Marina Herlop - Dja Dja DESCENDENTS Celebrated Scottish new wave /

Celebrated Scottish new wave / post punk outfit Altered Images are back in 2022 with their first new material in nearly 40 years

gut-stretching years in the name of heavy metal

Byrne was inspired to enlist Ghost Train Orchestra for the album after hearing their 2023 tribute album to the blind New York composer and street poet Moondog

as well as tours in EU (August) and UK (November)

look for the northern start to help find direction back home

Marina Herlop - Dja Dja DESCENDENTS Celebrated Scottish new wave /Marina Herlop's Dja Dja opens like a held breath finally released: a violent celebration of life, though not the hedonist's easy yes. The exultation here is hard won, arrived at rather than assumed, an affirmation drawn up from reflection and a long inward descent, stripped of every navet. What animates it is a kind of undirected anger, rage reimagined as a creative force that spends itself in catharsis, and a gratitude so overwhelming it can no