Audio Anomaly Issue 1

Hello and welcome, to the very first issue of Audio Anomaly Magazine. A publication focused on covering a wide variety of music and artists, with a loose focus on smaller ones. In this magazine you can expect to see some amazing designs with some awesome music and people. As well as artists, the magazine will also cover a couple of musical topics, including, concept albums and a concept band.

This is the magazine I have wanted to make for a very long time but have never really found the time as writing a magazine takes a very long time. But as I finish up my third year of studying graphic design at college, I have now been given the opportunity to write and design this as my graded unit. Most music magazines today just don’t have the same spark as they used to. Most these days just talk about what’s new and the layouts are about as generic as you can get. I’ve used this to really get creative and shine light on some of my favourite artists through a beautifully designed publication. A special feature I have included is a song set list throughout and a Spotify playlist, accessed via QR code. With this you’ll be able to listen to the artists songs while you read, but if that throws you off you can always listen in your spare time. I really hope by the end of it you have a couple of new favourite artists and genres.

The songs to play on each page will be at the bottom left of either page on the spread.

Note, some pages may not have songs at the bottom.

SETLIST

It’s all in here.

PPC have come quite a long way, from just starting out as a university project to having formed their own record label, What Reality? Records in 2017. The band are very hands on, recording their own music and being directly involved with the advertisement side of things. They stated the reasons for doing this was “getting stuck into existence, taking a risk, pursuing ideas, setting goals and trying to dream big.” With such confidence it is no wonder how much they’ve grown.

Straight out of Perth, Australia, comes a band with one of the weirdest, most bizarre names out there. Psychedelic Porn (sometimes popcorn or prn) Crumpets are a psychedelic rock band, consisting of English guitarist and singer Jack McEwan, guitarist Luke Parish, drummer Danny Caddy, bassist Wayan Billondana, and keyboardist Chris Young. The band was formed in 2014 with their first album release in 2016 HighVisceral,Pt.1. They’ve been present ever since, touring all over the world. The band described their sound as “an energetic mess of colour and tone”. Right now your seeing the art from the 2016 album as this spreads background. When your giving the band a listen this is the best way to describe it through colour. The psychedelic genre is quite prominent with Australia, as the bands genre, vibe and sound is most commonly compared to other rock bands such as King Gizzard & The Lizzard Wizard (more on them later) and Tame Impala. With all good bands comes a great origin story and theirs is quite something. They pretty much all just met through their local drug dealer.

The band has been said to take musical inspiration from some classic rock bands, Led Zeppelin, Beatles and Black Sabbath. This is very much prominent in a variety of their tracks, slow, fast, heavy, instrumental, it is all there. My favourite track from the band has to be “Mundungus”, from the album, Shyga!TheSunlightMound. It is one of the faster and heavier ones from them. The singing is more harsh while the guitar is just being shredded like no tomorrow. This would have been criminal to leave out of the set list. For the list I have went and got a mix of songs with a variety in pace and sound. The band currently has 5 albums, HighVisceral,Pt.1 (2016), HighVisceral,Pt.2 (2017), And Now For The Whatchamacallit (2019), Shyga! The Sunlight Mound (2021) and finally Night Gnomes (2022). I highly recommend giving them all a good listen, cause oh man, they are something else!

“Cubensis Lenses” - High Visceral, Pt. 1 / “Acid Dent” - Night Gnomes / “Dezi’s Adventure” - And Now For The Whatchamacallit / “Nek” - High Visceral, Pt. 2 / “Mundungus” - Shyga! The Sunlight Mound

I’m sure one of the main things on peoples mind is, “why the name?” How does one create such a bold yet beautiful name. Let me tell you the god like origin story of the name, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets! Ahem. They just chose it at random and stuck with it because they found it amusing.

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omething I want to give a big shout out to is their three part psychedelic induced claymation story. From 2020 to 2021 the band released music videos for three of their songs, “Mr. Prism”, “TalleyHo” and “Pukebox”, all included in the album, three videos were made by only two people, Ollie Jones who directed and animated them and Brandon Kahn who composited and edited them. Before I start to discuss them I highly recommend checking them out before hand. You can catch the videos on Youtube and Facebook through the official channel and page. Spoiler warning over, lets dive into this madness. The first video (“Mr. Prism”) starts off with a parody of Alice in Wonderland. Alice is taking a stroll through some dark deep woods when she finds a box of doughnuts. When she takes a bite, she is then transported to a sweet filled like wonderland. There is a welcome sign and another saying “WHERE YOU CAN EAT ANYTHING”, but is shown that one sign has broke off saying “EXCEPT THE RESIDENTS”. From here is just goes batshit crazy as Alice starts eating the residents while real blood and guts pour out of them.

She then meets with the Mad Hatter and if you thought the video couldn’t get anymore fucked up, she then starts to eat him as well. By the end, Alice is the size of a Kaiju monster, breathing fire and all. Now we cut to the second video for “Tally-Ho”. This one

From here we are given a montage of him collecting bounties while the other hunter keeps showing up late as the chorus for the song plays throughout. Soon our main character is given a bounty. This is when the late bounty hunter comes into play as he comes after the bounty, shooting down the van

“Mr. Prism” - Shyga! The Sunlight Mound / “Tally-Ho” - Shyga! The Sunlight Mound / “Pukebox” - Shyga! The Sunlight Mound

Now we arrive at the finale of this cannibalistic, space trucking, bounty hunting, psychedelic adventure, and what a finale it is. We return to the planet from the first video to see that Alice has now became the ruler and turned the planet into some Mad Max hybrid. There’s toxic

Enter the bounty hunter, traveling to the planet with the slime king. When he arrives to the planet, he is quickly blown out of the sky by Alice getting split up from the slime king in the explosion. The slime king falls into a pool of toxic waste while the bounty hunter falls into an almost desert like area. He soon faints from exhaustion and is later retrieved by a doughnut resistance member. He awakes with a new arm as his cyborg arm was destroyed in the second video. Now with his new cookie arm he teams up with the resistance to take on Alice. Their plan is to shrink him down and fly into Alice’s mouth and blow her up form the inside using some candy C4.

When that plan fails after only making her vomit, the new plan is to construct some candy mech and take her on at her own size. The two then clash but even with the power of the mech, Alice is still too powerful and rips off the robots head and eats the head of the bounty hunter. The credits roll and that’s it, or so it seems as we are then given an after credits scene of the slime king rising from the waste now the size of Alice. He then proceeds to swallow her in one bite, growing so large he consumes the planet. Now that’s the ending. The three films are beautifully animated, I highly recommend checking out Ollie’s website at http://www.betterfeelingfilms.com

MEETING THE BAND

I n August of 2022, me and two of my friends, Douglas and Rachael, went to go see the band live at Saint Luke’s in Glasgow for our first time. The venue has a bar combined with it called the Winged Ox. When we got there we still had time to kill before the concert started so we went to chill in the beer garden for a bit. We could have never predicted what would happen next. So as we are chilling with a few pints, these men come out of the bar to sit down in the garden. Now this is still when I’m pretty new to the band so I’m not entirely sure what they look like. Douglas on the other hand has PPC as his favourite band of all time, so he for sure knew that the men sitting at the other end of the garden were Psychedelic Porn Crumpets. The next 10 minutes consisted of me and Rachael trying to convince Douglas to go other to speak to them as he was fangirling to much. Me and Douglas eventually went over and just had a chill 10 minute conversation with the band, with Douglas even getting a photo with all of them. Honestly such a crazy event. If you go to concerts about Edinburgh and Glasgow and see a band you like playing at Saint Luke’s, don’t miss out as it is one of the coolest venues I think I have ever been to. The venue is in an old church and when your seeing something like a psychedelic rock band, it completely nails the vibe, and honestly just makes the whole event that much more enjoyable.

NEXT EVENTS

Me and Douglas sure have been blessed lately, as the bands current tour is a UK + EU tour and the fact they are playing closer, with the venue this time being La Belle Angele in Edinburgh.

I am going to wrap things up here for PPC as I have so many more artists to talk about. I really hope you enjoy their vibe and music as much as I have over the past year

Now get your eyes peeled open for another psychedelic adventure, cause I got another band, you just might like

King Gizz’s name and genre is what you get when you stuff the whole alphabet into a blender and throw it against wall and see what sticks. While that may seem like a bad thing, they absolutely nail it with doing so many genres. Like PPC, Gizz are another psychedelic rock band based in Australia. With so many genres all the members of the band are multi instrumentalists so I’ve put them in a list to evenly spread them out. Currently the members of the band consist of:

Stu Mackenzie – vocals, guitars, keyboards, flute, bass guitar, percussion, sitar, piano, organ, violin, clarinet, saxophone, zurna, drums

Ambrose Kenny-Smith – vocals, harmonicas, keyboards, percussion, piano, saxophone, guitar, organ

Joey Walker – guitars, vocals, bass guitar, keyboards, piano, setar, percussion

Cook Craig – guitars, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, percussion, vocals

Lucas Harwood – bass guitar, piano, keyboards, percussion, vocals

Michael Cavanagh – drums, percussion, vocals.

The members all grew up and went to school in the Deniliquin, Melbourne and Geelong areas of Australia with the band forming in 2010 in Melbourne, Victoria. They have since produced 23 studio albums (with their 24th on the way this year), 15 live albums, 5 compilations, 3 EPs and a remix album. Now on the surface that sounds pretty overwhelming and you might think the band would maybe even be burnt out after such a feat. But that is quite the opposite. Each album stands out on its own, with something new for you to enjoy. The band loves making new music and experimenting with it as well.

As for the name of the band, is was apparently last minute with Stu wanting to call the band “Gizzard Gizzard” while another member wanted Jim Morrison’s nickname “Lizard King”. They eventually settled on the legendary name we all know and love today, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.

In a 2019 study conducted by the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard was ranked No. 21 in a list of the world’s hardest working musicians. This was earned due to the number of live shows they played from January 2018 to August 2019, totalling to 113 live

performances both domestically and internationally. It’s insane the amount of effort they put in. I just found out after recently seeing them in March (2023) that every single live setlist is different. On the 22nd March 2023 they performed at London, Ally Pally, with their setlist being:

“Gaia”, “Gila Monster”, “Robot Stop”, “Hot Water”, “Big Fig Wasp”, “Gamma Knife”, “Hypertension”, “Garden Goblin (Cookie Side)”, “Work This Time”, “Shanghai”, “The Grimm Reaper”, “Iron Lung”, “Magma” and “The Dripping Tap”.

Then just the next day at the Troxy (London), their setlist was:

“Hell”, “Predator X”, “Hot Wax”, “Inner Cell”, “Loyalty”, “Horology”, “Magenta Mountain”, “Straws In The Wind”, “K.G.L.W.”, “The Wheel”, “A New World”, “Altered Beast III”, “Alter Me III”, “Altered Beast IV”, “Lava”, “Ice V”, “Sadie Sorceress” and “Am I In Heaven”.

This just goes to show just how crazy these guys are with having explored: Psychedelic rock, garage rock, acid rock, progressive rock, surf rock, krautrock, psychedelic pop, indie rock, neo-psychedelia, heavy metal, thrash metal, stoner metal, sludge, groove metal, folk, jazz, tropicália, synth-prog and rap.

That still might not even be it, there is genuinely that much. With all those albums, comes plenty of art to accompany it. To showcase all of them I have created something on the next spread to really show them off in all their glory.

- Omnium Gatherum / “Shanghai” - Butterfly 3000 / “Work

Time” - Oddments / “Sense” - Paper Mâché Dream Balloon / “Mars For The Rich” - Infest The Rats’ Nest / “The Grim Reaper” - Omnium Gatherum

All Designed by Jason Galea

12 Bar Bruise - 2012

Eyes Like the Sky - 2013

Float Along - Fill Your Lungs - 2013

Oddments - 2014

I’m in Your Mind Fuzz - 2014

Quarters! - 2015

Paper Mâché Dream Balloon - 2015

Nonagon Infinity - 2016

Flying Microtonal Banana - 2017

Murder of the Universe - 2017

Sketches of Brunswick East (With Mild High Club) - 2017

Polygondwanaland - 2017 “Hypertension” Laminated Denim

PetroDragonic

Gumboot Soup - 2017

Fishing for Fishies - 2019

Infest the Rats’ Nest - 2019

KG - 2020

LW - 2021

Butterfly 3000 - 2021

Made in Timeland - 2022

Omnium Gatherum - 2022

Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava - 2022

Laminated Denim - 2022

Changes - 2022

Apocalypse Or Dawn Of Eternal Night: An Annihilation Of Planet Earth And The Beginning Of Merciless Damnation - 2023

Hey, so I want to talk about an album. An album, that takes you through a journey. A journey that leads you right back to the start, ready to do it all over again. But we just have to wait for the answer...

Because Nonagon Infinity opens the door!

Nonagon Infinity

A never ending song, spanning across 9 tracks, before looping back to the start. You just have to wait for the answer, because NonagonInfinity opens the door! There’s a bunch of fun time related motifs that occur throughout the album. The 5th song, “Mr.Beat”, runs in seven four times, switching to eight for every fourth measure, a literal missed beat.

The album used to loop infinitely on a dedicated website over at nonagoninfinity.com, but has since stopped, probably due to money and the band moving on to other projects.

It was even turned into a indie video game demo with each song connecting to a different level and genre of video game. Level 1 starting with a Super Mario/ Super Meat Boy style level for Robot Stop then switching to Wolfenstein for Big Fig Wasp and finally to Zelda for Gamma Knife. The game was never finished so all we got was the demo that lasts three songs. The game is gone now sadly but there are still videos on Youtube showcasing it.

The album connects back to the larger gizzverse. The gizzverse, being the bands unique concept of having every release connect in some form. In a 2017 interview, Stu Mackenzie confirmed this, saying, “They all exist in this parallel universe and they may be from different times and different places but they all can co-exist in a meaningful way”. Their albums also have a recurring cast of characters such as Han-Tyumi, a cyborg, peoplevultures, Bushrangers and Balrogs as well as “lightning gods, flesheating beasts, sages and space-faring eco rebels”.

The album is classed as concept album. Unlike regular albums, one with a concept will revolve around a collection of songs based around a central theme or concept, these are usually compositional, lyrical, instrumental, or narrative. I really love concept albums and what they can do as it just lets the artists get a little more bizarre with their work and feel more connected by telling a story though the tracks.

Even know the website and game demo are gone, I still love Nonagon Infinity both as a collection of songs and a concept album. I really like the idea of looping songs and this album is one of the best at nailing that.

Anyway where was I, oh yeah, A never ending song, spanning across 9 tracks, before looping back to the...

Okay, let’s take a little break from artists. Let’s talk concept albums. Your probably wondering what the difference is between normal and concept? Albums are often just a collection of songs with a few consistencies thrown in. Maybe they’re made around the same time or have a central idea in mind. But depending on how you go about bending the line, you can end up in something known as high concept territory. Narratives, callbacks, even just a common point of inspiration would fall under concept territory.

Wall

TheThe Wall, you’ve probably heard it before or you have that friend who won’t shut up about Pink Floyd every breathing second of the day. A bit cliché to talk about, but you get where I’m going with it. The Wall is a rock opera that explores the theme of abandonment and isolation symbolized by a wall. It draws on Waters’ own life. Telling the story of Pink, a rock singer, struggling to deal with the death of his father. The work is largely biographical as Waters’ own father died in World War II.

Throughout the album you’ll see themes of loss, betrayal, mental detachment, isolation, pain, oppression as Pink goes through his life building a mental wall of detachment between himself and the world. He becomes a rock star later in life falling into drugs, having his wife cheat on him completing his mental wall. Pink later spirals into insanity, imaging himself performing as a fascist dictator. He soon battles with these imaginary thoughts as it turns him into the sort of force that killed his father. He later comes to the realization the depths to which he has fallen and puts himself on trial and for the wall to be taken down. As stated on the official website “The Moral of the Story: Though there will almost always be personal and social barriers erected out of fear, oppression, pain, and isolation, it’s the job of every socially conscious individual and community to never rest in tearing down the walls that separate us.”

SongsFor TheDeaf

Queens of the Stone Ages third album, takes the listener on a road trip from Los Angeles to Joshua Tree, tuning into radio stations from the different towns along the way. “You Think I Ain’t Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like I’m A Millionaire” starts with you, the listener turning on the car and slamming the door shut. Then proceeding to cycle through radio stations. You then make your way downtown Los Angeles, your stuck in traffic while roasting alive in the car, your anger is showed through the song with it being one of the heavier ones on the track.

The tracks flow well with one another, either ending the song flicking to a new channel and hearing the different radio presenters, ones sarcastic, another hates his job, it’s just really funny to hear and adds character and life to the album with quite a bit of realism. One of my favourite transitions has to be “Hanging Tree” into “Go With The Flow” its so fast and realistic with how the song changes.

You’ll notice changes in the songs and stations the further you go in the car. The end of “Do It Again” has you going into the desert as the stations start getting weirder and start talking about god which feeds directly into the next song “God Is In The Radio”.

Fun facts: Dave Grohl (Nirvana/Foo Fighters) played drums for this album. The album cover is a tuning fork relating directly to the albums name, as deaf people would feel the vibrations .

W hy not a whole artist as a concept. Soup People an experimental genre and rap band from Australia/Austria. Throughout their songs you can expect to hear “soup” and only that. “Soup Ascension”, “Soup Wars”, “Soup

“Top Ten Soups”

In this one, they list their top ten soups. It helps him when he is depressed and he also wants to, well do that in the soup.

These guys are the smallest artist talked about in the magazine with 359 monthly listeners on Spotify. With information running a little dry, I reached out to them via their Instagram “soupthepeople” and asked if they would be down for an interview. I asked them some questions and they took some time to reflect on them. Some time later I was given a Google document with all the answers to my questions. Apparently the document appeared in their possession many years ago. “It came to us in a joint dream and then materialised as an uneditable google doc. When we saw its questions matched yours, we knew the time had come to pass it on”.

SOUP PEOPLE INTERVIEW

1. Who are the Soup People?

Soup Demon: Soup People are a music collective telling the story of soups for all. Officially a band, but we think of ourselves as storytellers, just messengers spreading the good word.

Soup God: My children, the fruits of my labour, my antithesis, my raison d’etre, my hubris, and my catharsis.

2. What are your roles in the band?

Soup Demon: I act mostly as an engineer/producer, and I try to polish the works from the rough demos that they start out as. I do co-write some of the songs but I’d say Soup God is the primary songwriter/lyricist.

Soup God: I recount the history of the current Soup epoch I find myself in.

Soup Demon: We also have some honourary members. Chase McSoup andPS1Hangrid/Soup Wizard were there from the beginning and have offered some production/lyrics for a few songs and in the live band, we’ve played with Lil Craig, Soup Spice, Broth Child and Boss “The Boss” Boss Jr.

3. How was Soup People formed?

Soup Demon: There were stories that needed telling.

Soup God: Let me paint a picture: It’s 2020 and amidst the lockdowns, a band manages to find a small window to get away to a faraway holiday house. The man whose house it is, and who generously offered to record the band, is driving up the semi-useless keyboard player. On the way, they’re showing each other music; math rock, metal, Death Grips, 100 Gecs. Fast forward a few days, it’s been a long day of recording and it’s time to have fun. The keyboard guy suggests making a rap song about something stupid, and so all of the people in the house start making penis music, which eventually morphs into a beat. The people look toward the keyboard player for a topic to write the song about and he decides on Top Ten Soups, inspired by the WatchMojo video of the same name. Have I painted the picture well? Now burn it and throw the ashes into a Borscht. I, Soup God (blessed be his name), live an endless life of death and rebirth. My earliest memory is hearing the Call of Soup, beckoning me into existence, filling my head with ideas and giving me the power to create a universe for the Soup People. Upon deep reflection I have realised the voice that woke me, that bore me in a bathtub, was none other than my own.

“Soup Ascension” / “Soup Wars” / “Soup Opera” / “Top Ten Soups” - Soup People

4. You said one of you is based in Australia, while the other is in Austria. How does that affect you when it comes to making music?

Soup God: We’re both based.

Soup Demon: We started out sort of working on the first song or two together but when one of us moved to Austria, we actually found that the dynamic of working on a track and then sending it over to the other person to let them work their own ideas into a song worked quite well for us. We would occasionally call and some tracks on the album were recorded over Discord and we’d make sure we’re both happy/on the same page with the final mixes etc.

5. You performed in Brunswick, Australia, at The Workers Club on 27/01/22. How was performing live for you guys?

Soup Demon: Playing live was a lot of fun. If we did it again, we’d have more people up on stage for most of the set and do it at a better venue but the night at The Workers was pretty legendary. It was recorded. It may eventually be released.

Soup God: It was really a lot of fun. I lost my voice for like a week afterwards. Our set was like an hour long and I think we managed to deliver a good performance, all things considered. I hope we can perform again one day soon, I am basically ready for it 24/7.

Soup Demon: We are not ready to play with a live band at a moment’s notice. Careful planning would be required to put on another show to the same if not larger extent.

6. Are the Soup People currently working on new music?

Soup Demon: No.

Soup God: tf you mean, yes.

7. Your genre seems pretty mixed, but how would you describe it and any influences along with it?

Soup Demon: We both like a lot of music. The stylistic choices we made along the way were just kind of whatever was going through our minds at the time. We didn’t stick hard and fast to any particular genre, but spoken word/rap is one element that is fairly consistent throughout the discography.

Soup God: I would describe it as mostly experimental rap. We love to make unexpected music so to speak, and I love to rap. Soup Demon also “learned” to “love” rapping, through “no” coercion of my own. We both serendipitously listened to similar music growing up, and so had a good foundation to start working together. Our influences are very broad, and we brought many different ones to the table, which was another contributor to the eclectic set of genres we touch on. It’s hard to know which specific musicians influenced the album since it’s so diverse so I’m just gonna say it was influenced by the voices I hear when I consume soup.

Soup Demon: That which is the most consistent element would have to be the use of sampling. Almost every track samples something, whether it be from renowned movies about dinosaurs, shitty food delivery commercials, controversial video game levels, music from wars that occur among stars TM, samples of our own shenanigans or even from the very video that inspired the formation of the group - sampling is big in our music.

8. Why the name Soup People?

Soup Demon: Because the songs are about soup. The fuck would you think we’d call ourselves, Non-Descript-Food People?

Soup God: Maybe our names can give you a clue.

“This Music is So Sad it Makes Me Want to Cry From My Penis Eye (Bonus Track)” - Soup People

9. Have any of you played in other bands before?

Soup Demon: Never. Soup god is over 3000 years old and I was only recently reborn after being locked away for many years - but neither of us felt any stories needed telling. We are big fans of a lot of other bands though; Plaza-TRG, Blackwood, Orange Orange, Hollow December, Sydney Miller, POQ,

10. Alright, this last question is pretty important, so get ready. What is everyone’s favourite soup?

Soup God: Loves all soups equally

Soup Demon: Hates all soups equally (real answer - Laksa [and crack])

Chase McSoup: Minestrone

PS1Hangrid: Bakso

Boss “The Boss” Boss Jr: Winter Vegetable

Broth Child: Creamy Potato

Lil Craig: Split Pea & Ham

Soup Spice: Quinoa, Chickpea & Cauliflower (with carrots too)

Honestly such an awesome interview and one that I’ll remember for years to come. Before we wrap up, I want to share some lore I received on the only song to not contain soup in the title or lyrics.

That’s it for soup. I hope you learned a little something about the mystical lore of Soup People.

The Go! Team The Go! Team

S witching it up to an indie hip hop/dance band from England. The Go! Team deliver some of the best instrumentals and songs I think I have ever heard. Originally starting out as solo project led by documentary film director Ian Parton who wanted to create music by incorporating hip hop and electro as well as double Dutch chants, distorted guitars with a mixture of funk and Bollywood soundtracks of all things. This eventually led to the release of the first EP Get It Together containing 4 songs all of which, being instrumental. It was released in 2000 by Pickled Egg Records. The EP was actually regularly played on BBC Radio 1 DJs by DJ John Peel.

It wouldn’t be until 2004/2005 till the first album dropped being Thunder, LightningStrike. Recorded in Parton’s parents house while they were on holiday. With no other members it was still him playing everything, including banjo, recorder, and piano. The album was co-produced by his sound engineer brother Gareth Parton. Now you saw I put a dash for it’s time of release and that’s because, while it did initially release in 2004 via Memphis Industries on the 13th of September. Parton made one big mistake, with haven gotten none of the multiple samples cleared before release. As he never thought it would gather the success that it ended up with. It was so critically acclaimed, that is was even nominated for

the 2005 Mercury Music Prize. Due to this, a clean “legal” version had to be made and after a painstaking year of reworking the album is was officially released via Columbia Records in October of 2005, now with two bonus tracks included.

In June of 2004 Parton was asked to perform at Accelerator Festival in Sweden. But having no band since it was just himself, he reached out and formed a band. He got British rapper Ninja, who took the role of lead vocalist; guitarist and drummer Sam Dook; drummer Chi Fukami Taylor; bassist Jamie Bell; and musician Silke Steidinger who would later be replaced by multi-instrumentalist Kaori Tschuida in late 2005. Since it was Parton just by himself before, there was a big change from solo artist to full on band affecting the way the band performed and shifted the direction of the music a bit. While it was defiantly still on the same theme of hip hop and everything alternative, the big difference was in that of Ninja as the lead singer. With her freestyle vocals the band live had became its own “separate identity”, as she would freestyle off existing studio instrumental tracks.

Since Lighting, Thunder, Strike in 2005 the band has released 6 albums bringing the total to 7. With their recent release of Get Up Sequences Part 2 in February of this year.

The current line up consists of Ian Parton – vocals, guitars, harmonica, piano, drums, triangle, glockenspiel, tambourine (2000–present)

Sam Dook – guitars, banjo, drums, tambourine (2004–present)

Ninja – vocals, drums, tambourine, recorder (2004–present)

Adam Znaidi – bass guitar (2018–present)

Niadzi Muzira – guitars, vocals, percussion, recorder (2020–present)

Jaleesa Gemerts – drums, percussion (2022–present)

Deanna Wilhelm – trumpet, vocals (2022–present)

I first found The Go! Team through my discover weekly on Spotify with the song “Junior Kickstart” from the album Lightning, Thunder, Strike. If your really into finding new music, which I mean hey, your reading this magazine. Use your Spotify discover weekly every week. The amount of bands, songs, people I’ve found throughout the years is amazing. My main playlist of 1600 odd songs has about 3/4s of it containing discover weekly songs

“Junior Kickstart” / “Huddle Formation” - Thunder, Lightning, Strike / “Ready To Go Steady” - Rolling Blackouts / “Doing It Right” - Proof of Youth / “Going Nowhere” - Get Up Sequences Part Two

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ere’s someone I’ve known since 2010, but never listened to his music till 2020. Jake Weary is an American actor and song writer from New Jersey.

How did I know about him for so long without looking into him? It is honestly such a dumb story. So as I mentioned he’s an actor, who’s played minor roles there and there with his biggest role being Deran Cody in the TNT drama series Animal Kingdom. But he also has another big role, that in the Fred films on Nickelodeon. For those who don’t know Fred was the first Youtube channel to hit 1 million subscribers on the platfrom back in 2009. He would put the pitch of his voice up and just do random stuff. Due to his popularity in the late 2000s and early 2010s he was given a deal with Nickelodeon to produce 3 TV movies and a show. The films and the show were a fever dream of awfulness, John Cena’s his dad, he hunts vampires and goes to camp Iwannapeepee. It was the best kind of awful though, so bad its good, kinda level. Anyway, in the films Fred has a bully called Kevin, played by Jake Weary. In 2020 me and a friend were watching the trilogy and I got curious and looked up what the cast are up to these days. I was pretty shocked with what Weary was like both in terms of appearance and life style. This eventually led me to his music. His genre, consisting of pop and electronic beats.

Since he is mainly an actor, music has been more of a hobby to him, and due to this there isn’t too much music produced by him. What we do have though is insanely good, with just 4 EPs and 2 singles which have slowly came out since 2011 to this year. With his latest release this year being the EP ROTD II consisting of 6 songs.

Weary got into playing, in middle/high school, when he was passed down an old Rickenbacker bass guitar from his godfather. He also learnt keyboard as said in “Interview Magazine” with him stating “We also had this keyboard in our living room that I started banging around on until I sounded somewhat decent.” He would later get into playing the drums and even played in bands during his middle school years. He was never much for lessons or reading music, always learning by ear until it worked.

With 6800 monthly Spotify listeners, Weary is still relatively small in the music industry with most songs only getting a couple 1000 listeners. With an exeption for the song “Jessie Don’t Dance”, garnering 272,000 listeners making it his biggest hit. Once you pair it up against some of his other songs you’ll quickly understand how this is so.

H ey, we heard you like kick ass instrumentals and songs that just make you wanna go! Gyom Amphoux is the 4 times Emmy Award Nominee, President, Composer & Producer at M-Rose Productions. Sadly there isn’t a great deal about them but I was able to find out their based round about the Greater Richmond Region in Virginia. As stated on the M-Rose website, their score ranges “From a soothing piano soundtrack to a full orchestral score or punk rock anthem; our music has been used in Blockbuster Movies, Trailers, TV shows and Commercials around the world.” They are always trying to bring the best quality tracks for different types of media.

I first found out about them back in May of 2021 when the song “Gotta Go” was used in a game trailer for “Sonic Colors: Ultimate”. When I first heard the song it was an instant repeat throughout the year, making it my top 4 most replayed song that year on Spotify and 27th the following year.

You may have already heard Gyom without even knowing it. Their tracks have been used in a variety of big blockbuster films and TV shows such as “Cars 3”, “Onward”, “Americas Got Talent”, “Sony”, “Nintendo” and many more.

Their studio consists of a wide variety of guitars, mixers, drums and plenty of other instruments to help them nail different genres.

Gyom has won a couple of awards throughout the years and been nominated for 4 Emmy Awards.

They won a Queen Palm International Film Festival award in 2018 for best music (feature) in the film “Long Lost”.

They won a “Reading Film Festival” in 2020.

In 2021 they won best original score in the terror in the bay film festival for the film “Night at the Eagle Inn”.

They have 40 albums at the moment in a variety of different genres for soundtracks and advertisements. The oldest date I could find was 2016 but I’m still not certain on when they started.

“Our motto is simple: to create music that moves and inspires.”

We are approaching the end now with this being the penultimate artist. The Death Set are an Australian experimental punk band now based in Brooklyn, New York. with duo Johnny Siera and Daniel Walker at the helm. The pair also delve into art punk, hip hop and electronica.

The band started in 2005 in Australia, but just 6 months after it’s creation they moved to the United States with both members living in Brooklyn at the moment. The band was originally formed with Johnny Siera and past member, Beau Velasco sharing vocal, guitar and production duties. The current line-up features Siera in the same role and Daniel Walker on guitar, vocals and production. Siera and Velasco first met in their home town of the Gold Coast when Siera went to see Velasco’s band at the time, Black Panda. Seeing the energy, Siera contacted Velasco and was later asked to join them on a tour of the East Coast. The two eventually moved to Sydney to focus on the band as a two piece group, thus renaming themselves The Death Set.

They are known for their “out of control shows”, even being awarded “Live Band of the Year” by Baltimore City paper. In 2008 they were joined by orignal Black Panda member Dan Walker on guitar and Jahphet “Roofeeo” Landis on drums.

Death of Beau Velasco

In September of 2009, Beau Velasco was found dead in his studio in New York City. While the band was completely devastated by this news they did what Velasco would have wanted and kept the band going. Many songs on the album Michel Poiccard are meant as a celebration of Velasco’s life and influence on the band.

In 2013 the band signed to Dim Mak Records for a four track EP entitled KingBabies. Once finished in 2014 the band would go on 7 year hiatus.

2021 Return

In 2021 the band returned from their long hiatus, now just with Siera and Walker. In August of that year, they released their single “Elephant” from their new album How to Tune a Parrot, just before the pandemic. After 3 more single releases the album was released on September 8, 2021, through Cobraside and Behemoth Records. They sadly haven’t released anything since but one can only hope they are working on something.

The band has done an impressive 600 tours in many countries, including: Australia, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Europe, Scandinavia, Puerto Rico and Mexico including spots at the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan, the Reading / Leeds Festivals, Secret Garden and Love Box Festivals in the United Kingdom, Dour Festival in Belgium, Oya Festival in Norway, North by Northeast music conference in Canada, Pohoda Festival in Slovakia, Pantiero, Cabaret Vert, Marsatac and Le Grand Souk Festivals in France, Festival Nrmal in Mexico, Falls Festival in Australia and five years showcasing at the South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas.

I first found out about the band from the 2013 E3 trailer for “Sunset Overdrive”, a parkour, zombie game developed by Insomniac Studios. The trailer featured this man running about a bright cartoon city with “They Come to Get Us” playing in the background matching the fast pace trailer.

THEJOYFORMIDABLE

S o the time has come. We’ve made it to the final artist of the magazine. The Joy Formidable has a special place in my heart from being featured in a game that really reawakened my love for games again. So who are the band? They’re a Welsh alternative rock band, that play some pretty inspiring beats

that just bring a smile to your face. They formed in 2007 in Mold, Flintshire, and are currently based in London, England. There are three members that make up the band, Rhiannon “Ritzy” Bryan (lead vocals, guitar), Rhydian Dafydd (bass, vocals) and Matthew James Thomas (drums, percussion).

Bryan and Dafdd were originally childhood friends, now couple. Playing in the band, Tricky Nixon, a four piece indie rock band based in Manchester, that lasted from 2003 to 2006. The band would later reform to make up Sidecar Kisses who would split in 2007. Regrouping and returning to

“Cradle” - The Big Roar / “The Turnaround” - Wolf’s Law / “Liana” - Hitch / “Whirring” - The Big Roar

their Welsh home town of Mold, The Joy Formidable was formed, now with Justin Stahley on drums. In July 2008, they released their first official single, “Austere”and have since made 5 albums, 15 singles and 1 live album.

In 2009, Stahley was replaced with Matthew James Thomas. Then in 2010, the band would start work on their debut album The Big Roar, recording it in London under Canvasback Records, a subsidiary of Atlantic. The Big Roar would then release in 2011 to critical acclaim and having the song “Whirring” become their best hit to this day.

The song was also featured in the 2023 game “Hi-Fi Rush”, a rhythm hack and slash game developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda. The song is used at a very emotional part with the chorus coming in as soon as the action kicks in. It’s honestly amazing. If your a fan of games, music and animation check out the game.

I sadly missed out seeing them this year in Glasgow, due to work. I really wish I could have gone and seen them as I’m sure it would have been awesome. If they ever tour near you, see them! I really wish I had got into them and everyone else in this magazine a lot sooner.

If your in the mood for some inspirational, emotional rock music give them a listen, their most recent album Into The Blue (2021) was given a deluxe version in 2022, I highly recommend checking that out along with all their other music .

Audio Anomaly

Credits: Artist Origins Research - Wikipedia & Instagram

Statistics for Songs - Spotify

The Wall Analysis Website - https://thewallanalysis.com

Reddit Thread for Songs For The Deaf - https://www.reddit.com/r/qotsa/comments/6y3gmn/songs_for_the_deaf_in_depth_ analysis_interactive/

Jake Weary Article - https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/jake-weary

M-Rose Productions Website - https://www.mroseproductions.com

The Death Set Biography - https://www.thedeathset.com/CURRENTWEBPAGES/bio.htm

Special Thanks to:

*Soup People

Delivering one of the best interviews of this dimension

*Douglas Greig

Manning up and having his photo taken with Psychedelic Porn Crumpets

Everyone Who Believed I Could Do This Magazine :)

SYNESTHESIA

The Glass Pyramids

This will be the last thing I ever design at Edinburgh College as a student. It’s been a weird, but awesome 4 years here and I’ll always remember it and the friends I’ve made along the way. This magazine represents who I am through design and music because without these two things, fuck knows what I’d be doing. I’m looking forward for what the future holds for me and what I can do with graphic design. See ya dudes!

This is just the back dude. All the good music stuff is inside. Oh, we do have a barcode back here though. It doesn’t really do much though since this magazine isn’t real.