Alastair Shuttleworth

1. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Alastair Shuttleworth

   Chat Pile: Who Loves the Sun review – sludge metallers resurface with a slightly limiting alt-rock rebrand (opens the original)

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   (The Flenser)The Oklahoma band use hooky vocals to help their lyrics on desensitisation slip down easy, though their third album lacks the distinction of earlier releases Chat Pile’s 2022 debut album God’s Country was monstrously, miraculously fully formed. The Oklahoma sludge-metal quartet’s oily guitars and grunting mid-tempo percussion conjured their namesake, mining toxic waste mounds, while Raygun Busch’s throat-shredding vocals drew from the city’s real-world violence. But their

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2. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Alastair Shuttleworth

   Mike D: ‘After Yauch died I couldn’t make music. I’d open a computer file and just feel sadness’ (opens the original)

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   As part of the Beastie Boys, the rapper shot to fame and notoriety in the 80s, before bandmate Adam Yauch’s death saw him withdraw from the spotlight. He returns with a solo album that sees him reckon with greed, mortality – and his past ‘It’s funny how far a joke will get you,” Michael Diamond grins. This time 40 years ago, the New York rapper known as Mike D was working with childhood friends Adam “MCA” Yauch and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz on Licensed to Ill, their 1986 debut a

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