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From Monday 28 June 2021

GUEST PLAYLIST: Miss Vincent

Punk rock outsiders Miss Vincent are a band on the rise, one who oozes heart on their sleeve honesty and aim to bring romance back to rock music. Delving into the challenges of aging, and how it affects relationships and the world around them, their latest single ‘Gravity’ is

Saturday 26 June 2021

Pom Pom Squad – ‘Death Of A Cheerleader’

Here’s a quick concept – The McGurk effect is a perceptual phenomenon that creates an illusion where one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound (thanks Wikipedia). It would be like seeing a dog meow but hearing a

Friday 25 June 2021

Free Throw – ‘Piecing It Together’

Having the usual album release-tour cycle put on hold, Free Throw have used their time to write for themselves rather than worrying about their position in the never-ending music rat race. ‘Piecing It Together’ is certainly an apt title for the Nashville quintet’s fourth album. In the past, Cory Castro

Thursday 24 June 2021

Amenra – ‘De Doorn’

How do you begin to review a band like Amenra? To talk about them in the usual terms of instrumentation and production, lyrics and arrangements; it just feels reductive, like trying to write a haiku about the Old Testament. The true Amenra experience is equal parts religious ritual and

Download Pilot 2021: A reflection

Who would have thought a mere four weeks ago that before the end of June 10,000 of us would be standing in our Doc Martens and wellies in the rain, arms around one another, screaming along to our favourite songs?

Beartooth – ‘Below’

For the past nine years, Beartooth have been tearing stages and eardrums apart with their brand of metallic tinged post-hardcore, fusing big riffs with even bigger choruses. Now arrives their fourth record, ‘Below’, written in part during the lockdown period the world has experienced with the COVID-19 pandemic. Known

Wednesday 23 June 2021

CRASHFACE – HEAVY INFECTIOUS

Kicking off in early 2020, London-based duo CRASHFACE were born in hard times, to say the least. Their debut EP ‘HEAVY INFECTIOUS’ is a reflection on the trials and tribulations the past year presented, with bassist Otto Balfour describing it as “the journal we used to frantically

Drug Church – ‘Tawny’

Can you spare 10 minutes? You’re busy, of course. You’ve got your main job, your evening job, your hobby that Instagram has convinced you to turn into a side-hustle. You’ve got a social life – when you can fit it in – and then somewhere among all that you

Thursday 17 June 2021

Tigercub – ‘As Blue As Indigo’

Catchy albums are great; they pull you in from the very first listen and demand to be played on repeat until you simply can’t stand it anymore. And there’s the crux of it. They always, pretty much without fail, become kind of intolerable after a while. The

Wednesday 16 June 2021

Interview: The Housebound Ska Collective

When the UK went into lockdown in early 2020, people kept themselves busy (and sane) in all sorts of different ways. Some people took the opportunity to work on their fitness, some started making sourdough and banana bread, and others got really into plants. Like, maybe a little too