The Baltimore band return from hiatus with hands up and arms out, and I return from my own hiatus to write about it. I should start here by saying that this music blog wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for Have Mercy. Let’s cast our minds back. It’s 2013, and I’m taking a gap year between… Read More Have Mercy – Self-Titled (EP Review)
50) Vagabon – Fear & Force 49) Lucy Rose – Floral Dresses (feat. The Staves) 48) Moses Sumney – Doomed 47) Smidley – Pink Gallo 46) Vasudeva – Take Away 45) Mount Eerie – Ravens 44) Glassjaw – shira 43) Eisley – Defeatist 42) Have Mercy – Drive 41) Adult Mom – Patience 40) At… Read More My Favourite Songs of 2017 (With Playlist)
Released: October Genre: Rock / Emo Metacritic Rating: N/A CRM Rating: 9/10 There were plenty of reasons why Baltimore’s Have Mercy scored my AOTY for 2013, and a lot of those reasons exist on its follow-up, which claims spot No.7 this time around. The main… Read More Top 10 of 2014, Number 7: Have Mercy – A Place Of Our Own
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)
I figured I’d do something different this week and cover a bunch of songs that premiered over the last few days. It made for an interesting change to write about about and maybe I’ll do this kind of stuff more often, maybe not. A lot of my views come through search engines, so I doubt… Read More New Song Reviews – 28/01/2014 (The Cape Race, The Used, Chiodos, Have Mercy, The Hotelier)
Released: May Genre: Rock / Emo Metacritic Rating: N/A I’ve made a lot of tough decisions this year, but choosing my favourite record of 2013 was blissfully easy. In a year in which I finished college and found myself at a troubling crossroads in my life The Earth Pushed Back was… Read More Top 20 of 2013, Number 1: Have Mercy – The Earth Pushed Back
It’s always cool when music is used to help out a charity. In this case, the money raised from ‘September 4-Way Split’, released by Big Footprint Records is in aid of The Boys & Girls Club Of America, a charity I’m unfamiliar with being a Brit. But still, it’s a good split for a good… Read More Big Footprint Records – September 4-Way Split (Review)
I remember listening to ‘On The Impossible Past’ by The Menzingers in July last year and being instantly struck by how completely brilliant a record it was. I was on holiday in Germany, and that album was the soundtrack to my entire trip, and the soundtrack to many days since. I listened to ‘The Earth… Read More Have Mercy – The Earth Pushed Back (Review)
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