If you’ve spent five minutes or more browsing this site you’ve likely learnt that I have a great deal of love for Baltimore’s Have Mercy. Last year’s emphatic debut The Earth Pushed Back was the first album I reviewed, and I went on to name that record my favourite of 2013, by some distance,… Read More Have Mercy – A Place Of Our Own (Review)
How much can you gather from an album cover? The latest record from English singer-songwriter Forgot Where We Were tells you a lot before you’ve even hit play on what could likely be one of the most engaging releases of 2014. Picking it up you’re faced by a shrouded Howard, a man caught between light… Read More Ben Howard – I Forget Where We Were (Review)
About three weeks ago I moved down to Chichester for University, leaving Blackburn and my gap year behind. Although I’m yet to be really swamped by Uni work it seems like an unfortunate inevitability, and for this reason things might begin to slow down where this blog is concerned. Since arriving I’ve posted a few… Read More A Quick Update & A Crappy Poem
Moose Blood’s rise to the forefront of the UK emo / punk scene has been rapid, beginning early last year with the bands excellent debut EP Moving Home. From here the band released a split with the equally excellent Departures, toured with Funeral For A Friend, and signed to US label No Sleep Records, home… Read More Moose Blood – I’ll Keep You In Mind, From Time To Time (Review)
In the build-up to the release of their fourth album Lower Than Atlantis released a short, ten minute documentary (watch here) through their YouTube account, as some artists do, and I watched it, because I had a bad feeling about the record based on a few of its singles, and I wanted an explanation. I… Read More Lower Than Atlantis – Lower Than Atlantis (Self-Titled) [Review]
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