Now then. After an inauspicious return to reviewing “relatively current” releases, and the first one of 2020 with Beach Slang’s disappointing (on many levels) recent
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7in & EP round-up November 2019
Mystery Girl – Heartbreaker 7in EP (Brain Slash Records, 2019) The more astute of you lot out there may remember me reviewing the last joint
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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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Radar State – Strays (Disconnect Disconnect / Wiretap Records, 2019)
Tony’s known me long enough to know that I am a massive fan of The Get Up Kids, so I wasn’t at all surprised when
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Sweet Jonny – s/t (self-released, 2018)
Sweet Jonny contacted me through Facebook sometime ago for a review of their s/t album. Apologies to Sweet Jonny – it’s taken me a good
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Neighborhood Brats – Claw Marks (Dirt Cult Records, 2018)
First of all, many apologies to Chris at Dirt Cult and to Neighborhood Brats that this has taken so long. Sometimes real life gets in
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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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Four Fists – 6666 (Doomtree, 2018)
During the 2000s, Apathy & Exhaustion’s tireless editor Tony was the co-owner of Roadkill Records, a punk shop haven located in a part of Manchester
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The Living End – Wunderbar (BMG / Rise Records, 2018)
Music at its best is supposed to evoke something in you. Maybe it’s something as simple as liking the sound of someone’s voice. Maybe the
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Art Thieves – Russian Rats (State Line Records, 2018)
My transatlantic (transatlantean?) buddy Mark Lind has been talking up the buzz on Art Thieves for quite some time now, and threatening to unleash the
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