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From Friday 27 August 2021

The Bronx – ‘Bronx VI’

Realistically, this review could be two sentences long. If so, it would go something like this: The Bronx doesn’t make bad records. If you like the band already, you have to listen to ‘The Bronx VI’. That’s because it’s hard to review an album like this – it’s another Bronx

Thursday 26 August 2021

Jinjer – ‘Wallflowers’

Ukraine isn’t the first place you’d think of when it comes to brutal and unrelenting metal, but Jinjer are changing that. The technical metal quartet burst through the ranks after the video for their single ‘Pisces’ went viral, the diversity and power of lead singer Tatiana Shmailyuk blowing

Wednesday 25 August 2021

Chubby and the Gang – ‘The Mutt’s Nuts’

“Welcome to the Chubby and the Gang show,” Charlie “Chubby” Manning-Walker proclaims as the final bars of opener ‘The Mutt’s Nuts’ ring out. For the British punk scene of 2021, there really is only one show in town, and it’s the West London beatniks with their unique in-your-face sound. Springing

Tuesday 24 August 2021

Gloo – ‘How Not To Be Happy’

Made up of brothers Thomas and Max Harfield alongside bassist Simon Keet, Gloo came blasting out of Brighton back in 2017. They quickly made a mark on the scene with their debut album, which they followed with 2019’s seven-track EP ‘Stop and Stare’; for new album ‘How Not To

Sugar Horse – ‘The Live Long After’

Even in their Bristol hometown, Sugar Horse are a strange band. Something of a hotbed for creative talent, they came lurching out of its depths back in 2019 and over the course of two EPs have earned themselves quite a reputation – mainly because they like to do things

Monday 23 August 2021

Between The Buried And Me – ‘Colors II’

Every band has a record that makes their blip on the musical radar glow far brighter. An album that sees a band completely lock into their sound, so breathtaking and special that its brilliance is impossible to ignore. For progressive metal masterminds Between The Buried And Me, that

Strange Bones – ‘England Screams’

Music is almost always an extension of personality. Bouncing, cheery pop punk, or angsty lo-fi sad boi acoustic vibes; it’s a mirror of feelings, not only for the bands but for the listener themselves. Not all of us can be poets, so we rely on the words and thoughts

Thursday 19 August 2021

Deafheaven – ‘Infinite Granite’

Deafheaven have never been a band to take the easiest route creatively, and ‘Infinite Granite’ sees them take another bold step forward. Over the past decade, they’ve established a reputation as one of the leading lights of the ‘Blackgaze’ genre, blending black metal with shoegaze – with this record,

Wednesday 18 August 2021

Settle Your Scores – ‘Retrofit’

2021 has seen an apparent revival for the pop-punk genre. Whether it’s the chart-topping Olivia Rodrigo hit ‘good 4 u’, or Travis Barker collaborating with names such as Machine Gun Kelly, KennyHoopla, WILLOW, and JXDN, pop-punk has become a hot topic again. Despite it being “current”, you have to question

Tuesday 17 August 2021

Wolves In The Throne Room – ‘Primordial Arcana’

Wolves in the Throne Room are one of the US black metal scene’s finest exports, and one of the most interesting black metal bands to be found anywhere in the world. They’re a band that manage to find the beauty in rock’s heaviest, filthiest sounding genre. The result is