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From Monday 08 December 2014

The Smith Street Band – Throw Me In The River

Wil Wagner’s music shares plenty of similarities with typical blog rock stalwarts like Los Campesinos!, but he’s somehow found a way to ditch the kitsch, to purge his forerunners of their gimmicks and fill the void with sweaty, grinning sincerity. Both sonically and lyrically, ‘Throw Me in the

Friday 05 December 2014

The Lion And The Wolf – ‘Symptoms’

One of my most uncomfortable night’s sleep to date was spent on the floor of a dinghy student house in Southampton, lying on a sofa bed that had certainly seen better days. I was only there a matter of hours until my train back up to London and

Wednesday 03 December 2014

Kill It Kid – ‘You Owe Nothing’

Kill it Kid were widely tipped as a breakthrough band on their debut around five years ago. Now, on their third outing they’ve managed to shake off the old cliché of the ‘difficult second album’ but there’s still much scrutinizing and peering into the very soul of this grungy,

Tuesday 02 December 2014

Rancid – ‘…Honor Is All We Know’

Punk rock has been a staple of the music world for the best part of 40 years now, and it has seen a lot of changes in its time. Bands have come and gone, fashion became more important than passion, and ideals fell by the wayside in favour

Wednesday 26 November 2014

Aspiga – ‘What Happened To You?’

Many styles of music today can definitely make you feel nostalgic for a different time—maybe when you were back in high school and going to shows in church basements, or listening to a new CD in a friend’s car on a road trip. New Jersey’s Aspiga really bring

Tuesday 25 November 2014

Pacer – ‘Mechanical’

‘Mechanical’ is a relentless listen. Not ferocious nor overbearing, it never wavers from its intense gruff punk. Led by frontman Mark Pavey’s throaty vocals, from the opening bars of ‘Mariner’ the record offers thirty minutes of fast, nostalgic melody. By doing so, the unashamed homage to melodic punk

Thursday 13 November 2014

Wicked Snakes – ‘Sleep Dance’

Wicked Snakes, a four-piece rock band hailing from Staffordshire, crashed onto the scene last year: the abandonment of previous projects led to this young bunch getting together to create their own slick brand of psychedelic doom rock music. And it seems to have paid off – last year,

Tuesday 11 November 2014

Have Mercy – ‘A Place Of Our Own’

Now part of the impressive roster at Hopeless Records, ‘A Place Of Our Own’ sees Have Mercy take another step forward as they refine the sound that they impressed with on their début ‘The Earth Pushed Back’. The lyrical honesty is still at the forefront, emphasised immediately by

Friday 07 November 2014

Jesus Fucking Christ – Homophobia Is Like Totally Gay

Jesus Fucking Christ (Remi Semshaug Langseth) has dropped his debut release ‘Homophobia Is Like Totally Gay’, and for a one man project, it truly is something monstrous. It’s like an insane middle ground between electronic, punk and rap. There’s this cohesion of different genres that produces a monumental noise,

Tuesday 04 November 2014

Wank For Peace – Fail Forward

I’ll admit, ‘Fail Forward’ was mistakenly put on shuffle on its first play. That it managed to hold together as an album even with a random order of tracks shows just how easy Wank For Peace’s latest LP is to get into. After thirteen tracks, ‘Fail Forward’ doesn’t feel