is that the listener becomes lost, cast away from the musical narrative and this, unfortunately, makes the genre susceptible to not being taken seriously...
NEWS // More bands added to the Bad Pond Festival lineup in London
Since its inception in 2015, the Bad Pond festival has been one of the go-to events in Brighton....