EP Review – Page 38

You're browsing the archives

From Sunday 24 April 2016

The Shapers – ‘Reckless Youth’

Hailing from Toulouse in the south of France, three piece band The Shapers are here with some solid pop-punk nostalgia in the form of their latest EP ‘Reckless Youth’ and are a fun example of the recent trend of continental punk bands gaining some UK traction (see, for example,

Thursday 21 April 2016

Fierce Morgan – ‘Misanthropy’

Sheffield quartet Fierce Morgan are that increasingly rare beast, a melodic punk rock band with something to say beyond “that guy/girl hurt my feelings”. Their latest EP, ‘Misanthropy’, sets a commentary on the socioeconomic impact of austerity on UK industry and the knock-on effects of that deprivation on the

Thursday 14 April 2016

Donnie Willow – ‘Inhale. Exhale.’

‘Inhale. Exhale.’ is not only the title of this debut mini-album but also a good reminder of what you need to keep doing as you listen. Thanks to the many dynamic changes, genre shifts and surprises lurking within these seven tracks, Glasgow-based Donnie Willow are so captivating that it’s

Tuesday 12 April 2016

The People The Poet – ‘Paradise Closed’

With an opening song called ‘Happy Being Miserable’, you’d be forgiven for expecting a gloomy, downtrodden effort from Wales’ The People The Poet with their new EP ‘Paradise Closed’. Instead, the aforementioned track is an upbeat, two fingers up to the current culture of dissatisfaction with a racing guitar

Monday 11 April 2016

Girl Nowhere – ‘Dead End’

As a bitter and twisted, so-called millennial, there are few things that provide a glimmer of hope more, among a constant barrage of awful news headlines and graphic images on the TV, than a group of people still playing a bunch of cool and exciting music. Girl Nowhere, a young

Friday 08 April 2016

Cheap Meat – ‘The Parts That Show’

Cheap Meat know their stuff. If there’s one immediate notion from a few run-throughs of their introductory effort, ‘The Parts That Show’, it’s one of geekiness. It’s perhaps unsurprising from a band that met at a pub quiz led by a former Coronation Street star, presumably bonding over the

Thursday 07 April 2016

Create To Inspire – ‘Home Is Where My Heart Dies’

Sounding like the bastard love child of Beartooth, Palm Reader and letlive., Create To Inspire achieve a feat that many bands of their type struggle so much with – the balance of melody and aggression. On this four-track EP, titled ‘Home Is Where My Heart

Monday 04 April 2016

Useless Eaters – ‘Temporary Mutilation’

We could spend days arguing the toss as to what defines a punk band. Some say it’s a sound, others say its an attitude, yet in reality it is both. The accompanying press release for ‘Temporary Mutilation’ states that Useless Eaters are less concerned with punk as a sound,

Once Upon A Dead Man – ‘Concepts and Phenomena’

Here’s a question for you: how does Charlie Simpson split his time between four different musical projects? Not content with being the frontman of Fightstar and a solo artist, as well as being back in the ever popular boyband Busted, this man has now gone on to form a

Wednesday 30 March 2016

As the Sun Sleeps – ‘Never Stars’

‘Never Stars’ is a passable but uninspiring three-song EP that sounds desperately like it wants to trade the UK for the glorious sunshine of Florida. It’s inoffensive but unlikely to be anything more than background party music. ‘Digging Deep’ opens proceedings and, frankly, there’s not much to separate it from