2017 - Apathy & Exhaustion

Booji Boys – s/t LP (Drunken Sailor Records, 2017)

First off, this has got to be a hot contender for one of the best records of 2017, and we’ve barely even got started yet.

Technically, this is a semi-reprint of the original review from last year when our dude Mike at Dead Broke Rekerds originally put this out stateside.

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

There was a time when A Fire Inside, or AFI as they are more commonly known, actually had a fire inside, and were a band

If there is one thing we can be almost certain of, 2016 was the precursor to the impending apocalypse. It also seems likely that 2017

OK, OK. Yes, here I go again. Another Polyvinyl album. I can hear you already: “But Clara, we know you are a sycophantic Polyvinyl fangirl.

So I hear about Pijn and they get compared to a few bands that make me prick my ears up, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai,

For a lot of people on this side of the pond, I can see the Dropkick Murphys being something of a secret guilty pleasure. Myself,