I seem to be writing about dungeon synth a lot these days and I’m not entirely sure why. Admittedly I have been buying a lot of it lately, but it’s not as if plenty of other genres aren’t making it onto the stereo at Life In The Vinyl Lane World HeadquartersTM. But for whatever reason […]
Tag: 1998
“Fire And Ice: Music From Iceland” Compilation (1998)
In 1998 most people knew nothing, or next to nothing, about Icelandic music. Yes, the Sugarcubes happened and Björk was half a decade into her solo career, and Sigur Rós was putting out their second album. If you were a big prog-head (and I mean in deep) they you probably knew of Icecross. And certainly […]
Nurse With Wound – “Second Pirate Session” (1998)
There are a number of quasi-obscure artists who fascinate me. These are musicians and bands who the average music fan (whatever that is) hasn’t ever heard of, and would probably hate, but which have a certain canonical place in the fringes where they dwell. Sometimes this makes me worry I’m being unconsciously pretentious, or perhaps […]