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Faux – ‘Inhale’

It’s been a pretty cool few weeks for home-grown music. You only need to look at a review of 2000 Trees or Truck Festival to see that, while 2016 is shaping up to be a fairly terrible year otherwise, relatively unknown British bands are coming to the forefront

Friday 22 July 2016

Patriot Rebel – ‘Cynics Playground’

You may expect a band with the name Patriot Rebel to hail from one of the southern states of the USA and to have grown up on a steady diet of classic American rock and metal. And although they come from Nottingham rather than Nashville, they emphatically

Monday 18 July 2016

Masked Intruder – ‘Love and Other Crimes’

Just when you thought it was safe to fall in love again, those heartwarming bandits in Masked Intruder are at it again. ‘Love and Other Crimes’ is their latest attempt to steal your heart (and your wallet) with their particular brand of infectious pop-punk ballads. Once regarded by some

Chapter and Verse – ‘The Wolves Back Home’

They may be rather fresh-faced, but London’s Chapter and Verse are determined to hit the scene with a snarling ferocity that’s mostly seen in veterans. They’re out to prove that they’re serious contenders with something to say in the alt-rock world, and they do just that with the glossy-edged

Pretty Little Enemy – ‘Bitch, Please!’

‘Bitch, Please!’, the debut EP from Minehead alt-metallers Pretty Little Enemy, is an interesting case of a rarely-exercised nostalgia: that for indie-label British nu-metal. From the band’s rock-night-at-your-local-community-hall aesthetic to the one-finger chugga-chugga downtuned riffs, everything about PLE suggests a band who had themselves cryogenically frozen mid-song in 2002, and were recently

Wednesday 13 July 2016

Emp!re – ‘Our Simple Truths’

‘Our Simple Truths’ is very much a continuation of Emp!re’s last release, mini-album ‘Where The World Begins’. The simplistic but bouncy rock riffs still form the main backbone of the instrumentation, occasionally veering towards a slightly more prog, Coheed & Cambria sound, rather than straightforward rock. Emp!re’s main strength has

Friday 08 July 2016

Shot Of Hornets – ‘Make Out A Picture’

It’s certainly a debut EP to be proud of. Considering North Wales’ Shot of Hornets have been playing together for less than a year, their first release as a band, ‘Make Out A Picture’, is impressive and a solid slice of huge, noisy alternative rock. With such erratic guitars and

Friday 01 July 2016

Twin Heart – ‘Progress: Decline’

Kilmarnock’s not exactly known for its musical prowess. Okay, so that Scottish band might be from there but otherwise it’s more well known for its connections with Robert Burns (you know, the ‘Auld Lang Syne’ poet) and a fairly terrible football team. It comes as a surprise then that

Thursday 30 June 2016

Youth Man – ‘Wax’

Turn your head to the whirlwind of political unrest and many shocking England performances in the Euros. Instead – listen to Brummie punks Youth Man, their loads better than all that other stuff! Combining 80’s era classic hardcore and some of the grittiest UK punk in recent times. The

Monday 27 June 2016

False Advertising – ‘Brainless’

False Advertising are one of those bands you wished you had caught when they first started out. Listening to ‘Brainless’ today though, and last year’s self-titled debut LP, there’s no part of me that isn’t happy to have them in my life. This is a thoroughly satisfying blast of