The term, ‘lo-fi’ is banded about quite a lot and, sometimes is just a euphemistic synonym for ‘shite’. I can think of a few records,
Read moreBeach Slang – The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City (Bridge Nine, 2020)
People who have been keeping the faith with the ramblings on this piece of shit website will be no stranger to the fact that I
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 moreThe Get Up Kids – Problems (Polyvinyl, 2019)
OK. I have to own up that I’m slightly biased as I love The Get Up Kids. Like, really love them. ‘Something to Write Home
Read moreAntarctigo Vespucci – Love in the Time of E-Mail (Polyvinyl / Big Scary Monsters, 2018)
Slackaholic Jeff Rosenstock is back with yet another album, inspiringly justifying his generally dishevelled look. This time it’s Love in the Time of E-Mail, a
Read morePhantastic Ferniture – Phantastic Ferniture (Polyvinyl, 2018)
I recently got this album but it took me a little while to listen to it. I soon realised I had been missing out: it
Read moreBeach Slang – Everything Matters But No One Is Listening [Quiet Slang] (Polyvinyl / Big Scary Monsters, 2018)
I mentioned in my review of the We Were Babies & We Were Dirtbags [Quiet Slang] 7in last year that I was a relatively late comer to
Read moreJeff Rosenstock – POST- (Quote Unquote / Polyvinyl, 2018)
In her non-review this time last year of Jeff Rosenstock’s WORRY, my friend and Ibiza-Bombing associate Em wrote of her concerns as she found herself
Read moreBest 7in / EPs of 2017: Tony
Following on from the post the other day of my top ten LPs of 2017… 10. (joint) Acrylics – Structure / Gluttony 7in (Drunken Sailor
Read moreBeach Slang – We Were Babies & We Were Dirtbags [Quiet Slang] (Polyvinyl, 2017)
Admittedly, I was something of a late adopter of Beach Slang’s music. As I noted in my review of their second full length, A Loud
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