Amateur Childbirth – Your Afterlife is Cancelled [LP] Outer Rock (Noise / Psych / Free) The result was a minimalist

The result was a minimalist art-rock masterpiece which could be described as a lo-fi version of John Cale's Music For A New Society

watery lights of the filters

"Trapped" offers little of the claustrophobia suggested by its title

porcelain bowls and at times he used his voice

Amateur Childbirth – Your Afterlife is Cancelled [LP] Outer Rock (Noise / Psych / Free) The result was a minimalist"This is Amateur Childbirth's Christian Rock album. The previous LP from Ivan Matthew Hicks' solo project, 2015's Pripyat, concerned itself with the blighted belief systems of UFO worshippers, Your Afterlife Is Cancelled expands this compelling solo project's field of enquiry to look at a wider array of "religious anomalies" cults, for want of a better word. Each song is about a different such anomaly. To call Hicks' vision apocalyptic would be to