The Phosphorus Bombs – Blank Slates (2018) Sydney’s Phosphorus Bombs are following up last year’s debut full length, Cancers with a new 5 track EP.
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The Pretty Flowers – Why Trains Crash (Dirt Cult Records, 2018)
The Pretty Flowers hail from Los Angeles, and are made up of members of a whole raft of bands I’ve never heard of because I’m
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Drowse – Cold Air (The Flenser, 2018)
What would we do without The Flenser? They continue to put out album after album of unique music, the vast majority of it is flawless
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Hard Feelings – Sideways, (Dirt Cult Records / Lost Cat Records, 2018)
Hard Feelings are comin’ at ya from Duluth, Minnesota. Sideways is their sophomore album, following on from their debut effort, Swell after a gap of
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The Interrupters – Fight The Good Fight (Hellcat Records, 2018)
For some reason I’ve always looked on Hellcat Records as massively hit and miss, not to mention the first port of call for the super
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Slumb Party – Happy Now (Drunken Sailor Records, 2018)
Wow. I’m almost speechless. What the actual fuck IS this? I mean, what’s going on? This sounds like the Easter Bunny being bludgeoned to death
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The Walking Dead Orchestra – Resurrect (Unique Leader Records, 2018)
The latest release from French tech-death metallers, The Walking Dead Orchestra, is a re-release of their album “Resurrect”. Most stuff labelled “tech death metal” never
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Wess Meets West – A Light Within The Fracture (Hassle Records, 2018)
Wess Meets West are an instrumental four-piece hailing from New Haven, Connecticut – their press release shirks the use of the term “post-rock”, which I
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Dark Thoughts – At Work (Drunken Sailor Records, 2018)
It seems like so long ago now that I reviewed the first Dark Thoughts LP (also released through Drunken Sailor – you can read the
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Astpai –True Capacity (Jump Start Records / Shield Recordings, 2018)
Astpai is a name I’ve been hearing for a good few years now. They are yet another example of a band I didn’t get around
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