Toronto Blessings – Asleep (self-released) My dude from back home in Barnsley, Rik Whitehead, hit me up a few weeks ago to tell me about
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Escape Elliott – Everything Here Is Make Believe (Engineer Records, 2019)
Well. Not really sure what I was supposed to make of this to be honest. It’s er… something? This crew are from a range of
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Lagwagon – Railer (Fat Wreck Chords, 2019)
Where to start? I fucking love Lagwagon, me. Pretty unfashionable to like Lagwagon these days, right? Which is something the band themselves made a joke
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Warm Needles – Don’t Tell Me How To Live EP / No Friends, No Enemies EP (Different Kitchen Records / Crapoulet / Tour Van Records, 2019)
I’m counting myself lucky enough to have received a copy of this hoss right here from my dude at Different Kitchen Records. This is a
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Cereal Killer – The Beginning & End of Cereal Killer (Drunken Sailor Records, 2019)
Fuck me. This is nuts. Off the chain, rabid dog nuts, mate. Like, wowee zowee. It’s great. Where the hell does Juice find these bands?
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Booji Boys – Tube Reducer (Drunken Sailor Records, 2019)
I’ll start out by apologising to Juice Drunken Sailor for apocalyptic level of delay in getting this review out there. I’d like to say I’d
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Russian Circles – Blood Year (Sargent House, 2019)
Russian Circles have been around ever since post metal blew up in the mid-00s, sitting proudly alongside the likes of Isis, Cult of Luna and
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Lingua Ignota – Caligula (Profound Lore, 2019)
Once in a while, you come across an album that completely takes you by surprise. It might be that the musicianship is breath-taking, the sound
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Geist – Swarming Season (Cursed Monk Records, 2019)
It has been a while since A&E has been blessed by my scornful musings. I’d like to say I’d spent the hiatus pursuing my own
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Statues on Fire – Living in Darkness (Snubbed Records, 2019)
Living in the Darkness is the third album by Brazilian melodic punk band Statues on Fire. “This record is a MUST HAVE for fans of
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