You're browsing the archives

Next Page »
From Tuesday 21 January 2025

Pet Needs – ‘Kind Of Acoustic’

Pet Needs had a mission: to create “something warm, raw and organic. Something acoustic. Something that felt like the most true take as opposed to the most perfect” as frontman Johnny Marriott put it. The acoustic album that offers the other side of the coin on a band’s sound

Friday 29 November 2024

Hidden Mothers – ‘Erosion / Avulsion’

For most bands, the first track of an album is them setting their stalls out early, giving a brief but fully packaged taste of their sound, and lets the listener know what to expect. So as expected, the first track on ‘Erosion / Avulsion’, the debut full length from

Monday 25 November 2024

RedHook – ‘MUTATION’

Nothing defines the modern world like the rush of information. It’s difficult to sit and think without your brain being stimulated from hundreds of different directions. It can be exhausting. Just deciding what is important becomes a task in itself. Nothing exemplifies this more than TikTok. If

Tuesday 19 November 2024

Polar – ‘Five Arrows’

One way to celebrate your fifteenth anniversary is to release a new album, which is what hardcore quintet Polar have opted to do. Aren’t we meant to buy them a present to celebrate their anniversary, instead of them gifting us this new release? Nevertheless, ‘Five Arrows’ is unyielding in its

Wednesday 30 October 2024

Better Lovers – ‘Highly Irresponsible’

The opening gambit on ‘Highly Irresponsible’ feels like a sledgehammer blow to the eardrums. After a brief, understated instrumental piece, a maelstrom of low end chugging guitars, vocal yelps, and drums being viciously smashed comes together to create a wall of noise. It’s a real statement of intent that’s

Friday 25 October 2024

Chuck Ragan – ‘Love and Lore’

If we can count on one thing from a Chuck Ragan album, it’s honesty. The folk-punk multi-hyphenate, professional wilderness type and occasional Hot Water Music frontman has never avoided laying his soul bare through his music, and ‘Love and Lore’ is no exception. We haven’t had a proper solo

Wednesday 23 October 2024

Kids In Glass Houses – ‘PINK FLAMINGO’

Maybe you remember Kids In Glass Houses. Maybe you remember their first demos of ‘Flirting With Widows’ being uploaded to Myspace. Their first album. Their fourth. Maybe you attended their farewell tour. Maybe you’re glad they’re back after 11 years. Maybe you’re excited. Maybe you’re going to

Wednesday 09 October 2024

TouchĂ© AmorĂ© – Spiral In A Straight Line

What happens when grief finishes? That’s the question Jeremy Bolm of LA post-hardcore heroes TouchĂ© AmorĂ© wants to address. After his mother passed from cancer in 2014, his band’s album 2016 album ‘Stage Four’ was a natural reaction, as was 2020’s ‘Lament’. But Bolm made a choice to move

Tuesday 08 October 2024

The Offspring – ‘Supercharged’

Dexter Holland and Noodles know who they are, what kind of music they make, and who likes it. That’s not surprising; the Offspring has been a staple in the US punk scene for over thirty years, so if they haven’t worked it out by now, they probably weren’t going

Friday 04 October 2024

Trash Boat – ‘Heaven Can Wait’

Life is complicated, and Trash Boat have embraced the chaos. It’s been three years since we least heard from St Albans’ finest on record, and they’re continuing on the voyage of artistic self-discover that began with 2021’s ‘Don’t You Feel Amazing?’. The collectively-produced ‘Heaven Can Wait’ is one of