Wow. Just wow. I bloody love discovering new bands that are this great. Props to Disillusioned Wayne (that’s what I’m calling you from now on
Read moreFollow Your Dreams – The Half Life of Teaspoons (TNS Records, 2020)
Follow Your Dreams are from Manchester, and are formed from the ashes of the now defunct Rising Strike. Their singer / vocalist Kaz is apparently
Read more7in and EP round-up (January 2020)
Legend has it that this blog / webzine was regularly updated back in the day. I want this piece to serve as a return to
Read moreSecret Smoker – Dark Clouds (Belladonna Records, 2019)
Secret Smoker are from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dark Clouds is their second LP, which follows their debut, Terminal Architecture, which was released via Protagonist /
Read moreAmerican Football – LP3 Review (Polyvinyl/Big Scary Monsters, 2019)
Aside from their first release in 1999, I’ve not really listened to American Football that much as they always felt like the ‘much softer side’
Read moreOctober 2018 7in & EP round-up (part 2)
Mean Caesar – s/t 12in (Little Rocket Records, 2018) Mean Caesar hail from South East London and feature members of a ton of bands (46
Read moreDeath & 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
Read more7in & EP Round-up, July 2018 (part 2)
Chain Whip – s/t 7in (Dirt Cult Records /Neon Taste Records, 2018) Oh-ho-ho yeah!!! Holy shit. This rips, mate. Dirt Cult Records do it again,
Read moreApril 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
Read moreBurrowing – s/t (self-released, 2017)
Sometimes you know people for years, don’t really speak to them for a while, and in the intermittent period, you somehow forget quite how talented
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