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From Monday 11 June 2018

Mayday Parade – ‘Sunnyland’

When bands release outstanding debut albums, there’s always a concern that they’ll spend the rest of their careers struggling to top it. If you ask any fan of Mayday Parade what their favourite album is, they will in all likelihood respond with ‘A Lesson In Romantics’, the band’s very

Tuesday 05 June 2018

Haggard Cat – ‘Challenger’

If you don’t support the things you love, they will inevitably disappear. The music industry has undertaken a terrible sea change in recent years, with even the bands on the major labels struggling to make ends meet. The stories of Deaf Havana’s guitarist still working at the

Thursday 24 May 2018

At The Gates – ‘To Drink From The Night Itself’

On the list of bands who you’d be fairly confident would never get back together, At The Gates used to be pretty high. Following a rigorous and destructive tour on the back of their masterpiece album, ‘Slaughter Of The Soul’, the band fell to pieces quite spectacularly,

Tuesday 22 May 2018

Royal Mob – ‘Cinematic’

It’s understandable that the current reaction to any sentence featuring the word “Royal” is rapid recoil, or at least indulgence in some serious eyerolling. Don’t disappear yet, though – this Royal isn’t followed by “Wedding”… Instead, we have Royal Mob; a four-piece Danish band  inspired by Brit bands like

Thursday 17 May 2018

I, The Mapmaker – ‘Searching’

Debut EPs almost always seem to represent an unfettered opportunity.  I, The Mapmaker, a melodic hardcore quintet, present with their debut ‘Searching’, an ambitious effort, rich with complexity and dynamism. Opener ‘Ghostwalker’ floods the listener with mesmerising harmonies, abound with fluid and

Tuesday 15 May 2018

illuminati hotties – ‘Kiss Yr Frenemies’

Some bands create noise. Others create music. A minor few create art. And for Sarah Tudzin, the engineer, producer, and mastermind behind illuminati hotties, she’s firmly in the last category. Despite being a pluralised nom de plume, illuminati hotties is a creative outlet for Tudzin, the self-proclaimed burrito-aficionado. Having roped

Frank Turner – Be More Kind

“I should have been more kind. It is my fate. To find this out, but find it out too late”- Clive James It is with this quote that prolific British singer-songwriter Frank Turner, has drawn influence for his seventh studio record “Be More Kind”. It’s a

Food Court – ‘Good Luck’

Aussie four-piece Food Court deliver a delicious slice of fuzzy garage punk with the release of their debut album ‘Good Luck’. Released on Dine Alone Records. Home of Jimmy Eat World, Alexisonfire, The Dirty Nil and more, its great acclaim to be the first Australian band to join the

Boss Keloid – ‘Melted On The Inch’

Wigan quintet Boss Keloid’s latest release, ‘Melted On The Inch’, is an incredibly difficult album to write about. There’s no need to tell you it’s good, because if it wasn’t then it wouldn’t have the Holy Roar Records baby staring at you from its back cover. That logo is

Friday 11 May 2018

Brand New Friend – ‘Seatbelts For Aeroplanes’

The town of Castlerock is perched on the northern coast of Northern Ireland. For the majority of the year, it is battered by winds whipping off the Atlantic Ocean but there are those special days when the sun shines and friends gather to enjoy it’s beach. It