A review this month of cover star Suntou Susso griot imbued album Jaliya Silokang. Plus the new SML album from @intlanthem.bsky.social, Snorkel, Shoko Nagai, Silver Nun, Yalla Miku and Tanne Delle Pigri. monolithcocktail.com/2025/11/04/t...

A review this month of cover star Suntou Susso griot imbued album Jaliya Silokang. Plus the new SML album from @intlanthem.bsky.social, Snorkel, Shoko Nagai, Silver Nun, Yalla Miku and Tanne Delle Pigri. monolithcocktail.com/2025/11/04/t...

Last house call for this year's Halloween playlist. monolithcocktail.com/2025/10/27/h...

Cosimo Querci - Rimane in @monolithcocktail.bsky.social October’s list!

End of the month Revue: Choice albums and tracks of October. @joelcusumano.bsky.social Amira Kheir, @prahrecordings.bsky.social NiCKY, @picniclunch.bsky.social Cosimo Querci @quindirecords.bsky.social @violetnox.bsky.social Tortoise @intlanthem.bsky.social monolithcocktail.com/2025/10/31/t...

Don 'Soul Dracula'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Pk...

Gloria 'Holy Water'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh9a...

The Halo Benders 'Devil City Destiny'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=38A7...

Dan Wool 'Oroboran'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=agBy...

Opal Onyx 'The Devil'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuER...

Salem Trials 'I Am Hexed'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UGn...

Annie Anxiety 'To Know Evil'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZv1...

Nenty 'Fiamma Ossidrica'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmcP...

Krisma 'Thank You' www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZFd...

A smattering of tracks from our various Halloween playlists over the years. Starting with Witch Fever 'The Hallow'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Iu...

Sonic terrors, fever dreams, mischief and atmospheres mass for this year's Halloween playlist. monolithcocktail.com/2025/10/27/h...

Sonic terrors, fever dreams, mischief and atmospheres mass for this year's Halloween playlist. monolithcocktail.com/2025/10/27/h...

A special highlighted piece on that post-everything Chicago unit Tortoise and their first LP in 9 years, Touch. @intlanthem.bsky.social Only time will tell if it becomes one of their most endurable and lasting influential works. monolithcocktail.com/2025/10/23/o...

A special highlighted piece on that post-everything Chicago unit Tortoise and their first LP in 9 years, Touch. @intlanthem.bsky.social Only time will tell if it becomes one of their most endurable and lasting influential works. monolithcocktail.com/2025/10/23/o...

Featured in this month's playlist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=he-S...

Another October highlight, London songwriter and performance artist NiCKY's upcoming EP 'With'. '...presents a new songbook of haunted, touching, tender and resilient balladry, theatre-esque numbers, behind closed doors masquerades and near heartbreaking drama.' nickys.bandcamp.com/album/with

'Journey To The Ancient'. An album of beauty and toil; of consciousness and the imagination; a balanced and congruous set of recordings that feels like a unifying statement of divinity, experimentation, hardships and free expression. #jazz #album wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/album/journe...

i'm going to post a smattering of tracks and albums reviewed or featured in this month's digest, starting with the Super Furry Animals. 20 years old last month, Love Kraft from 2005 and 'Frequency'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aKw...

Great #yusufmumin "Journey to the Ancient" LP review by Dom Valvona at Monolith Cocktail @monolithcocktail.bsky.social 🔥🔥 "An album of beauty and toil; of consciousness and the imagination" monolithcocktail.com/2025/10/20/t...

New albums and EP reviews this month from @violetnox.bsky.social NiCKY @prahrecordings.bsky.social Plus @wewantsounds.bsky.social collab with Yusef Mumin to bring some of his previously unreleased peregrinations and expressions to vinyl for the first time ever. monolithcocktail.com/2025/10/20/t...

New albums and EP reviews this month from @violetnox.bsky.social NiCKY @prahrecordings.bsky.social Plus @wewantsounds.bsky.social collab with Yusef Mumin to bring some of his previously unreleased peregrinations and expressions to vinyl for the first time ever. monolithcocktail.com/2025/10/20/t...

Thanks for the kind words @monolithcocktail.bsky.social !! (Kid in a Big World is a fantastic album, I played “Deadly Nightshade” the last time I DJ’d)

The vexed and twee; Medieval and brutal. Yes, its time for another round of instant reactions to new records by Brian 'Bordello' Shea. Inc. @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social @dandyboyrecords.bsky.social @joelcusumano.bsky.social @edwardrogers.bsky.social monolithcocktail.com/2025/10/16/o...

The vexed and twee; Medieval and brutal. Yes, its time for another round of instant reactions to new records by Brian 'Bordello' Shea. Inc. @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social @dandyboyrecords.bsky.social @joelcusumano.bsky.social @edwardrogers.bsky.social monolithcocktail.com/2025/10/16/o...

Almost reaching the end of our 15th anniversary celebrations playlist series. A track, more or less, from everything we ever reviewed or premiered on the site since 2010, in alphabetical order. Here are the T's and the U's. open.spotify.com/playlist/5hy...

Proud to be serialising Andrew C. Kidd's debut sci-fi novel Tennyson In Space during 2025. Here's the concluding chapters of 'Appel.E.'. #scifi #novel #fiction monolithcocktail.com/2025/10/10/t...

From this month's upcoming anniversary celebrating LPs haul - as feat in my Digest column -, 'Adelic Penguins' from Sakamoto's Esperanto album, released in 1985. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Kh...

From this month's upcoming anniversary celebrating LPs haul - as feat in my Digest column -, 'Adelic Penguins' from Sakamoto's Esperanto album, released in 1985. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Kh...

October's Perusal features the upcoming opus from Will Glaser, plus albums from Peter Evans’ Being & Becoming, Amira Kheir, Sebastián Rojas @buhrecords.bsky.social Cosimo Querci @quindirecords.bsky.social monolithcocktail.com/2025/10/06/t...

October's Perusal features the upcoming opus from Will Glaser, plus albums from Peter Evans’ Being & Becoming, Amira Kheir, Sebastián Rojas @buhrecords.bsky.social Cosimo Querci @quindirecords.bsky.social monolithcocktail.com/2025/10/06/t...

Only a few more of these playlists to go as we reach the S's in our alphabetical celebration of the site's 15th anniversary. A track - where possible - from every release we ever reviewed. open.spotify.com/playlist/434...

Only a few more of these playlists to go as we reach the S's in our alphabetical celebration of the site's 15th anniversary. A track - where possible - from every release we ever reviewed. open.spotify.com/playlist/434...

The end of the month revue and catch-up: choice releases and tracks from September. @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social @intlanthem.bsky.social @ltheadtrip.bsky.social @dyrfaser.bsky.social @buhrecords.bsky.social monolithcocktail.com/2025/09/30/t...

The end of the month revue and catch-up: choice releases and tracks from September. @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social @intlanthem.bsky.social @ltheadtrip.bsky.social @dyrfaser.bsky.social @buhrecords.bsky.social monolithcocktail.com/2025/09/30/t...

Hostile Engineering is out now via @fusedarrowrecords.com. Produced by @steeltippeddove.bsky.social this is my only full length album of 2025. "A magic combination of old hands from the underground scene" writes @monolithcocktail.bsky.social "One of the freshest hip-hop releases of 2025." 🔗⬇️

Just £1 will massively help a indie label at a time where grassroots music is suffering more than ever: Plus you can win cool prizes! difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/merch/daam-a... Please share with everyone you know!

Kicking off this month's Monolith cocktail Social playlist (volume 101), Wolf Parade's 'Shine A Light'. Taken from their Apologies To The Queen Mary debut LP, one of the noughties best albums, celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh8-...

Featured in this month's Monolith Cocktail social playlist (volume 101), A Tent 'Seven Years (Abundance)'. Full playlist on Spotify now, or visit the site homepage and scroll through the September Digest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo8B...

Also featured both in the archive and playlist sections of this month's Digest, #DavidBowie Outside LP, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this month. See comments for a link to my original review on one of David's most underrated and best LPs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pgQ...

Featured in the archive section of this month's Digest, a retrieved piece I wrote many many moons ago on CAN's Landed Lp, which is 50 this year. Here's just one choice piece from that overlooked album. #CAN #krautrock #cosmic #landed #anniversaryalbum www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-k9...

Featured in this month's social playlist (volume 101) Mew's 'The zookeeper's Boy', taken from their stunning LP, and one of the best of the noughties, Mew And the Glass Handed Kites - which celebrates its 20th anniversary this month. www.youtube.com/watch?v=um3a...

Sept Digest: reviews of Tom Skinner's ‘Kaleidoscopic Visions’ @intlanthem.bsky.social, archival pieces on CAN's Landed (50 this year), and David Bowie's 1.Outside LP (30 this month). New music and old in volume 101 of the Social Playlist. monolithcocktail.com/2025/09/22/t...

Sept Digest: reviews of Tom Skinner's ‘Kaleidoscopic Visions’ @intlanthem.bsky.social, archival pieces on CAN's Landed (50 this year), and David Bowie's 1.Outside LP (30 this month). New music and old in volume 101 of the Social Playlist. monolithcocktail.com/2025/09/22/t...

Celebrating our 15th anniversary this year, we've decided to create a series of playlists featuring a track from as many reviews as is possible; all catalogued in alphabetical order. Here's the R's. open.spotify.com/playlist/3mi...

Really cool reviews for the recent Frog and @veryverynoisy.bsky.social singles courtesy of @monolithcocktail.bsky.social!