Kubra Commander’s ‘Metabolic’ is, easily, this label’s strongest longform release this year. I confess to waxing lyrical before I drop bombs, but allow me to shift gears this time and say this in the plainest declarative: Kubra Commander’s ‘Metabolic’ is, easily, this label’s strongest longform release this year. It treads that razor-thin wire between heart [...]

“Heart of Ifugao” – though a tad more centrist and M.O.R. than what the band’s been aiming for in more recent memory – sees O&L lending an expert hand to a worthy tale-in-verse. There was a time Orange & Lemons could out-Anglophile any jangly Britpop-wannabe outfit this side of the tropics. I mean that’s still [...]