Fuzzy and infectious second from the best named band in whatever genre Donovan Wolfington are right now. I can’t think of many bands hailing from New Orleans, and even if I could, Donovan Wolfington would probably be better than them. The Louisiana natives caused ripples within their respective field with the release of DIY debut Stop… Read More Donovan Wolfington – How To Treat The Ones You Love (Review)
Emphatic and emotionally savage return to the scene from ex-Gallows vocalist. It’s very good to hear Frank Carter playing heavy music again, very good indeed. When Carter left Gallows in 2011 to pursue a different route it appeared that he’d perhaps turned away from the unbridled aggression that had helped to carry Gallows so far… Read More Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – Blossom (Review)
It doesn’t feel like very long since I sat down to review post-hardcore quintet Being As An Ocean’s second record How We Both Wondrously Perish, and I realise that it hasn’t actually been too long since I did so. Fourteen months have passed to be precise, and not knowing a whole lot about what’s involved… Read More Being As An Ocean – Being As An Ocean (Self-Titled) [Review]
‘I might not be as dark as I think’ Sorority Noise vocalist Cameron Boucher sings midway through the sixth track on the bands second record. Art School Wannabe, the song in question, is upbeat and oddly carefree, and the line feels a little off given that it follows Your Soft Blood, which is undoubtedly the… Read More Sorority Noise – Joy, Departed (Review)
Prior to finding myself enthralled by Pale Horses I’d never actually taken the time to listen to mewithoutYou, and the band’s latest release served as quite the introduction. Sure, I’d heard mentions, and read the odd news feature on absolutepunk here and there, but the Philadelphia five-piece had always remained a musical enigma I’d unconsciously… Read More mewithoutYou – Pale Horses (Review)
As was the case last year, Four Year Strong have new music out for the Summer, and I’ve come to find that there’s rarely a better time to listen to the Massachusetts four piece. 2014’s Go Down In History was an EP well catered for the season, and its following self-titled release picks up where… Read More Four Year Strong – Four Year Strong (Self-Titled) [Review]
Ten years in, it isn’t always necessary for an artist to grow with each release, but it helps. As a long time fan of Rolo Tomassi it’s a pleasure to see one of the UK’s most compelling bands continue to do so with fourth record Grievances, a release which further pushes boundaries and defines the… Read More Rolo Tomassi – Grievances (Review)
If their eponymous last record wasn’t enough proof already, the Gallows of the 2010’s are not the same Gallows that released Orchestra Of Wolves or Grey Britain, and if I wasn’t a huge fan of both those records I wouldn’t even mention them in this review. I have to though, because after a masterpiece like… Read More Gallows – Desolation Sounds (Review)
Before sitting down to write this review of Sheffield-based band While She Sleep’s second full-length LP Brainwashed I wracked my brain and tried to think of a strictly metal release that I’ve listened to more over the last few years than the bands first, 2012’s This Is The Six. I couldn’t, and that should immediately… Read More While She Sleeps – Brainwashed (Review)
With 2013 EP The Thoughts That Weigh Me Down Berkshire-based four-piece Hindsights sounded like a band on the verge of big things indeed. Across the five tracks on show there was a Hell of a lot of promise, jammed in alongside thoughtful lyrics and ambitious hooks. On its follow-up, and the band’s debut full-length, Cold… Read More Hindsights – Cold Walls / Cloudy Eyes (Review)
I should start this rambling review by making it fairly clear that I’ve never really been into Title Fight, and I’ll admit that I’m not sure why the band are as popular as they are. I’ve listened to their discography; I bought Shed in a record store in Amsterdam and have only listened to it… Read More Title Fight – Hyperview (Review)
I think it says a lot about Enter Shikari’s music that, four full-lengths and a few compilation releases in, the St. Albans four-piece remain potentially the most exciting band in British music. The same hype that preceded the release of debut Take To The Skies has shown no signs of wavering over the years, and… Read More Enter Shikari – The Mindsweep (Review)
In a recent interview with Billboard Fall Out Boy bassist / lyricist Pete Wentz stated of the bands aims that “We need to be relevant to pop culture, which means we need to be played on the radio” and listening to his bands sixth LP you very much get that feeling. Over the last fifteen… Read More Fall Out Boy – American Beauty / American Psycho (Album Review)
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)
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]
Before sitting down to listen to Carry On The Grudge, the long-awaited third album by Wimbledon born troubadour (and personal here of mine) Jamie T I thought about where I was five years ago, seeing as there’s been a five-year gap between his releases. I was 15 when I first listened to Panic Prevention, and… Read More Jamie T – Carry On The Grudge (Review)
Very few bands have been able to build themselves a reputation as solid as Marmozets have preceding the release of their debut album. The West Yorkshire five-piece made one hell of a mark with chaotic second EP Vexed and from there have only gone from strength to strength, and should continue to do so with… Read More Marmozets – The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets (Review)
I’m moving down to University this weekend, so I wanted to put together another submissions post before doing so, just so I don’t end up a few weeks behind whenever I settle in. Moving south shouldn’t change too much on here, and I’ll still be posting fairly regularly, so if you’d like to send anything… Read More Music Submissions 13: Bad Luck / Twin Cities / Russell and the Wolf Choir / Past Haunts / The Electrets / The Big Forgive / Drift Wood Miracle / The Great Heights Band
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