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From Wednesday 12 August 2015

Neck Deep – ‘Life’s Not Out To Get You’

In a climate where a significant proportion of pop-punk bands are trying to disassociate themselves with the increasingly clichéd foundations of the genre, Wrexham five-piece Neck Deep have established a diehard following by doing the opposite. Their debut full-length was arguably unadventurous and safe, but clearly tapped into a

Monday 10 August 2015

We’ll Go Machete – ‘Smile Club’

We’ll Go Machete’s Paul Warner screeches his lyrics with an urgency that perfectly encapsulates this record. ‘Smile Club’ is a wonky, energetic album that sounds like a band desperately clinging to their Shellac records while chugging the dregs of the awful coffee Tommy Lee Jones

Monday 03 August 2015

Don Broco – ‘Automatic’

‘Automatic’, the eagerly awaited sophomore full-length by Bedford swagger-merchants Don Broco, is their funk opus. Funky and soulful, the record merges bygone eras with the quartet’s distinctive modern rhythmic rock; rocketing the eighties headfirst into the present day. The sometimes off-putting bravado of earlier material thankfully sacrificed for

Saturday 01 August 2015

Counterparts – ‘Tragedy Will Find Us’

Canadian hardcore mob Counterparts are here to shout in your face until blue, their disappointment and anger at people coming across in this shouty LP, their third full-length. On the back of a relationship meltdown, frontman Brendan Murphy, numbed to the core allowed the therapy of recording this

Friday 31 July 2015

Bad Cop/Bad Cop – ‘Not Sorry’

Bad Cop/Bad Cop’s debut album is the sound of four feisty California girls channelling their passion and surroundings into their music. ‘Not Sorry’ is a fun record that is steeped in the history they are now a part of. ‘Like, Seriously?’ sums up this feeling with its confident, almost

Lamb Of God – ‘VII Sturm Und Drang’

It would have been predictable and easy for Lamb Of God to create an overly self-indulgent album reflecting on Randy Blythe’s incarceration for manslaughter in the Czech Republic. Many bands would have done just so and probably have been celebrated for doing it. The reason that Lamb Of

Thursday 30 July 2015

Brigades – ‘Indefinite’

“With each release,” starts the press release accompanying ‘Indefinite’, “Brigades push the boundaries of their sound and continuously evolve”. Now, let’s be honest: this is mostly codswallop. One doesn’t need to listen to this, the debut album from “South Carolina’s breakout pop-punk band” – a description which is at best

Wednesday 29 July 2015

Camera Shy – ‘Self-Titled’

When musicians have a vast musical taste and influence, it’s always great to see them expressing such things through various creative outlets. This is the case for Californian duo Camera Shy, who are certainly no strangers to wearing several hats, and spend their time in numerous other bands.

Nature Channel – ‘Nature Sounds’

‘Nature Sounds’ is a dirty, fuzzy, garage-punk mess of an album, in the best way possible. Nature Channel’s debut shoves the best that Seattle and New York have to offer through a blender of Englishness that results in a delightfully sickly-sounding record. There’s a beating heart of passive-aggression inside

Tuesday 28 July 2015

Arthur Walwin – ‘Sleepless’

Despite having been in pop rock bands Paige and Young Classics, vocalist and all-round musician Arthur Walwin has taken a step back from that scene with his newest album, and is instead embracing the straight-up pop and electronic dance world. It’s been a work in progress; after two years,