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From Wednesday 29 June 2016

Evarose – ‘Invisible Monsters’

This album’s been a long time coming. Years back, Evarose – under a different name – treaded the boards at small venues across Oxfordshire, when there was a smidgen of an alternative scene to speak of. Fast forward ten years: their friends had their turns in the spotlight in

Tuesday 28 June 2016

With Confidence – ‘Better Weather’

For over 20 years Hopeless Records have been churning out pop punk band after pop punk band, designed to be poster boys and girls of the alternative scene. Some have gone on to achieve great things – establishing themselves and the label. However, many have taken a transparent nosedive.

Monday 27 June 2016

Happy Accidents – ‘You Might Be Right’

‘You Might Be Right’, the debut album by London trio Happy Accidents, is filled with contradiction. Their inherently pained lyrics sit above effortlessly mesmerising pop-hooks. There’s an entrenched melancholy hidden beneath the upbeat frivolity that’ll cement the album as both an insatiable soundtrack to the summer months and a

Friday 24 June 2016

Direct Hit – ‘Wasted Mind’

In its twelve tracks, ‘Wasted Mind’ – the third full-length by Milwaukee’s Direct Hit! and their first on Fat Wreck Chords – provides a tale of consistent drug use. A concept album about narcotics following the exploits of a series under the influence outcasts, the music follows suit. Neither

Thursday 23 June 2016

My Jerusalem – ‘A Little Death’

From the brooding opener ‘Young Leather’, ‘A Little Death’ – the third full-length by Texas based My Jerusalem – presents itself as fundamentally unclassifiable. The first album since transitioning from an artistic collective to a firmly cemented band, the record travels from ‘Rabbit Rabbit’’s commercial hooks to the driving

Wednesday 22 June 2016

Pinkwash – ‘Collective Sigh’

For the members of Pinkwash, naming their debut record ‘Collective Sigh’ couldn’t be a more appropriate album title. It is a record born out of frustration and desperation, and is the aural equivalent of a deep intake of air, followed by a long and anguished exhale. Tackling subjects of

Night School – ‘Blush’

Every so often a very special album comes along. That is the best possible way to describe ‘Blush’, the debut album from Californian trio, Night School. After their well-received 2014 EP, ‘Heart Beat’, which is both raw and sweet in equal measure, and a split with their Graveface Records

Odonis Odonis – ‘Post Plague’

‘Betrayal’, the penultimate track on Toronto based industrial-punks Odonis Odonis’ thirty-minute onslaught ‘Post Plague’, is like a jackhammer to the brain. With its heavy synth-led techno opening, it breaks briefly for an unsettling ethereal post-punk rest bite before relaunching into its unapologetic electro punches. It’s indicative of the remainder

Monday 20 June 2016

Angel Du$t – ‘Rock The Fuck On Forever’

Lets get one thing straight from the start; ‘Rock The Fuck On Forever’ is probably the best album title of the year so far, right? Of course it means that Angel Du$t needed to make sure that their second album rocks harder than anything else right now. Thankfully, they

Tuesday 14 June 2016

Trash Boat – ‘Nothing I Write You Can Change What You’ve Been Through’

The Wonder Years vocalist Dan Campbell’s involvement in ‘Nothing I Write You Can Change What You’ve Been Through’ is telling. Not only appearing prominently on album opener and lead single, ‘Strangers’, Campbell has handled production duties on Trash Boat’s debut full-length. Juxtaposed against the juvenile turn of phrase in