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Tiger Army – ‘V’

It may have taken them the best part of nine years, but the legendary Tiger Army are finally back. Their last album, ‘IV: Music From Regions Beyond’, saw them move further away from their psychobilly roots and expand the more melodic elements of the bands arsenal. They had an

Thursday 19 May 2016

The Hotelier – ‘Goodness’

When Massachusetts’ outfit The Hotel Year morphed into The Hotelier with their seminal 2014 release, ‘Home Like Noplace Is There’, it marked a reawakening. Alongside a handful of contemporaries, their full-length brought with it a reinvention of their indie-punk or emo label. The Hotelier were offering experimentation without losing

Lonely the Brave – ‘Things Will Matter’

Cambridgeshire quintet Lonely the Brave have never been ones to shy away from soaring melodies and huge vocal hooks, which they’ve consistently demonstrated time and again in their previous releases ‘Backroads’ and ‘The Day’s War’. Since their inception, this band have set pulses and hearts racing and continues to

Wednesday 18 May 2016

The Stone Foxes – ‘Twelve Spells’

San Francisco’s The Stone Foxes play the kind of fuzzed-up, retro garage rock that’s been keeping Jack White in fancy hats and anti-smile serum for the last fifteen years. In other words, they sound pretty much exactly the way you’d expect a band called ‘The Stone Foxes’ to sound.

WRONG – ‘Wrong’

In this day and age, there are so many sub-genres of rock and metal. Probably more than you are able to count in your lifetime. There’s nothing wrong with bands fusing different influences together to create something different, and for the most part it’s a good thing. Sometimes you

Monday 16 May 2016

Nothing – ‘Tired Of Tomorrow’

To say that Nothing have a bleak story to tell would be understatement. Their 2014 debut, ‘Guilty Of Everything’, was a redemptive album that focused largely on vocalist Domenic Palermo’s incarceration for aggravated assault some years earlier. It received universal acclaim, topping several “Album Of The Year” list’s around

Saturday 14 May 2016

Zoax – ‘Zoax’

Still a band in relative infancy, ZOAX released EPs in 2014 and 2015, as ‘Is Everybody Listening?’ and ‘XIII’ offered fans all sorts of post hardcore infused rock goodness. Now it’s time to up the ante with their debut full length. Not content with rehashing their well-known alt/punk rock style,

Friday 13 May 2016

Head Wound City – ‘A New Wave Of Violence’

When your ranks include former members of The Blood Brothers, The Locust and indie-experimenters Yeah Yeah Yeahs, playing it safe is far from the agenda. Over ten years since their first batch of material, the eventual debut full-length by Californian five-piece Head Wound City, ‘A New Wave Of Violence’,

Thursday 12 May 2016

Verdun – ‘The Eternal Drift’s Canticles’

There’s something bad in the water in Montpellier, France. Something tainted and evil, that corrupts the mind and soul of anyone who dares drink from it. Something inky and black that turns normal people into vessels of sadness, despair and raging fury. The previous statements are all complete lies,

Polar – ‘No Cure No Saviour’

Album number three is always difficult to make. Album number three can also seem pretty daunting when you revolve your album around political topics when your first two albums didn’t really enter that market. But Polar have done just that; they’ve dived straight into the global issue of homelessness,