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From Thursday 01 November 2012

The Retrospective Soundtrack Players – ‘The Catcher in the Rye’

The Retrospective Soundtrack Players are less of a band and more of an art project. Taking their favourite books and films, the sextet interprets the plots into a twee amalgamation of folk and pop. To make the project even more implausible, for the band’s second full-length record they have

Wednesday 31 October 2012

Rolo Tomassi – ‘Astraea’

Regardless of whether you love ’em or hate ’em, you can’t deny that Rolo Tomassi are one of the most hard working bands in the UK. Eva Spence’s haunting vocal has been one of the most intriguing and mezmerising of the recent UK mathcore surge, and with ‘Astraea’, the

Wednesday 24 October 2012

Basement – ‘colourmeinkindness’

As with other bands in the scene that get a rough ride in our forums (Sharks being the primary example here), when you actually pick the music apart it’s hard to tell exactly why they’re singled out. Basement’s ‘colourmeinkindness’ is their supposed final record (see you in two years,

Tuesday 23 October 2012

Blood Command – ‘Funeral Beach’

It’s not that often you get to talk about punk rock bands from Norway (let alone those of the lady fronted variety), so it’s with pleasure that we’re to be able to say that the new record from Blood Command is as noisey as it is fun. From the bold

Tuesday 16 October 2012

P.O.S. – ‘We Don’t Even Live Here’

By our own admission, PT isn’t a hip hop website (clue is in the name, “yo”), so we’ll save everyone the trouble of slagging us off for displaying inferior knowledge of the wider genre. We’re reviewing P.O.S.’ ‘We Don’t Even Live Here’ simply because he’s an artist making hip

Thursday 11 October 2012

APE! – ‘1991’

They’ve been playing ‘skuzzy blown out heavy rock to whoever can stand them’ across the US east coast for five years now, but APE! have just gone and made a second album to show for it. One which seems to be a tale of two halves… Once an unnecessarily long

Tuesday 09 October 2012

Thrice – ‘Anthology’

Live albums are a funny one. Obviously they are no substitute for the live experience; and roughly 10 out of 10 music fans would rather be there than listen on CD if they had to pick one or the other. Sometimes though, they recreate a special, one-off experience like

Monday 08 October 2012

All Time Low – Don’t Panic

After stagnating somewhat on Interscope Records, Baltimore based pop punk quartet; All Time Low are back with a new album on new/old label Hopeless Records. With previous effort ‘Dirty Work’ not impressing as much as its two predecessors, ‘Don’t Panic’ feels like an album from a band that has

Saturday 06 October 2012

Seasons Collide – ‘Horizons’

Essex based five-piece Seasons Collide are relatively new to the UK music scene, having formed in early 2011. Their debut LP – recorded and released dangerously close to their inception – plays as if it was created by a band far more established. ‘Horizons’ is padded with the conventional

Thursday 04 October 2012

We Are The Physics – ‘Your Friend, The Atom’

Every now and then a new band comes along that seems to blow everyone else out of the water with a sound that is fresh, totally different, and that makes your jaw drop with just how good it is. Unluckily for us, half of these bands tend to get