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)
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)
I shouldn’t need to tell you how good The Black Keys are. Normally I’d start a review by commenting on an artist’s past successes and the present results of those successes. That doesn’t seem necessary here; you’ve likely listened to The Black Keys before and chances are you enjoyed it, and although Turn Blue is… Read More The Black Keys – Turn Blue (Review)
I haven’t posted much over the past week, mainly because I finally got around to buying Assassins Creed: Black Flag (I know it took me a while) and then spent the week living as a pirate. Anyway, here’s some brief write-ups of music I was sent and wanted to feature. If you’d like to send… Read More Music Submissions 6: Monterey / Euryale / EdTang & The Chops / Bateman / The Chewers / Chasing Dragons
Bury Tomorrow have become a force to reckon with over the last few years since the release of second album The Union Of Crowns, a record that placed them well and truly at the front of the British metalcore scene, leading to a number of highly successful tours and putting the band on everyone’s radar.… Read More Bury Tomorrow – Runes (Review)
Very few releases have made a mark on the melodic hardcore scene over the past few years in the way that 2012’s Dear G-d did, putting Being As An Ocean on everyone’s radar regardless of whether they wanted them there or not. After a few line-up changes How We Both Wondrously Perish marks the bands… Read More Being As An Ocean – How We Both Wondrously Perish (Review)
A few more pieces of music that’ve made their way to me over the past two weeks that I wanted to feature. If you’d like to send anything for consideration there are a few ways to do so via my contact page. No Tide – Daydream (EP) I’ve covered a few Take This To… Read More Music Submissions 5: No Tide / Select All Delete Save As / Shellshock Lullaby / Whose Hearts Were His
Transient is an EP born out of frustration with the world surrounding the musicians that created it, and vocalist Dorian Cooke said that the EP was given this name because every time the band tried to find structure and comfort in one location of their lives it transcended to a feeling of discontent and longing… Read More Battleghost – Transient (Review)
There’s a brilliant stereotype to pop-punk that exists in 90% of releases from the genre. You get similar themes, with a similar sound, with the same bummed out dude on vocals. Not that any of that’s a bad thing of course, and when you go into a record that openly labels itself pop-punk chances are… Read More Northbound – Death Of A Slug (Review)
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