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From Wednesday 23 September 2020

Jamie Lenman – ‘King of Clubs’

It’s hard to know what to expect before pushing play on Jamie Lenman’s latest album, ‘King of Clubs’. Lenman is an artist who’s built a solo career on confounding expectations, never taking the most obvious route. Trying to guess the direction he’ll go in next is a fool’s errand,

Tuesday 22 September 2020

The Menzingers – ‘From Exile’

It’s hard to think of a better name for ‘From Exile’, the latest release from Scranton, PA’s The Menzingers. The record is a track-for-track acoustic reworking of latest album ‘Hello Exile’, and was completed in lockdown – or exile, if you will. Recording occurred remotely, with each band member

Monday 21 September 2020

Movements – ‘No Good Left to Give’

It’s been less than six years since Movements formed in early 2015, but this California four-piece have already found their musical niche, shining brightly among their peers. But if ‘Feel Something’ was a shooting star, ‘No Good Left to Give’ is a goddamn supernova. And

Friday 18 September 2020

DIG NITTY – ‘Reverse of Mastery’

There’s a whole heap of sounds we cover here at Punktastic. Ranging from hardcore metal to DIY indie punk, we try and keep you covered. One we don’t touch that often is lo-fi surf folk rock. But for Brooklyn four-piece Dig Nitty, that might be the best way to

Thursday 17 September 2020

Knuckle Puck – ’20/20′

Five years after releasing their debut record, Knuckle Puck are gearing up to release their third full-length, ’20/20′, an album they’ve approached with optimism and positivity. And if the goal was to spread that positivity, then it’s been achieved – the album is full of sunshine,

Wednesday 16 September 2020

Napalm Death – ‘Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism’

Napalm Death are as close to a national institution as an extreme metal band are going to get. A 39 year career, spanning 16 albums, has granted them legend status in the UK underground; they’ve played to thousands at Glastonbury, are featured in the Guinness Book of

Fit For A King – ‘The Path’

Texas metalcore giants Fit For A King are back with yet another record, but it’s likely not the record you were expecting. Riding on the success of 2018 record ‘Dark Skies’, which has now amassed a whopping fifty million streams, the band have made a slight alteration to

Tuesday 15 September 2020

Mother’s Cake – ‘Cyberfunk!’

Ten years on from the release of their self-titled debut EP, Austrian psych rock trio Mother’s Cake present ‘Cyberfunk!’, serving up 12 tracks of space-infused prog rock mayhem. Over the past decade they’ve toured extensively worldwide, released one EP, three studio albums, and two live albums, the most recent

Monday 14 September 2020

Yours Truly – ‘Self Care’

If you’ve been emotionally hurt by the absence of the usual yearly wave of pop punk, you won’t have to be in pain for much longer. Sydney based quartet Yours Truly are about to release debut album ‘Self Care’ and it single-handedly makes everything better. Borne out of

Friday 11 September 2020

Mad Sin – ‘Unbreakable’

For those unfamiliar with the stylings of Mad Sin, just imagine the slick licks of early Tiger Army, the boisterous vocals of Bad Manners, and the general chaos of Turbonegro. After a decade in the wilderness, Germany’s psychobilly/punkabilly royalty are back with 14th studio record ‘Unbreakable’.