London-based avant-garde alternative rock band Death & The Penguin apparently take their name from a work of post-soviet satire by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov. Already
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7in & EP Round-up August 2018 part 1
Goodbye Blue Monday – Misery Punk Ruined My Life EP (Make-That-A-Take Records, 2018) Goodbye Blue Monday hail from bonny Scotland, and this 3 song EP
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Fair Do’s – Leopards (Lockjaw Records, 2018)
I’ve heard a fair amount about Fair Do’s over the last few years or so, and the way I hear it, these guys are pretty
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Stringer – My Bad (Wiretap Records, 2018)
Stringer are from Brooklyn, NYC and apparently used to be known a Heeney. Motherfucker, either way I am no wiser. Intrepid reviewer and writer extraordinaire
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Dollar Signs – This Will Haunt Me (A-F Records, 2018)
Holy sheeeeeee-it. This one has come totally outta the left field and grabbed my ass. I was not expecting this. Particularly from A-F Records, whose
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7in & EP Round-up, July 2018 (part 2)
Chain Whip – s/t 7in (Dirt Cult Records /Neon Taste Records, 2018) Oh-ho-ho yeah!!! Holy shit. This rips, mate. Dirt Cult Records do it again,
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Mom Jeans – Puppy Love (Counter Intuitive Records / Big Scary Monsters, 2018)
As the truest measure possible of how irreversibly un-cool I’ve become, now that I’m a proper adult with a kid and everything, I was totally
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Dog Party – Hit & Run (Brat, 2018)
Wow. It seems like only yesterday that Dog Party dropped their fifth album, Til You’re Mine on Asian Man Records. In reality it’s what… almost
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The Human Project – Clarion Call (self-released, 2018)
The Human Project have been on the periphery of my radar for some time now. However, as can often be the case, I hadn’t gotten
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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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