People that pay attention to good good shit may recall that I reviewed Hakan – II some time back, when it came out via Drunken
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Columna – Las Cosas Que Perdemos (Dirt Cult Records / Last Hour Records / Sabotage Records 2018)
As people the world over no doubt know, and rightly sneer at us for, we in the UK are terrible for not being bilingual, let
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Personality Cult – s/t LP (Drunken Sailor Records, 2018)
Personality Cult is the new project of one Ben Carr of Natural Causes. These guys are from North Carolina, and there’s another three of them
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Death & The Penguin – Anomie (self-released, 2018)
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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Acrylics – Structure / Gluttony (Drunken Sailor Records / Iron Lung, 2017)
This crew from Santa Rosa, California have what strikes me as a relentless, dark take on the ever influential US hardcore sound of the early
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Less Art – Strangled Light (self-released, 2017)
‘Strangled Light’ is the debut album by Less Art, a band made up of people who were previously in popular bands (quote from the accompanying
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Danny Cleaver – Trapped Nerve (Grievous Angles, 2017)
I’ve only really been aware of Danny Cleaver in his capacity as the artist/cartoonist Wolf Mask! To be honest I had no idea his name
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v/a – They Came From Boston vol. 1 (State Line Records, 2017)
What we got here is what amounts to a 4-way split LP between some perhaps not so well known bands from the current Boston punk
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Meat Wave – The Incessant (Sideonedummy Records, 2017)
Now then. We’ve had this one in for review for a short while now, but… it’s only just come out. Wow. This record really is
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