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From Friday 30 October 2015

Crooks – ‘Are We All the Same Distance Apart’

Cheltenham quintet Crooks have been hitting the touring scene hard since their inception; they’ve shared stages alongside the likes of Gallows, Your Demise, Basement, Marmozets and more. Over the years, they’ve released a couple of singles and an EP, but there’s always been that impatient thought of “When are

Thursday 29 October 2015

Enter Shikari – ‘The Mindsweep: Hospitalised’

Jungle saw the likes of Ronnie Size shoot to stardom in the 90s, which had both a commercial and underground scene which still exist today. This spawned Drum and Bass which saw the likes of Andy C commercially smashing it across festivals and arenas worldwide. There was and is

Wednesday 28 October 2015

Random Hand – ‘Hit Reset’

It’s rare that a band will call it quits and then release a brand new record. As something that’s pretty much seen exclusively in the punk rock community, Random Hand have done exactly that. The ska-punk tearaways from Yorkshire provide one last crowd-funded hurrah before they go on

Tuesday 27 October 2015

Beach Slang – ‘The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us’

It’s unclear just how Philadelphia’s Beach Slang are feeling. At times their debut full-length proper feels upbeat, catchy and energetic, yet battling with introspection. It’s a wistful celebration, a collection of songs that are both happy and sad. A sound that finds roots in punk, but owes an equal

Monday 26 October 2015

Let’s Talk Daggers – ‘A Beautiful Life’

If you were to look up ‘Marmite’ in the dictionary, chances are you would be met with a mug shot of Lets Talk Daggers. The Eastbourne trio are certainly making a lot of noises, but are they the right noises? On first listen of

Friday 23 October 2015

The Saddest Landscape – ‘Darkness Forgives’

After being humorously dubbed “The Wave”, the surge in popularity of post-hardcore (screamo, melodic hardcore, or whatever you wish to call it) is still going strong. Touche Amore, Pianos Become The Teeth, and La Dispute are all now bigger than anyone could have predicted. In some cases, sounding

Tuesday 20 October 2015

Coheed and Cambria – ‘The Colour Before the Sun’

Concept albums. Typically, if unfairly, seen as the last resort of a band low on ideas but high on many, many other things, the very words set off alarm bells despite having given the world such gems as ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’, ‘American Idiot’ and

Monday 19 October 2015

State Champs – ‘Around The World And Back’

It would be fair to say that State Champs are on a seemingly unstoppable upwards curve career-wise. 2013’s ‘The Finer Things’ set them on the road to pop-punk stardom and they haven’t looked back since. What’s more, countless festival appearances, headline tours, and support slots for the likes

Friday 16 October 2015

Junior – ‘JuniorLand’

At a time when all a pop-punk band needs to do is cough and they’d be compared to Neck Deep, Junior’s diverse approach on their new record ‘JuniorLand’ promises no such resemblance. Keeping their originality intact, the Cardiff based three piece have recorded a versatile

Thursday 15 October 2015

Coldrain – ‘Vena’

Coldrain, hailing from Nagoya, Japan are sometimes likened to their country-mates Crossfaith, which is a bit lazy in all honesty. There is about as much of the electronica-laced metalcore on ‘Vena’ as there is jam in the Atacama Desert. Simply likening them to another band from the same country