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Brutai – ‘Born’

Brutai seem to have popped up out of nowhere to a huge round of applause. Aside from those who religiously visit Tech Fest, not many people talked about them, and now here we are: a debut album on Transcend Music, Radio 1 play,

Saturday 17 December 2016

Megosh – ‘Apostasy’

Sometimes you can be oblivious to how bored you are with something until you’re forced into a new experience. If you have a favourite restaurant, for example, it’s natural to gravitate there whenever you want a nice meal, but being taken to a new place instead can open your

Friday 16 December 2016

Beans on Toast – ‘A Spanner In The Works’

Having long gotten rid of the stigma of just being Frank Turner’s mate, Beans on Toast has his own army of fans, and having stuck to his own made rule of a new album every year, released on the same day, the singer refuses to be out of touch

Headstone Horrors – Tales From The Murder House

We know what happened when corpse paint met metal. Some people took things way too seriously and a few Scandinavians even decided to start a church reduction campaign. Thankfully things have calmed down a bit now and we have the splendidly tongue in cheek Evil Scarecrow singing about cyborg

Wednesday 14 December 2016

‘Get Better: A Film About Frank Turner’

Streamed across the country via satellite, Frank Turner’s film premiere – accompanied by a Q&A, solo acoustic performance, and some technical difficulties (the sound didn’t work in some venues for more than 20 minutes at the opening) – was an unexpected event. One that most of us never expected

Monday 12 December 2016

Yearbook – ‘I Stop Somewhere Waiting For You’

It must be hard to feel like this. It’s taken three years for Yearbook to write, record and release their debut album; three years on an album that they’ve poured their heart and soul into; three years to give it their all until there really is nothing

Thursday 08 December 2016

Enemies – ‘Valuables’

All things must come to an end. It’s one of the only certainties we have in life. But, endings don’t always have to be negative, bitter experiences. They can be joyous, celebratory, triumphant. ‘Valuables’, the final album from Enemies is just that. After almost a decade of writing, recording and

Monday 05 December 2016

The So So Glos – ‘Kamikaze’

New York’s The So So Glos are back with their mix of bratty indie-punk for their fourth record ‘Kamikaze’. Drawing on equal parts from Leftover Crack’s anarchic rock and The Strokes’ refined riffs, with their own garage-punk inflections, the physicality New York pervades all throughout ‘Kamikaze’, as

Conspire – ‘The Scenic Route’

Florida quintet Conspire have been likened to melodic hardcore heavyweights Being As An Ocean, the alternative rock of Balance and Composure, and the post-hardcore beauty of Touché Amore. And with the release of their stunning album ‘The Scenic Route’, it’s easy to see why – they capture the moving

Friday 02 December 2016

Busted – ‘Night Driver’

Anyone shuddering at the thought of Charlie, James, and Matt, now in their 30s, adhering to nostalgia and thrashing out twelve mindless pop songs about teenage teacher fantasies and an underwater future, will be relieved that ‘Night Driver’ couldn’t be further from anything the band managed over a decade