I Thought I Heard A Sound

Listening with an open mind. Writing about what I hear. Do you have something interesting you'd like to share? Write Mick at thasoundblog@gmail.com. Twitter @thasoundblog

Sunday, September 6, 2026

Album Review: Jealous Yellow - Czech Vampires

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Prague was the right city for Jealous Yellow's chief sonic summoner, Benjamin Rea, to find himself housebound, as he has now extended th...
Friday, September 4, 2026

Album Review: Swanwriter - Melodies of Despair

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Vancouver multi-instrumentalist Koda clearly conveys a fair warning about what to expect when cracking the casket on one of their releases u...
Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Album Review: MoonDoctoR & Surly - 10 Days in San Antonio

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I'll often listen to interviews with DJs for their music recommendations. DJs are essentially professional music appreciators, after al...
Monday, August 31, 2026

Interview: The Eradicator

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Listen up, pusshead! You ain't nobody unless you're somebody on the squash court! It is the ultimate game of manly endurance, speed,...
Saturday, August 29, 2026

Album Review: Sistema de Entretenimiento - Arcade Punk

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Chongqing, China, one of the largest municipal districts in the world, may rightfully have laid claim to the title of Cyberpunk Capital, ear...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Album Review: Chuwi - Tierra

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Apparently there is a fair amount of hype around Puerto Rican electric plena quartet Chuwi, and it stems in part from their inclusion on a B...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Album Review: Forever ☆ - Second Gen Dream

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Wake up! There is a party raging on a cloud, and it's finally dipped low enough for you to hitch a ride. Kansas City's Forever ☆ hav...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Album Review: Shirley Scott - One For Me

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One for Me is literally One for Her , her being Shirley Scott, soul jazz pioneer and organist, and one of the few female bandleaders of the...
Monday, August 24, 2026

Album Review: Volatile Ways - Perfect Dark

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Commencing their warpath as a birthday gift from bassist Lewy Glass to vocalist Emily Beekmans, the group lives up to the premise of their ...
Sunday, August 23, 2026

Album Review: Gun - Neo Notown

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It's hard to overstate the mythic position that guns have within the contemporary imagination. Sources of power and dispensers of fear, ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Album Review: Forests - That's Not Very Mid-Century Modern Of You

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Alright, what have we got here? Epic fantasy setting. Hell in space, or maybe an open-air dungeon sunk into the inner rim of a volcano. Anta...
Monday, August 17, 2026

Album Review: Craft - White Noise and Black Metal

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Craft was quiet for quite a while before this. Granted, they've been quiet since as well, but at least there is a precedent for it now. ...
Saturday, August 15, 2026

Album Review: Paul Coleman - The Weather Man

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You don't have to dig much to pry up stories about artists getting screwed sideways in the music industry. The frequency and severity of...
Thursday, August 13, 2026

Album Review: Demon Eye - Prophecies and Lies

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In about 2017 or somewhere around then, all the little shops by me that are run by like one girl and sell mostly Sears catalog jewelry they ...
Friday, July 31, 2026

Album Review: Antibalas - Hourglass

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Sometimes, the ripple of an earshot can be heard around the world. The local is the expression of global conditions; global conditions are t...
Thursday, July 30, 2026

Album Review: Cattle - Sweet Dream,Tender Light and Your Memory

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Anytime you dare to pipe up about the hardships in your life, your struggles, the inherently cursed nature of the present state of things in...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Interview: The Arrivals

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If you could find something you love in your formative years and find a way to keep doing it for 30-plus years, wouldn't you? Not many p...
Thursday, July 23, 2026

Album Review: Blood of the Wolf - V:Indomitable

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Chicago metal, underappreciated, yet undeterred. Despite receiving little to no love across the rest of this cursed land, the Second City is...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Album Review: Liai - Pastoral Stills From Every Age

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A wrinkled evanescence. A chattering gem. Pearling curves which catch the light and curtail them into purple, blue, green, red, and yellow p...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

Album Review: Emma Aibara - u:phobia

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Generally, escapism is viewed dimly in society- at least it was for our parents and older siblings. Now they do it too and just avoid conver...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

Album Review: Flesh World - Into The Shroud

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Named for the infamous illicit-content periodical from Lynch's primetime soap Twin Peaks , Flesh World are a bit like a spinning strip o...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Album Review: Cross Record - Crush Me

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Loss is inevitable and superfluous. Everyone will lose someone, and everyone's loss will be felt by another. Dismal as this unavoidable ...
Friday, July 10, 2026

Album Review: Coilguns - Odd Love

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The raw angst and measured execution of 2018's Millennials easily made a thousand-strong fan out of a single man like such as myself, m...
Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Album Review: Sweat FM - Every Day Is Valentine's Day

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I wish I had known about Sweat FM's mix for "Death to America" off of Every Day Is Valentine's Day this past Fourth. Bump...
Thursday, July 2, 2026

Album Review: Crucifyre - Post Vulcanic Black

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Crucifyre is a Swedish death metal band comprised of frontman Erik "Tormentor" Sahlström and members of Shelter, Afflicted, Nasum,...
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Interview: Footballhead

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Footballhead started out as something of a hail mary on founder and vocalist Ryan's part, but has since steamrolled into one of the more...
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