On Music
Nostalgia For Infinity was basically a music review site for a few years. In that time I reviewed almost two hundred records. It was pretty exhausting, but fun.
Albums, EPs and singles:
- The Dauntless Elite – More Bloody Bad News (album)
- The Bombpops – Stole the TV (CD EP)
- We’ll Go Machete – Strong Drunk Hands (album)
- Sharks Come Cruisin – A Past We Forget That We Need Know (album)
- Banquets – Top Shelf, Bottom Shelf (album)
- Ghost Robot Ninja Bear – self-titled (album)
- Stand Your Ground – Despondenseas (album)
- Tin Armor – Life of Abundance (album)
- Luther – Siblings & Sevens (album)
- Creations – The Gospel (album)
- Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) – Home After Three Months Away (EP)
- Hightide Hotel – Nothing Was Missing Except Me (album)
- Sovereign Strength – The Prophecy (album)
- Dan Webb & the Spiders – Much Obliged (album)
- Snowing – I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted (album)
- The Gateway District – Perfect’s Gonna Fail (album)
- Restorations – self-titled (12″)
- Warren Franklin – Your Heart Belongs to the Midwest (album)
- The Wild – A Collection (album)
- The Atolls – self-titled (EP)
- Early & Often – Present No Fiction, Fear No Tense (EP)
- Velvet Coast – The Letter from Private (EP)
- Hound – We Will Never Sleep (EP)
- The American Scene – By Way of Introduction (album)
- Black Wine – Summer of Indifference (album)
- Broadcaster – Joyride (EP)
- Direct Hit! – Domesplitter (album)
- Half-Hearted Hero – Running Water (12″ EP)
- Banquets / Mayflower – Split (cassette)
- Event Horses – Dance With the Devil (EP)
- Knuckle Up! – Motivation From Misery (album)
- Heights – Dead End (album)
- Pips – Floppy God (album)
- Handguns – Don’t Bite Your Tongue (EP)
- The Ergon Carousel – Dead Banks (album)
- Hold Tight – Can’t Take This Away (album)
- Slabdragger – Regress (LP)
- Protected Left – Songs of the Doomed (EP)
- Antillectual – Start From Scratch (album)
- The Border Surrender – Lean Season (EP)
- Diamonds – Crystal Ravens (mini-album)
- Grazes – Myths (7″)
- Monument – Goes Canoeing (album)
- SWTHRT – Compact Disc (album)
- The Plurals – The Plurals Today, The Plurals Tomorrow: A Futurospective (album)
- Rolo Tomassi – Antares (split 7″)
- Shuteye Unison – Our Future Selves (album)
- By Surprise – Mountain Smashers (album)
- One Win Choice – Conveyor (album)
- Plantagenet 3 – Modern Myths & Fairy Tales (album)
- The Static Age – In the City of Wandering Lights (album)
- The Fucking Cops – Fuck You Up With Some Truth (EP)
- Nothing Amazing Happens Here – Highly Conceptual Performance Art (digital EP)
- Gray Young – Starsail (album)
- Dads – Brush Your Teeth ;) (EP)
- Colonics – 1.0 (digital EP)
- Cain Marko – At Sea (EP)
- Mala In Se – self-titled (album)
- Tin Horn Prayer – Get Busy Dying (album)
- Cattle Drums – The Boy Kisser Sessions + 3 (album)
- Wagers – New Guilt (album)
- Mixtapes – A Short Collection of Short Songs (album)
- Medicine8 – Mercury Injection b/w R.M.P.O (single)
- Transit – Keep This To Yourself (album)
- Run, Forever – The Devil, The Death, and Me (album)
- Francobollo – Try? + Bronze Medallists – Mathematics (digital singles)
- United Sons of Toil – When The Revolution Comes, Everything Will Be Beautiful (album)
- Run With the Hunted – self-titled (album)
- Bangers – Small Pleasures (album)
- The Winter Olympics – I Miss the 90s b/w This is the Fourth Time (I Have Been In Your House) (single)
- Only Thieves – Heartless Romantics (album)
- Carpenter – Sea to Sky (album)
- Lights At Sea – Palace Walls (album)
- Colly Strings – Take a Good Look (digital single)
- Octaves – Greener Pastures (album)
- Man the Change – Weather the Storm (album)
- The Haunted Continents – Loudest Year Ever (album)
- Yngve & the Innocent – Draw a Line (single)
- Ghost Heart – The TUnnel (album)
- Direct Hit / Tit Patrol – split (7″)
- Tigon / Canyons / Foreign Theatres – Can’t Have Nothin’ Nice (split 12″)
- Trojan Horse – self-titled (album)
- Kerouac / The Long Haul – split (EP)
- The Taxpayers – To Risk So Much for One Damn Meal (album)
- Talons – Hollow Realms (album)
- Why Why Peaches – Holes (digital single)
- The End of America – Steep Bay (album)
- After The Fall – Eradication (album)
- Come On Gang! – Strike a Match (album)
- Diamonds – An Introduction (demo/EP)
- Pilotlight – South (digi single)
- Annabel – Here We Are Tomorrow (EP)
- Cynics – Stones I’ve Thrown (7″)
- Aged Yummy – Hoi Polloi (single)
- Campaign – Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! (EP)
- Captain, We’re Sinking! – With Joe Riley (EP)
- Dolcim – We Carry The Fire (LP)
- The Reptilian – Full Health (EP)
- Boy Mandeville – Mo Skrib (EP)
- Into It. Over It & Pswingset split (7″)
- Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) & Into It. Over It split (7″)
- Babies Three – self-titled (LP)
- …And So I Watch You From Afar – Straight Through The Sun (7″)
- Mountains For Clouds – Some People Buy Scenery Like This (EP)
- Football, Etc. – Away Game (7″)
- Yngve & the Innocent – Nothing Was Delivered (EP)
- The Cold Beat – Get Safe
- The Saddest Landscape – You Will Not Survive
- Bars of Gold – Of Gold
- Brontosaurus Chorus – Owls (album)
- Prismo Perfect – Out of Nowhere (EP)
- Feldberg – I’m Not Thinking Of You (digital single)
- Sledgeback – Bite the Bullet (album)
- We Were Skeletons – self-titled (album)
- Solar Bear – Captains of Industry (EP)
- imadethismistake – Bow and Quiver (album)
- Hang the Bastard – Hellfire Reign (album)
- Candy Hearts – Ripped Up Jeans & Silly Dreams (album) (review to be republished in Re/Action magazine issue #2)
- Castevet – The Echo & the Light (album)
- The Great Explainer – The Way Things Swell (10″)
- Go Rydell – The Golden Age (album)
- Museum Mouth – Tears In My Beer (album)
- Jackals – self-titled (7″ EP)
- Let’s Talk Daggers – Blankets (EP)
- Young Adults – Black Hole (album)
- Daughters – self-titled (album)
- The Border Surrender – Oh Mary (single)
- Bangers – Dude Trips (album)
- Mixtapes / Direct Hit!split (7″)
- Grown Ups – More Songs (album)
- Charles the Osprey – Consider (album)
- Fake Problems – Real Ghosts Caught on Tape (CD album)
- Banquets – This Is Our Concern, Dude (7″)
- RVIVR – Dirty Water (EP)
- Pianos Become the Teeth – Old Pride
- The Holy Mess – Dismount (CD EP)
- Bastions – Island Living (CD EP)
- Come On Gang – Fortune Favours the Brave (digital single)
- Ghost Robot Ninja Bear – Singles EP
- Frontier(s) – The Plains b/w Radiomine 7″
- Iron Chic – Not Like This
- Everyone Everywhere – self-titled 12″
- Junior Battles – self-titled 7″
- Victor! Fix the Sun – Person Place or Thing
- Off With Their Heads – In Desolation
- Campaign – It Likes to Party
- The Static Age – i/o
- Dirty Tactics – It Is What It Is
- The Black Keys – Brothers
- Boy Mandeville – Christina b/w Raisin Snake
- Deftones – Diamond Eyes
- The Menzingers – Chamberlain Waits
- Sundials – First Six Songs EP
- Stegosaurus – Adventure 7″
- Grown Ups – Songs EP
- Bull See Red – A Girl Called Murder
- Victoria & Jacob – With No Certainty 7″
- Bomb the Music Industry! – Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!!
- Blacklisted – No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me
- Antares – L’esprit de l’escalier
- Throats – self-titled
- Rolo Tomassi & Throats – split 7″
- Victoria & Jacob – ‘Clash’
- French for Cartridge – Oooh! 7″
- Nothington – Roads, Bridges & Ruins
- American Steel – Dear Friends & Gentle Hearts
- That Fucking Tank – Tanknology
- LR Rockets – Renee Loves Losers / OK Let’s Talk
- fulangchangandi – self-titled EP
- The Mae Shi – HLLLYH
- The Measure [SA] – Songs About People… And Fruit ‘N Shit
- The Ergs! – That’s It… Goodbye + download
- The Silence / Truly Beautiful Disaster
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Shows & festivals
- Iron Chic, Bangers, You Me & the Atom Bomb, Little Ease @ Prince Albert, Brighton, May ’11
- Gama Bomb, Mutant, Crypsis, Drive By Shark live @ Engine Room, Brighton, June ’10
- Offset Festival Day 2 (at last!), Jan ’10
- Offset Festival Day 1, Sep ’09
- Defiance Ohio, Madeline, Jakal, Kelly Kemp @ Cowley Club, May ’09
- Gig Roundup April ’09:
Death Cabaret, Whitemare, Pride Can Kill @ Prince Albert
Bastard Squad, C.U.N.T., Offcuts, Guardians of Love & Honour @ Walmer
Crazy Arm, Random Hand, Propagandhi @ Concorde 2
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone @ Freebutt - Dananananaykroyd, Calories @ Engine Room, March ‘09
- Parts & Labor, SJ Esau, Lonely Ghosts @ Prince Albert, February ’09
- Young Widows, The Plague Sermon, Bear Feet @ Prince Albert, February ’09
- Silent Front / Chick Peas / Zettasaur @ The Hope, July ’07
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The Dreaded Press
The Dreaded Press is a rock music review site run by Paul Graham Raven. It’s inactive these days, but it’s still up and so here are links to some reviews I wrote for it.
- ATP: The Fans Strike Back 2009
- Walk.DontWalk – A Horse To Be Reckoned With
- Fucked Up + Let’s Wrestle + Betty & the Werewolves @ Brighton Freebutt, Nov ’08
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Year’s Best
I have Opinions, and like every blogger I Share them. Here’s what I thought was awesomest in any given year!
- A random assortment of NFI’s favourite records of 2011: part one, part two, part three
- 2009: Year’s Best Music
- A Year in Music: Shaun’s best 2008
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Band Aid
Occasionally I write vague profiles about bands I really like. Usually one that’s split up.
