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From Sunday 31 July 2016

Rob Lynch – ‘Baby, I’m A Runaway’

Having toured his debut album extensively, including a stint on the US Warped Tour a few years ago, English singer-songwriter Rob Lynch has returned with ‘Baby, I’m A Runaway’; a more refined, cultivated and better produced second outing. Musically, ‘Baby, I’m A Runaway’ is very similar

Friday 29 July 2016

Steve Adamyk Band – ‘Graceland’

There are certain areas of the world that, for one reason or another, breed some of the best bands and best music. Japan is one, Denton, Texas is another and the entire nation of Canada seems to be yet another. Canada’s Steve Adamyk Band are back with their fifth

Wednesday 27 July 2016

Owen – ‘The King Of Whys’

“The Kinsella Sound” isn’t something you can really describe; you just know it when you hear it. For years the Kinsella brothers have been making some of the most influential music to come out of the Midwest, most notably in Cap’N Jazz, American Football and Joan Of Arc. Yet

Cane Hill – ‘Smile’

To press ‘play’ on ‘Smile’, the début album from New Orleans metal mob Cane Hill, is to activate an all-encompassing nostalgia for Ross Robinson production, Todd MacFarlane artwork and nihilistic slogans daubed on school textbooks. The album is so savage a slab of unadulterated, 00s-inflected metal that the band’s hometown

Tuesday 26 July 2016

TTNG – ‘Disappointment Island’

‘Disappointment Island’ is TTNG’s third album, their first since becoming a three-piece in 2013. Although vocalist Henry Tremain now assumes the dual responsibility of bass and vocals, this record is no less musically complex, meaning those expecting the math-rock veterans to serve up interesting time signatures, complex

Monday 25 July 2016

GATES – ‘Parallel Lives’

From opener ‘Forget’ beginning with a simple minor chord hook, the twin influences of Alchemy Index/ Beggars era Thrice and some of The National’s later work are immediately present, particularly so in the style of drums played and their counterpoint to the main body of their respective songs. Gates’

Friday 22 July 2016

Capsize – ‘A Reintroduction: The Essence Of All That Surrounds Me’

Defining choruses and melodic deliverance go hand in hand on Capsize’s new record ‘A Reintroduction: The Essence of All That Surrounds Me’. The album is harshly composed but compelling, pushing the band closer to prominence, under the lights of the post-hardcore dream. Their music could be perceived as being haunting

Thursday 21 July 2016

JPNSGRLS – ‘Divorce’

Hailing from Japans futuristic capital city of Tokyo, these ladies are rewriting the laws on all things J-pop. Okay, that was a slight fabrication of the truth, JPNSGRLS are in actual fact: four dudes from Vancouver that play kick ass rock music. Tours with the likes of Turbowolf and

Saosin – ‘Along the Shadow’

Twelve years ago, Saosin held open auditions to replace vocalist Anthony Green who left the band for personal reasons after only recording one EP, ‘Translating the Name’. Cover Reber would go on to take the helm, following a demo tape that sounded so similar to Green’s vocal styling, guitarist

Descendents – ‘Hypercaffium Spazzinate’

“The world just kicked our ass again,” Descendents vocalist Milo Aukerman admits on the ultimately defiant ‘We Got Defeat’. Surely an understatement considering the band’s well-documented health battles since the release of 2004’s ‘Cool To Be You’ which have seen drummer Bill Stevenson overcome a brain tumour and bassist