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From 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

Dinosaur Pile-Up – ‘Eleven Eleven’

What started out as a revitalising take on British grunge; the creative outlet and brainchild of one-man machine Matt Bigland has developed into much more over time. Providing a relatively straightforward yet highly commendable debut ‘Growing Pains’ in 2010, 2013’s ‘Nature Nurture’ follow-up saw Dinosaur Pile-Up cement their distinctive

Zebrahead – ‘Walk The Plank’

Zebrahead have been knocking around for almost 20 years now, but we don’t associate them with the long lasting, ever successful punk names like Green Day. Why not? Racing pop ska punk isn’t for everyone but Zebrahead’s new album ‘Walk The Plank’ is a good ‘un. Over a career of

Wednesday 14 October 2015

Nothing But Thieves – ‘Nothing But Thieves’

Nothing But Thieves are lost in the void. Not alternative enough for the diehard alternatives; not indie enough for the hipster crowds and too complex for the pop market. By no means the first to find themselves in such a predicament, the Southend-on-Sea five-piece are left with little

Tuesday 13 October 2015

Allison Weiss – ‘New Love’

Allison Weiss has always been severely underrated (in the UK, at least) for reasons unknown – her vocals are so strong, her songs are so catchy, her lyrics are so heartfelt. This comparable unknown won’t last for long. With her sophomore release, ‘New Love’, Weiss has made a perfect pop