Louise Brown manages to drag herself out of the pit of disappear this terrible month has pushed us all into to find hope in the rancid art and galumphing noise of Witchwood, Robert Pehrsson's Humbucker, Testament, The Eddy Malm Band, Spiritus Mortis, Tower, T.O.M.B
In our monthly subscriber-only essay Daniel Spicer has a Proustian rush listening to Elvis Presley's career concluding single Way Down, is reminded of the fragility of existence and is catapulted back into a childhood of ageing teds, biker gangs and wyrd Cornish magic...
With their debut album Dying fresh on the shelves yesterday, the Bristol four-piece's Joe Hatt and Adrian Dutt talk to Joe Clay about pushing their abrasive sonics to the limit, putting on gigs in crypts and police cells with their label Howling Owl and why they're hoping their music will have the audience launching cheap booze their way