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Noel Gardner

Columns of the Year

Straight Hedge: The Best Punk And Hardcore Of 2022

Noel Gardner looks back at 2022's best punk and hardcore releases, picks his top ten from the year and rounds up a handful that got away
Columns of the Year

New Weird Britain: 2022 In Review By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner reflects on another year of bold and boundary-breaking sound from New Weird Britain, and rounds up his ten favourite releases plus ten great albums that flew under his radar
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain In Review For November By Noel Gardner

Your guide to the most weird, wonderful and diverse sounds from the UK underground returns, courtesy of Noel Gardner

Reviews

Horse Lords

Comradely Objects

The Baltimore quartet fuse bluegrass, house, post-punk and free jazz in wild new combinations, finds Noel Gardner
Reviews

Moin

Paste

Post-rock, live dub and some increasingly threatening spoken word – it's all in the mix with the latest from Joe Andrews, Tom Halstead and Valentina Magaletti, finds Noel Gardner
Album of the Week

Clean On Your Bean: Man With The Magic Soap By Persher

The duo of Jamie Roberts (Blawan) and Arthur Cayzer (Pariah) leave behind the acid froth for some maggoty post-genre techsludge
Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For October

Your buyer's guide to the best new punk and hardcore releases from around the world returns for October, with reviews of High Vis, Long Knife, Zero Again and more. Homepage photo: Balcanes by Sara Roca

Reviews

Concentration

Aren’t You Gonna Introduce Me To Your Friend?

Top notch shithousery on Bristol's Avon Terror Corps, finds Noel Gardner
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain In Review For September By Noel Gardner

From scornful Liverpudlian frostwave to a cosmic and molluscular journey through time and space, your guide to the finest sounds in New Weird Britain returns for another month

Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For August

Your guide to the world's finest new punk and hardcore releases returns for August, with reviews of Chat Pile, Gehenna, Trauma Bond and more
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain In Review For July By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner travels the highroads and byroads of these fair and foul isles in search of sonic sustenance for summer
Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For June

Noel Gardner salutes summer with another clutch of punk, hardcore, crust, oi etc. releases from around the globe. Home page photo: Axe Rash
News

A Guide To Supersonic 2022 By Noel Gardner

It's now less than a month until Supersonic 2022; Noel Gardner, our punk, hardcore & new weird Britain correspondent, rounds up the ten new or newish acts he's most keen about watching
Reviews

Petronn Sphene

Exit The Species

One half of Guttersnipe producing some fucked-up beat-choppage. Noel Gardner is suitably impressed
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain In Review For May By Noel Gardner

More weird, wonderful and diverse sounds from the UK underground as described by Noel Gardner
Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For April

Do you feel lucky punk? Well do you? That's good, because Noel Gardner is back with more of the stuff you love. Home page photo: Romero
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain In Review For March By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner's guide to the best of New Weird Britain returns, with extraordinary bursts of melody from Margate-via-Maine, the Bristolian blurring lines between techno and noise, fizzy meteorites of party-smashing illbience and more
Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For February

Noel Gardner, bringing you news of a band called THATCHER'S SNATCH, sprints back into the pit with all that is good, bad and ugly, or named THATCHER'S SNATCH, in international punk rock, hc, oi, D-beat and crust. And, did we mention THATCHER'S SNATCH?
Reviews

Bye Bye Tsunami

s/t

Copenhagen-based instrument inventors and banana fanciers erupt into belching jazz-noise jams, finds Noel Gardner
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain In Review For January By Noel Gardner

The selections Noel Gardner has made from the UK DIY underground this month are so good they have started to dissolve the very concept of time
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain: The UK’s Best Underground Music Of 2021

Punk

Straight Hedge! The Best Punk Of 2021

Noel Gardner looks back over 2021 and selects ten albums from his tQ column, plus another ten that got away
Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For November

Back once again like a renegade Manfred Mann, Noel Gardner spends his time "squelching in the batshit shitpit" just so he can back epistles from the punk rock front line. Home page photo: Shooting Daggers
Organic Intelligence

Organic Intelligence II: UK Breakcore

Our second ever Organic Intelligence newsletter sees Noel Gardner rep for the short lived but much missed UK breakcore
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain In Review For October By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner unearths some East Sussex noise, the world's first modular acoustic synth, RAF early warning techno, and other odd gems from the British DIY underground
Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Tresor 30

A new compilation celebrating 30 years of the essential Tresor Records is an immense undertaking, combining classic tracks from the Berlin label’s back catalogue and new specially recorded music

Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For September

Noel Gardner once again scales the filth ridden summits and strolls the verdant valley floors of international punk rock. Home page photograph Neon Christ live by Chuck Gill
Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Cameroon Garage Funk Reviewed

Through the 1970s there was a church in Cameroon where funk bands would go to record music into a single, exquisitely placed microphone. Noel Gardner studies the results on Analog Africa's latest
Reviews

Container

Creamer

Ren Schofield's new grot-coated offering is the sound of him tilting back to a rock sensibility, writes Noel Gardner
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain In Review For August By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner romps through Summer with a veritable NWB greatest hits... Home page photo: Lucy Railton and Kit Downes by Cristina Marx/Photomusic
Reviews

The Rebel

Remember Your Failure In The Cave

Lo-fi it may be, but Ben Wallers' latest outing as The Rebel has enough wit and absurdism to make anyone feel pleasantly queasy, finds Noel Gardner
Reviews

Orchestra Of Constant Distress

Concerns

Sweden's Orchestra Of Constant Distress return with their fourth album of pitch black noise rock
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