For fans of doom and drone music, the name Dylan Carlson carries a tonne of weight and expectation – and rightly so. Most fans can
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7in & EP Round-up, June 2018 (part 2)
Our lives in Cinema – All Talk EP (Umlaut Records, 2018) This crew are from London, and All Talk is (as far as I can
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The Stayawakes – Dogs and Cats / Living Together (Surefire Discs / badHORROR Recordings / ShoveItUpYourCult Records, 2018)
The Stayawakes are from Southsea, and Dogs And Cats / Living Together is their debut album. They reportedly play “loud, fuzzy indie-punk with poppy melodies,
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Culture Abuse – Bay Dream (Epitaph, 2018)
Ugh. It’s not a good feeling when you start off really properly digging an album and invest yourself in it, and even potentially recommend said
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Maniac – Dead Dance Club (Dirt Cult / Hovercraft, 2018)
LA’s Maniac (i.e. the four piece band, not LA’s premier individual maniac, whoever that may be, although I’m sure many vie for such a lauded
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Die Hoffnung – Elegies and Creation Songs (Belladonna Records, 2017)
Die Hoffnung were from Gainesville, Florida, and this is as far as I can tell something of a posthumous release. The band featured members of
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7in & EP Round-up, June 2018 (part 1)
Dark/Light – s/t (Dirt Cult, 2018) Portland, Oregon’s Drak/Light (which is apparently pronounced as Dark Slash Light) describe themselves as ‘cold weather music for combating
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Morrow – Fallow (Alerta Antifascista / Halo of Flies 2018)
For those that don’t know (I counted myself amongst this number until several months ago), Morrow is a DIY emo-crust/ melodic crust punk band from
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Comrades / Thrash Can house show, Clearwater FL (May 2018)
Comrades / Thrash Can / The Antidon’ts / Scumbag Billionaires Saturday, May 19th 2018 A House, Clearwater, FL Some people have the impression that to
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Future Girls – Motivation Problems (Dirt Cult, 2018)
Future Girls are from Halifax, Nova Scotia. They started out in 2015 as a song writing outlet for Matty Grace (of Fat Stupids, Weekend Dads).
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