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From Wednesday 22 March 2017

The Dollyrots – ‘Whiplash Splash’

Being funded entirely through a Pledge campaign, The Dollyrots’ ‘Whiplash Splash’ celebrates community and a love for music. Not content with sending pledgers vinyls, guitars and one-of-a-kind polaroids, The Dollyrots have allowed pledgers access to the album a month early. Focusing on your fans when promoting an

Tuesday 21 March 2017

Mayday Parade – ‘A Lesson In Romantics’ 10th Anniversary Edition

Another album has turned ten years old and another unnecessary anniversary version has been released. Sometimes the past is best left in the past, and Mayday Parade’s ‘A Lesson In Romantics’ is a perfect example for the argument. A scene kid’s dream in 2007, the album sounds just as

Monday 20 March 2017

Parachute For Gordo – ‘Possibility Of Not’

Many will identify post-rock as being contemplative, maybe a touch melancholy. It’s music for careful introspection behind rain-lashed windows. Based on their third full length, ‘Possibility Of Not’, Aldershot based trio Parachute For Gordo can’t help but disagree, for theirs is a sunshine spin on the genre, their noodling

Friday 17 March 2017

She Must Burn – Grimoire

Putting out music that challenges the listener is always a risk. The chance of success is more likely to be dwarfed by the near certainty of some kind of failure. When She Must Burn released their self titled EP a while back they gambled on people liking their mix

Counterfeit – ‘Together We Are Stronger’

London punk rockers Counterfeit explode into existence with the release of their debut record ‘Together We Are Stronger’. We might only be mid-way through March but there’s already been a sleuth of debut releases of exemplary quality and this album is no different. Opening track ‘Washed Out’ kicks the album

Tuesday 14 March 2017

Planning For Burial – ‘Below The House’

There is nothing about the music of Planning For Burial that could be deemed conventional; at least not in terms of style. For Thom Wasluck there are no boundaries or genre confines to adhere to with his art, owing him the freedom to create a sound unlike any other.

Friday 10 March 2017

Greg Graffin – ‘Millport’

Once in a while an artist comes along who seems to nail whatever they try their hand at. Greg Graffin is one such man. The Bad Religion front man takes some time away from the punk stalwarts to express his inner country side once more. Unlike the sombre tones of his

Foresterr – ‘The Town Dies Screaming’

Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath meets Sonic Youth at their most atonal; John Spencer Blues Explosion on steroids; the illegitimate offspring of The Birthday Party and Swans. These are big names to throw around, and heavy too, but all are apt descriptions for Foresterr’s war torn sound.

All Them Witches – Sleeping Through The War

Nashville’s own All Them Witches serve up another steamy slice of bluesy psych-rock with their fourth studio album, ‘Sleeping Through The War’. But in a climate where more and more bands are making it big by looking backwards, and half a decade on from their formation, do the retro

Thursday 09 March 2017

Hyenas – ‘Deadweights’

From the late ‘90s to somewhere roughly around the mid-’00s, the heavy music scene was a flourishing birthing ground for legions of progressive, angular bands whose goal was to redefine hardcore beyond the tough posturing and thuggish machismo the genre was, until that point, most commonly associated