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From 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

Thursday 01 December 2016

LITE – ‘Cubic’

It only takes the first two minutes of ‘Cubic’ to convince you that Japanese math-rock quartet LITE are worthy of your time. As the brain-scrambling riff of opener ‘Else’ wanders agnostically through time-signatures, the technical proficiency alone is worthy of admiration, but more remarkable is the way the band

Celeb Car Crash – ‘People Are The Best Show’

Influenced by grunge and alternative rock, ‘People Are The Best Show’ is Celeb Car Crash’s second studio album. First single ‘Let Me In’, with its filthy guitars and Michelangelo Naldini’s dynamic drumming, is a perfect opening to a hard-hitting rock record. ‘Outdone’ is an absolute belter

Wednesday 30 November 2016

Ion Dissonance – ‘Cast The First Stone’

There are a lot of different synonyms for “angry”. You’ve probably read all of them at some point if you read a lot of heavy music reviews (we’re a pretty angry bunch). Imagine taking all of those words, scrunching them up, putting that ball of anger in the heart

Vanishing Life – ‘Surveillance’

‘Punk rock’ and ‘super groups’ are two concepts that, when uttered in the same sentence, create a wave of anguish that washes over the listener with the expectation of disappointment. For every Fugazi or OFF!, there’s the crushing mediocrity of an Audioslave or Velvet Revolver, so it’s a