WRETCH FALAFEL

New PIL track!!!!!

2012-02-15T23:32:00.000Z

...The Wretch approves... album due May/June!!

More trouble in BLACK SABBATH land...

2012-02-03T12:36:00.000Z

Read Bill Ward's statement here...

WRETCH FALAFEL ARCHIVES - THE YOUNG GODS - Interview with Franz Treichler 21/7/93 - Originally appeared in NOSEBLEED 9

2012-01-14T03:29:00.000Z

(This interview originally appeared in NOSEBLEED fanzine Issue 9 in 1993. Elements of the introduction appeared in a different form as a short piece on the Young Gods in NOSEBLEED fanzine Issue 6 in 1992). You are now entering unmapped territory... by the year 2050, those of you who have taken the healthy option at 45 and spent a few years in suspended animation could well find yourselves

Tony Iommi... get well soon!

2012-01-11T02:16:00.001Z

WRETCH FALAFEL transmits a surge of curative vibes towards the Iron Man... story here

AMEBIX - Sonic Mass (Easy Action Records 2011)

2012-01-06T04:03:00.000Z

Amebix is one of a small number of noisy bands from the punk realms that seem to have this strange chokehold on those who have felt inspired by them. Undoubtedly not the fault of the band themselves, this has often bordered on a sinister reverence which overrules any manner of criticism. It could very well be as a result of their early dissolution, somehow sealing them in a preservation vat

Remembering Philip Lynott

2012-01-04T00:19:00.001Z

THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS (Peter Sís / The Penguin Press 2011)

2011-12-31T12:40:00.001Z

I first came across the work of Peter Sís in an exhibition of children’s illustration at the Imperial Stables of Prague Castle in 1998. This show was split over two huge rooms; one containing the work of 50 of the finest illustrators working in the Czech Republic; the other dedicated entirely to Peter Sís and featuring the stunning large originals from all of his books to

Remembering Jack Nance

2011-12-30T16:29:00.001Z

SOLAR FIELDS - Until We Meet The Sky (Ultimae Records 2011)

2011-12-28T16:45:00.000Z

The Solar Fields output over 10 albums has been eclectic, amorphous and impressive, shifting vehicle every couple of albums and facilitating a pick’n’mix outflow of high grade downbeat and ambient

CAFÉ DE L'ENFER - Marchant A Quatre Pattes Au Devant de la Redemption ( Steinklang Industries )

2011-12-25T17:52:00.000Z

With a stubbornly stereotyped path of military insignia, rabid samples of mid-20th century dictators and the same tone of brooding pomp over and over, the world of Martial/neo-classical music deserves greater evolution than it currently enjoys. I can’t help thinking that a considerable volume of entities working in this area picked up on the Laibach genetic and mutated it without

GARY NUMAN – Dead Son Rising ( Mortal Records )

2011-12-22T20:05:00.000Z

It’s been 5 years since any manner of recorded noise has seeped from the Mortal Records orifice. The interim has seen the REPLICAS anniversary tour in all its nostalgic recapitalisation fanfare, but now that the “classic album” binge has been and gone, (I can’t imagine that he’ll be giving I, ASSASSIN, or anything subsequent, the same treatment), the only direction for Gary Numan to go is

Remembering D. Boon and Joe Strummer

2011-12-22T12:34:00.000Z

YURT - ARCHIPELAGOG ( 2011 ) - FREE HQ album download.

2011-12-21T00:42:00.001Z

On this, the occasion of the winter solstice 2011, the sonic elders of YURT bestow upon you a construct - ARCHIPELAGOG. Conceived in cryopreservation and auricularly manifested through progressive oscillation, this wretched behemoth hereby receives a terrestrial presentation for your listening pleasure. The sonic elders of YURT have spoken. Download for free HERE in a variety of

DAVID LYNCH – Crazy Clown Time ( Play It Again Sam )

2011-12-15T19:38:00.001Z

Caution was taken in approaching this item as I have unerring faith in this man. What he has injected into the cultural climate of the last 30 years is surrealistic hope against a barrage of stultifying mediocrity. No stranger to the audio process, David Lynch has been a lyricist for Julee Cruise, frequent contributor to the soundtracks of his own movies and has his name on several odds and

WRETCH FALAFEL ARCHIVES - THE DICKIES - Interview with Leonard Graves Phillips 3/6/99 - Originally appeared in NOSEBLEED 19

2011-12-14T13:33:00.002Z

In terms of significant historic US pop punk, the forerunners will always be the Ramones and the Dickies, and while the bowl-hair freaks from Queens have the crown wrapped up pretty much forever, their one regret must be the lack of at least one international hit single. The Dickies achieved this with their rendition of the Banana Splits theme tune, reaching *7 in the UK charts in 1979. One

WHERE WERE YOU? – DUBLIN YOUTH CULTURE & STREET STYLE 1950-2000 ( Garry O’Neill / Hi Tone Books 2011 )

2011-12-12T00:25:00.001Z

The prevailing habit of documenting Dublin’s youth has always been to roll out tales of stale bread, carbolic soap, ten to a bed and death by TB before the age of 5. The stuff of hard spuds, hard warts and hard guilt in the grey old parish of Ireland reached well into the 1970s and still makes for column inches, not-so-great Irish novels and short filler TV series. There’s no doubt

A notice from housekeeping...

2011-12-11T03:36:00.001Z

Please note that there's still considerable weeding to be done on some of the archives, especially anything over 6 months old. We will be clearing out the rodents and cobwebs slowly over the next month or so. Notifications of updated material will be posted on our new facebook page https://www.facebook.com/wretchfalafel ...

XENO AND OAKLANDER – SET AND LIGHTS ( Wierd Records )

2011-12-06T21:24:00.001Z

There’s an instinctive symbiosis that comes with a rare few synth-based duos... something vaguely detectable in the quality that’s difficult to put in words... like a digital genetic compatibility... whatever it is, Chris & Cosey, Yazoo, November Növelet, Absolute Body Control all had it and Xeno and Oaklander seem to finally be mainlined into it. This is the point at which this Brooklyn

FISHBONE – CRAZY GLUE ( DC-Jam Records )

2011-12-02T22:38:00.001Z

An exploding bauble of luck once cast its shrapnel about the ranks of a certain generation of loud west coast American bands... shards of it struck those who didn’t need it, those who were grateful of it and those who were positively undeserving of it. None of it seemed to land in the Fishbone encampment. This maelstrom of talent basically sat through a couple of generations worth of bands

The sonic elders of YURT announce a new construct... ( 12/2011 )

2011-12-01T02:05:00.000Z

ROGUE SPORE - ARTIFICIAL PLACENTA (RS3) ( 2011 ) - FREE HQ album download.

2011-09-24T12:56:00.001+01:00

The ROGUE SPORE is pleased to announce the immediate release of RS3 - ARTIFICIAL PLACENTA. An album of amphibious electronics for free download in a variety of high quality and compressed formats... RS3 - ARTIFICIAL PLACENTA ( 2011 ) 01 - Capsaicinoid 02 - Mutt Drinks From Puddle 03 - Cordyceps 04 - Valporate 05 - The Scythe

CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS – TwentyThree ( Ultimae Records 2011 )

2011-08-05T20:46:00.005+01:00

This is the densest that Gothenburg's Carbon Based Lifeforms have ever sounded. Their previous output all the way back to the Notch incarnation traded on electronic sound with a very definite pulse, whether it was beats, underlying melody or sequences. TWENTY THREE is not so much a primal u-turn but an insular indulgence in layers of ambient sound that have previously been at the base of

CATSCARS – Construction ( White Plague Records 2011 )

2011-07-19T16:08:00.001+01:00

Issued back in March of this year, the economically titled CONSTRUCTION is the debut from one of the more interesting electronic entities currently operating in Dublin. Rough mixes posted on myspace a year or 2 ago pointed towards the evolution of a non-derivatave sound and this instantly sparked an interest. This is the result of 2 years of sporadic conjuring, or as stated by Catscars, “ a

BIOSPHERE – N-Plants ( Touch 2011 )

2011-07-10T18:59:00.004+01:00

A few years back, Geir Jenssen planted a diatribe on his webspace stating that Biosphere was no longer touring due to the general unhealthy lifestyle that comes with the trappings of endless crappy food, airports, hotels, air conditioning etc. Instead, he was simply going to stay in Norway, compose and breath clean air. This conscientiously low carbon footprint approach has always come across

ESTEL - A Massive, Glorious, Uphill, Shit-Fight ( Little Plastic Tapes/Headwrecker 2011)

2011-07-07T22:48:00.017+01:00

Dublin is by no means exclusive in it’s ability to be a harsh environment to that which sticks around for longer than the ever decreasing attention span of it’s troglodyte and subterranean music audience, but operating here is far from favourable. It’s an undeniably difficult tunnel to crouch through, with no promise of a pinhole of light ahead, if you accept it be that way. The other way is