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From Thursday 23 April 2015

Carson Wells – ‘Tread a Northern Path’

To start this off, cast your eyes upwards to the album art. Firstly; corrr, that’d look lovely stretched across the packaging for a 12″ LP, wouldn’t it? Secondly, some album covers so perfectly encapsulate an album, a cohesive marriage between aural and visual representation; this second

Vanilla Pod – ‘Seeing Out The Sunrise’

2015 sees Vanilla Pod enter their twentieth year as a band and with a decent sized back catalogue behind them it would have been easy for them to decide to celebrate this milestone with a nostalgic re-release of their past material and nothing more. To their credit there’s

Tuesday 21 April 2015

Raketkanon – RKTKN#2

You like strange music, right? Of course you do, you’re looking at a website about punk music. Well, if you want something purely baffling to listen to, then go no further. Raketkanon’s first album, unsurprisingly called RKTKN#1 was a lovely (or not, actually) blast of music which sounded

Wire – ‘Wire’

It is something to marvel at when a band can create music for the best part of 40 years and still manage to sound relevant each time. One such band that has managed this is Wire. After emerging in 1977 with their post-punk masterpiece ‘Pink Flag’, they would

Phoenix Calling – ‘Forget Your Ghosts’

Since the alarming rise of Mallory Knox, it appears a few bands from the Cambridge area are hopping on the pop-rock radio wagon. Phoenix Calling, a five-piece hailing from Peterborough, are one such group. In the three short years that they’ve been around, these guys released their EP

Monday 20 April 2015

Lacey – ‘Under The Brightest Lights’

With another busy festival season just around the corner, Lacey make a strong claim for their place on your summer playlist with ‘Under The Brightest Lights’. Having honed their pop-rock sound with their 2013 ‘Outlaws’ EP, Lacey’s début album strikes the perfect balance between melody and muscle in

Friday 17 April 2015

Nai Harvest – ‘Hairball’

If you have been following the UK music scene for an extended period of time, you will undoubtedly be familiar with Nai Harvest. They have arguably become one of our best exports, and garnered huge acclaim with their debut album ‘Whatever’ in 2013, and would ultimately result in

Thursday 16 April 2015

Strung Out – ‘Transmission.Alpha.Delta’

As soon as ‘Rats In The Wall, the opening number from Strung Out’s eighth studio album, blares out of the speakers, it’s clear that ‘Tranmission.Alpha.Delta’ is going to be a masterful listen. For a band who have remained consistently on form throughout their 25 year plus history, it

As It Is – ‘Never Happy, Ever After’

Brighton via Minneapolis emo pop-punks As It Is have the weight of the world on their shoulders as they unleash ‘Never Happy, Ever After’ on the highly expectant world. Boasting one of the strongest online followings for any alternative artist out there, not least due to vocalist Patty

Wednesday 15 April 2015

We Are Harlot – ‘We Are Harlot’

‘Meet your new favourite band!!’ So begins the press release accompanying the début album from hair-metal revivalists, sorry, ‘Transcontinental rockers’ We Are Harlot.You can tell they’re transcontinental because the word ‘transcontinental’ is mentioned twice in as many sentences. In fact, so preoccupied is said press release with the nationalities of the