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From Wednesday 24 October 2018

Normandie – ‘White Flag’

Giving up. It’s something we’ve all done, whether we’d like to admit it or not – giving up on a relationship, a job, a dream, or just on all hope of ever getting a USB the right way up on the first attempt. So when Normandie announced that their

Tuesday 23 October 2018

Daughters – ‘You Won’t Get What You Want’

Being a music fan can turn you into a cynical bastard. Sure, we’ve all heard a lot of great music this year. But with every album or song that you can imagine available at the click of a button, its hard not to feel like you’ve heard it all

Monday 22 October 2018

Cloud Nothings – ‘Last Building Burning’

From the very first moment of ‘Last Building Burning’, you are thrown into the chaos of a Cloud Nothings live performance. The raw, incendiary tones rip through the whirlwind of a half an hour packaged up as the Ohio indie rockers’ fifth studio album. The latest

Disturbed – ‘Evolution’

You would think that a band who sprung into the world’s consciousness with a song as gloriously goofy as ‘Down With The Sickness’ would be destined to occupy nu-metal’s cavernous bargain bin. Disturbed instead avoided also-ran status by evolving their sound, and cultivating a surprisingly large cult following. This

Monday 15 October 2018

Hellions – ‘Rue’

Theatrics in music are most commonly found on the stage. Be it pyrotechnics, dry ice, CO2 cannons or Gene Simmons in a harness flying over your head, they’re a visual aid used to enhance the music. Every now and again, though,

Wednesday 10 October 2018

mewithoutYou – ‘[Untitled]’

The growth of Philadelphian experimental rock troupe mewithoutYou over much of the past two decades has been fascinating to watch. From the direct and bracing post-hardcore of debut album Life, through embracing folk rock on 2009’s ‘it’s all crazy! it’s all false! it’s all a dream! it’s alright’,

Friday 05 October 2018

Cursive – ‘Vitriola’

Cursive have never been a band to hold back, and their eighth studio album certainly doesn’t either. Through the lens of nihilism and desolation, ‘Vitriola’ sees the Omaha natives express their thoughts on modern society, comparing the artistic cycle of creation and destruction to that of society’s seemingly impending

Black Peaks – ‘All That Divides’

Brighton’s Black Peaks have set a very high standard for British rock. While other bands rely on backing tracks and aspiring to break onto daytime Radio 1, Black Peaks have spent the last few years focusing on writing some of the most interesting and visceral progressive music in the

twenty one pilots – ‘Trench’

“Welcome to Trench”, says a low, warped voice. Whether this statement is a threat or an invitation is hard to tell, being just two tracks into twenty one pilots’ latest conceptual venture: ‘Trench’. Openers ‘Jumpsuit’ and ‘Levitate’ run into one another, seemingly two halves of the same

Thursday 04 October 2018

You Me At Six – ‘VI’

Like most bands who have a solid grasp of the music industry in 2018, You Me At Six have acknowledged and embraced the need to develop their sound over the years, and their sixth album – unsurprisingly named ‘VI’ – is no exception to this trend. With each album, You