It’s been a good year for British singer-songwriters thus far. As I sit down to type this Ed Sheeran has just announced that X has sold 182,000 copies in its opening week – the highest first week sales of 2014 six months in. Granted, Lewis Watson’s first album won’t sell as many copies upon release,… Read More Lewis Watson – The Morning (Review)
Mosey Jones – Spinning (EP) After two years away Spinning marks the return of Brooklyn-based trio Mosey Jones, and given how good it is it’s probably good to have them back. The band play a style of emo / indie-rock 90’s style, and although their nostalgic blend isn’t entirely unique the four tracks that make up their… Read More Music Submissions 9: Mosey Jones / dressmaker / Distorted Harmony / Left In The Wake / Nurture & Antpile / Dr. Lakata
I want to start posting to this blog more often, so that’s what I intend to do. So far I’ve posted nothing but reviews, and these reviews do take me a while to put together, meaning it limits me to two or three posts a week, which I’d like to improve on. I like to… Read More Music I’ve Been Listening To (26/06)
I’m a huge Ed Sheeran fan, and I love the guy for a number of reasons. One of those reasons, and the one which is least relevant to this review is that since the release of + back in 2011 he’s made being ginger almost socially acceptable again. I can’t remember the last time someone… Read More Ed Sheeran – X (Review)
Very few bands, if any, do it as well as Every Time I Die, and even fewer do it this well seven records into their career. Over the last fifteen years the Buffalo band have released incredible record after incredible record, and the trend unsurprisingly continues with From Parts Unknown, which is easily up there… Read More Every Time I Die – From Parts Unknown (Review)
I haven’t got around to putting one of these posts together for a month now, so apologies for that, but in that time there’s been a lot of stuff sent in, some of which I’ve written about below. If you want to send something my way then please feel free using the means on my… Read More Music Submissions 8: GRYSCL / Musique Le Pop / Seth Paul Macchi / Kaninchen / Pissghetti / Everybody Looks Famous
Outbound were the first band to ever contact me in regards to a review, so I guess this is relatively long overdue. The band hail from Massachusetts, and the play a passionate mix of pop-punk and rock, with a few indie elements thrown in for good measure, and they generally play it pretty damn well. I liked… Read More Outbound – Suite 10 (Review)
Linkin Park are a proper rock band again. It’s okay, let out a sigh of relief; nobody’s going to blame you for being apprehensive during the build-up to The Hunting Party, a record the band have openly described as ‘heavy’ numerous times pre-release. They were right, mostly, because the bands sixth studio album sounds like… Read More Linkin Park – The Hunting Party (Review)
When Candy Hearts released EP The Best Ways To Disappear back in 2012 it seemed like they were on the verge of becoming the genres next ‘big’ band, and over the past two years they’ve generally kept that notion alive. When the band released I Miss You, the lead single from their newest record a few… Read More Candy Hearts – All The Ways You Let Me Down (Review)
So, it’s been a year, and although that doesn’t seem like a big enough deal to write about it does to me, because I suck when it comes to a commitment that involves any real ‘work’ on my end. Unless it’s a commitment to watch all of Sons Of Anarchy in two weeks, or a… Read More A Year Of CraigReviewsMusic – Some Thoughts
The hype surrounding a new Say Anything record has become more hopeful trepidation over the years, and it’s understandable as to why. When the second record you release is likely to always be the high point of your career those that follow seem to fall short in comparison. …Is A Real Boy was, and still… Read More Say Anything – Hebrews (Review)
27 years, 27 years, only thing I know, the only thing I get told I’ve gotta sell out if I wanna get sold, I don’t want the devil to be taking my soul. I write songs that come from the heart, I don’t give a fuck if they get into the chart or not. Only… Read More Passenger – Whispers (Review)
I first listened to The Algorithm (project of French producer Rémi Gallego) around a year ago, when Daniel P. Carter played Handshake during the middle of the day as part of Radio 1’s Rock Week. I remember Carter describing it beforehand as a crazy piece of crossover music, or something along those lines. I can’t… Read More The Algorithm – Octopus4 (Review)
I’ll listen to pretty much anything with Frank Turner’s name on it. He could play two seconds of the triangle on a twenty-minute track and I’d likely lap it up. I was a latecomer to the long-gone Million Dead, finding them long after their split after discovering Turner’s solo material, but I loved what I… Read More Möngöl Hörde – Möngöl Hörde (Self-Titled) [Review]
When three of the five members of Tigers Jaw announced last March that they’d be leaving the band it raised a few doubts amongst fans about where the band would go from there and what the future would hold. That future is now, with Charmer, a record which features all five members and was recorded… Read More Tigers Jaw – Charmer (Review)
When Eyes & Nines dropped four years ago I was a lowly paper boy, wandering around my neighbourhood at six in the morning before school with a trolley full of newspapers and my iPod. I hated how mundane the task was, but music helped keep it interesting, if not bearable. I mention this strange bit… Read More Trash Talk – No Peace (Review)
I used to read Kerrang a lot as a kid, and I vaguely remember a cover feature they ran one week pitting the UK music scene against the US equivalent. I didn’t really care for it at the time, and I care for it even less now, but I know some publications are still somewhat fixated… Read More Sam Russo / Brendan Kelly – Split The Tip (Review)
It’s always a shame to see any talented band call it quits but it’s a guaranteed eventuality, and you can only hope that a band do enough in their time together to make it all worthwhile. If Tawny Peaks hadn’t already with their excellent self-titled debut then they do on its follow-up In Silver River,… Read More Tawny Peaks – In Silver River (Review)
Here are five more albums or EPs I received this week and wanted to write about. I finally got my act together enough to learn how to embed Bandcamp players so hopefully that makes it easier to listen to the music sent in, and sorry I’ve been using hyperlinks for the past year – my… Read More Music Submissions 7: Lobby Boxer / Blind Mice / Daggers / Manian & The Monumentals / If This Is A Man
I should really start this review by saying that Forgettable is anything but. It’s a cheap and clichéd line, but I wanted to get it out of the way as soon as possible. Sorry, let’s move past it. Chances are you’ll already be familiar with a few of the members that make up Sorority Noise,… Read More Sorority Noise – Forgettable (Review)
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