To be honest, I’m feeling a bit confused. This feels like one of those albums I’m supposed to like, but oddly I just don’t get
Read moreBat Boy – Couldn’t Keep Up 7in (Asian Man Records, 2017)
Bat Boy is another new band on Asian Man Records featuring someone from Spraynard – in this case Jake. He is joined by Cory (from
Read moreCheap Whine – s/t LP (Drunken Sailor Records, 2017)
Wow. I’ve been pretty blown away by this record. I’d somehow managed to ignore that in their native Montreal, these guys are considered to be
Read moreBig Nothing – s/t 7in (Asian Man Records, 2017)
From the aching opening lines of Cincinnati, “It takes everything that I’ve got not to cry, when I’m lying awake at night and I’m remembering
Read moreIncisions – Quit Now EP (Horn & Hoof, 2017)
Incisions are from the Greater Manchester area (plus Northwich) and play a mélange of 80’s hardcore, street punk, and EpiFat influenced stuff. And it is
Read moreDanny 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
Read moreSheer Mag – Need to Feel Your Love (Static Shock Records, 2017)
Sheer Mag have apparently ‘crept up from Philadelphia cloaked in bold insignia to channel our social and political moment with grit and groove’ and ‘speak
Read moreDon Blake – Blake District (Round Dog Records, 2017)
Don Blake hail from Bolton, Lancashire, and are the latest in a line of bands Joe Barlow has been involved with, that are named after
Read moreTio Rico – Business & Pleasure (Horn & Hoof, 2017)
Tio Rico are a 3 piece from Manchester (ex Big Ed & The Stink / Glue Ear / Echo Freddy) and Business & Pleasure is
Read morePinkerton Thugs – End of an Era (re-mastered re-issue) (State Line Records, 2017)
Although this record was originally released way back in 2000 via Go Kart (remember them? And those sampler CDs of variable quality that they used
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