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Gregor Barnett – ‘Don’t Go Throwing Roses In My Grave’

Anyone familiar with the latter work of The Menzingers will already be well aware of guitarist Gregor Barnett’s penchant for soulful tales of Americana. Ever since the band moved away from their scratchy, screamy punk beginnings and delved into reflective and soul-searching songwriting, Barnett’s love affair with the landscape

Tuesday 15 February 2022

Dan Andriano & the Bygones – ‘Dear Darkness’

At some point, Dan Andriano went from “the guy who plays bass in Alkaline Trio”, to one of music’s elder statesmen. It’s difficult to say when this happened, exactly, but he certainly has a well-regarded body of work behind him and now, with his main band in a stasis,

Wednesday 09 February 2022

Zeal & Ardor – ‘Zeal & Ardor’

The brainchild of Swiss musician and sole member Manuel Gagneux, Zeal & Ardor is one of the most interesting, uncompromising and unique contemporary metal bands on the planet. If you’re new to this band, we promise you’ve never heard anything quite like this before. So what exactly do they

Tuesday 08 February 2022

Knuckle Puck – ‘Disposable Life’

Throughout their 10+ years together, Knuckle Puck have consistently carved an emotional brand of pop-punk. While 2020’s suitably titled ’20/20’ record somewhat stepped away from that, allowing the quintet to be at their most upbeat, overall, it centred on an uplifting and looser songwriting approach. Now, as

Wednesday 02 February 2022

Rolo Tomassi – ‘Where Myth Becomes Memory’

Rolo Tomassi are a band that are impossible to pigeonhole into a genre. Maybe once upon a time you could’ve painted them with the mathcore brush, the progressive rock brush, the experimental brush or maybe even the post-hardcore brush, but none of those colours have ever really looked

Tuesday 01 February 2022

Perennial – ‘In the Midnight Hour’

When you hear Perennial describing themselves as ‘art punks’ it’s hard to know what to think. Inspired by the Seattle post-hardcore scene and the stripped-back power of The Hives, their sound is propelled by short bursts of garage rock riffing, all rounded out with keyboards and back-and-forth vocals. It’s

Saturday 29 January 2022

As It Is – ‘I Went to Hell and Back’

Having embraced a darker tone on 2018’s ‘The Great Depression’, the return of As It Is is very much on par as being the “light at the end of the tunnel”. With the departures of guitarist Benjamin Langford-Biss and drummer Patrick Foley, the band’s fourth album, ‘I Went

Thursday 27 January 2022

Bad Suns – ‘Apocolypse Whenever’

January. It’s cold, dark, miserable; the perfect time for a new album from Bad Suns. With their fourth full-length the California four-piece are offering another slice of light upbeat pop-rock, exactly what you need to chase away the winter blues. Having scoured chart hits from the 1980s for inspiration ‘Apocalypse

Tuesday 07 December 2021

Like Pacific – ‘Control My Sanity’

Going in to ‘Control My Sanity’, the third album from Ontario’s Like Pacific, was an odd experience. As someone who grew up through the Myspace and Tumblr years, it was instantly familiar. Familiar in a nostalgic way, of course, but also in such a way that it struggled to

Friday 26 November 2021

Pass Away – ‘Thirty Nine’

By and large, punk has connotations of being an aggressive, reactionary and often political genre of music. Conversely, pop-punk has a reputation of being whiny and overly emotional, lacking the edge of its parent. Recent years, however, have seen a middle ground emerge that’s equally as emotional as it