FLANGER MAGAZINE - "After The Bend" LPFlanger Magazine After The Bend LP (Students of Decay, 2022) "After the Bend is the second album from Louisville based Flanger Magazine, and the follow up to FMs 2018 debut, Breslin. Whereas Breslin was the solo creation of Christopher Bush, an album noted for an astute synthesis of library music and solo acoustic guitar, and a seamless blend into the uncluttered and airier side of classic 1970s giallo, After the Bend is an ensemble affair. An

and a good-enough smile

I felt as if I was a visiting body watching a society implode

Sli Town Crier

the caveman has dumped the yak for the cavewoman

a vinyl with DJ Deeon (Dance Mania label)

and its sheer quantity of killer riffs

Hypnotist Beat

Nu metal bass riffs

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"I wrote about the debut cassette from Melbourne’s the SHIFTERS in the very first column that I did for MRR three years ago

laptop recordings of rehearsals

fittingly for a compilation which isn’t concerned to assert itself