Don Blake – Anti-Charisma Wholesale 12in EP (Brassneck Records / Bloated Kat, 2020) Woohoo! Greater Manchester’s Don Blake are back with a new EP on
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Unknown River Driver / Rations Noise – Remains / Dronestruck split LP (Different Kitchen Records / Rad Girlfriend Records / 86’d Records)
Alrighty then. A split LP from two bands I’ve no prior knowledge of whatsoever. Rations Noise is an electronic offshoot of a punk band called
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Affected Youth – Formative Years (self-released, 2019)
Affected Youth are a punk rock band from Galway, in Ireland. In the band’s own words: We play a lot of different styles and fuck
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Youth Killed It – What’s So Great, Britain? (Rude Records, 2018)
Now then. I was kind of intrigued by these guys based upon something about the press material for this Norfolk based crew (for whom What’s
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April 7in & EP round-up (part 2)
itoldyouiwouldeatyou –Get Terrified 7in (Alcopop Records / Failure By Design, 2018) ITYIWEY are described as a “UK indie-punk / emo collective”, and they are from
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This Is Not A Drill – Hysteria / Hypocrisy / Lies (self-released, 2017)
Lee from This Is Not A Drill hit me up on what my parents would no doubt refer to as ‘The Facebook’ the other day
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Girls in Synthesis – Suburban Hell EP (Blank Editions, 2017)
I got approached out of the blue over this one, and asked to review it by John from the band. I obviously agreed to it,
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Bad Breeding – Divide (La Vida Es un Mus, 2017)
Bad Breeding are based out of Stevenage, Hertfordshire. I’ve never been, but I can imagine it’s pretty grim, particularly after having listened to this opus,
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Drunken Sailor Records (Stoke) – an introduction, part 1
Bon soir, mon petit pois (as a French fellow might address his vegetables of an evening). This is part one of an introductory feature on
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