‘It’s discombobulating and plainly odd, though that’s surely precisely what made the Melvins out to be quite so rowdily spectacular in the first instance…’

Dots & Dashes review a meaty exhibit in the Washingtonians’ burly covers collection, Everybody Loves Sausages.

I’ll Be Your Mirror returned to northernmost London reach, boasting a quintessentially outré rundown which took in everything from thrash metal heralds (Slayer), sludge pukers (Sleep), sadcore progenitors (Codeine) and cutesy pop pairings (Tennis and to a substantially lesser degree, the Tall Firs). To quote pretty much every bloody band on the bill, “Thanks Barry; Deborah.” For finer weekends may now be few and far between…

Review: Friday, 25th May / Saturday, 26th May / Sunday, 27th May.
Gallery: Friday, 25th May / Saturday, 26th May / Sunday, 27th May.

I’ll Be Your Mirror, Alexandra Palace, 25th May 2012.

In our first of this year’s Fest Bests features, we examine this month’s I’ll Be Your Mirror and pluck out some subjective highlights from Death Grips & Antoni Maiovvi & Demdike Stare & the Dirty Three & the Melvins.

Read up and stream some stuff here.

For further info of a more official persuasion, head here whilst it’s this one here for tickets.