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From Monday 23 May 2016

Youth Code – ‘Commitment To Complications’

Youth Code are an important band. In a time of stale punk rock and countless 90s revivalists, its about time someone came along and shook things up a bit. Coming from hardcore and punk stock, the L.A. duo of Sara Taylor and Ryan George are one of very few

Issues – ‘Headspace’

Since their first EP in 2012, Issues have endeavoured to do something different. Whether it’s mixing poppy, R&B vocals with downtuned, heavy guitars, or keeping our nu-metal memories alive with scratching samples and screamed vocals, the band have tried a variety of methods to make themselves stand out. Putting

Friday 20 May 2016

Helen Love – ‘Smash Hits’

Helen Love have existed for almost twenty-five years, releasing twenty-one singles, three EPs and seven albums during that time. Yet you are forgiven if you’ve yet to hear of the Welsh oddities. For much of that time, the now three-piece have existed predominately in the underground, rarely making live

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,