I’ll admit that when A Social State first got in touch with me just over four months ago and I saw that they were from Scranton, Pennsylvania my mind immediately went straight to The Office (US). I can’t imagine a scenario in which I’d hear / read the name and not immediately picture Steve Carrell… Read More A Social State – How To Get To Heaven (Review)
I’m going away for two weeks in a few days so I wanted to put another submissions post together to avoid falling even further behind when I return home sunburnt and jet-lagged, both of which are pretty much guarantees. If you’d like to send anything over for consideration when I do get back then please feel… Read More Music Submissions 12: Kyle Cox / Heavyweights / dæphne / Azwel / Cans / Brokehead / Nepotism / Alexeï Kawolski / James McKean and the Blueberry Moon
2014 has been a pretty good year for Scottish music, or at least looks to be. During the last eight months or so Fatherson have released potentially the year’s best debut record, with the likes of Lonely The Brave and The Xcerts yet to release highly anticipated albums during the next four months. Things are… Read More Twin Atlantic – Great Divide (Review)
In a genre which seems to be evolving and branching out by the year husband and wife duo Keith and Cathy Latinen, also known as Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate), have been an ever reliable constant. Over the last eight years they’ve been consistently releasing music, the high point of which was (and… Read More Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) – You Will Eventually Be Forgotten (Review)
After a debut release as utterly brilliant as Now, Voyager three years is a fair amount of time to wait for a follow-up, but after some doubts about whether it would ever see the light of day Home, Truths , the first full-length from Manchester band The Cape Race is well worth the wait, living… Read More The Cape Race – Home, Truths (Review)
Around this time two weeks ago, shortly after posting my review of Basement’s Further Sky EP my half-decade old laptop inexplicably died, and remains dead, sitting on my bookcase waiting for a quick eBay sale after a hard drive wipe. Thankfully I keep all of my music safely backed up on an external hard drive,… Read More Music I’ve Been Listening To (10/08)
The Gaslight Anthem aren’t one of those bands who constantly need to alter their sound massively in order to stay relevant. They probably never will be, but frontman Brian Fallon’s interviews during the build-up to the bands fifth studio album Get Hurt suggested that the band were branching out, trying some extensive new things and exploring their… Read More The Gaslight Anthem – Get Hurt (Review)
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